James P. Comer's Books

Child by Child

The Comer Process for Change in Education

By: James P. Comer

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Child by Child

The Comer Process for Change in Education

By: James P. Comer

In this new book, the editors from the best-selling volume Rallying the Whole Village (1996), move beyond theory to present powerful, day-to-day experiences of change in school communities. Community members, business leaders, school board members, superintendents, principals, teachers, and parents across the country share their experiences as they have tried to create school communities in which all adults help young people develop and learn. The professional development activities described in this book will help prepare preservice and in-service teachers, administrators, and parents to do the kind of collaborative diagnostic and problem-solving work that has been so successful in transforming schools across the country.

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Teachers College Press

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ISBN 10

0807738689

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9780807738689

Dynamic Instructional Leadership to Support Student Learning and Development

The Field Guide to Comer Schools in Action

By: Edward T. Joyner,Michael Ben-Avie,James P. Comer

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The Field Guide to Comer Schools in Action

By: Edward T. Joyner,Michael Ben-Avie,James P. Comer

With its comprehensive framework, this guide offers instruction that will help all children grow and develop along the pathways that support success both in school and in life.

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288

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Corwin Press

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1412905133

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9781412905138

Teach

A Question of Teaching

By: James W. Fraser

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Teach

A Question of Teaching

By: James W. Fraser

Is teaching for me? Who will I teach? How can I make a difference? Teach is a vibrant and engaging Introduction to Education textbook, organized around real questions students ask themselves and their professors as they consider a career in teaching. Using vivid and contemporary examples, veteran teacher educator James W. Fraser continually encourages readers to reflect on their experiences and engage in a dialogue about the most current issues in education. The thoroughly updated third edition includes fully rewritten chapters, including one discussing the current debates about classroom discussions of race and sexuality and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on schools and another on today’s newest technologies and their impact on teachers and schools. In each chapter, newly selected primary source readings provide students with the latest in education-related scholarship and integrates the intellectual foundations of education throughout each chapter, offering scholarly and current content in a student-friendly format. Features and updates include: • In a new, thoroughly revised and up-to-date but also much more compact version, the third edition of the popular Teach textbook for basic courses in a teacher education program invites aspiring teachers and the simply curious to ponder many of the most essential questions of what a career in teaching might look like in the next decades of the 21st century. • Up-to-date coverage of new legislation and school policies that impact teachers including debates about discussions on race and Critical Race Theory, sexuality and the importance of LGBTQ+ history and current rights that influence curricula, school policies, and teachers' free-speech rights, with particular emphasis on the declining role of the Common Core State Standards. • A completely rewritten Chapter 8 offers an up-to-the-minute overview of how technology can help improve and challenge teachers and teaching. • Features such as “Teachable Moment” and “Notes from the Field” encourage readers—through a variety of prompts and exercises—to reflect on their own educational experiences and goals, and challenge prospective teachers to imagine themselves in similar situations. • Short chapters and digestible sections provide an approach and format to reach students without compromising on high-quality content. • The concluding chapter explores the question, “Where do I go from here?” to help prospective teachers develop a plan for their career and design a personal philosophy to guide them. Teach presents an overview of the field in a way sure to keep students reading and gives those with questions about teaching the tools and information they need to continue a rich dialogue about their possible careers.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000778339

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9781000778335

Leave No Child Behind

Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's World

By: James Comer

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Leave No Child Behind

Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's World

By: James Comer

The call-to-arms to “leave no child behind” in America has become popularly associated with the Bush administration’s education plan—a plan that actually diverges greatly from the ideals of the Children’s Defense Fund, which originated the concept. Here, in a bold and engaging new book, Dr. James Comer reclaims this now-famous exhortation as a tool for positive and substantive change. Far removed from the federal government’s focus on standardized testing as the panacea for our educational ills, Dr. Comer’s argument—drawn from his own experiences as the creator of the School Development Program—urges teachers, policymakers, and parents alike to work toward creating a new kind of school environment. In so doing, Dr. Comer reignites a crucial debate as he details the evolution and many successes of his School Development Program since its inception thirty-five years ago, and he illustrates how his model for change has proven effective in public schools throughout the country. Most important, he offers proof that students from all backgrounds can learn at a high level, adopt positive behavioral attitudes, and prepare for a fulfilling adult life, if they learn in schools that provide adequate support for their complete development--schools that know that leaving no child behind should be much more than just a convenient political slogan.

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348

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Yale University Press

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0300133421

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9780300133424

What I Learned In School

Reflections on Race, Child Development, and School Reform

By: James P. Comer

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What I Learned In School

Reflections on Race, Child Development, and School Reform

By: James P. Comer

From the Winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2007 "In the world of education reform, where silver-bullet ideas, ideologies, and intellectual fashion clamor for influence, James Comer's thinking has long been a sea of calm, balanced, and humane wisdom focused on the needs of the whole person. Reading Comer you see the incompleteness of so many other approaches to reform, as well as learn an integrated approach to making schools work. And now, here it all is in a single book. If you want to see how schools can actually work, as opposed to affiliate with a prior belief about how they should work, this is a must read." —Claude Steele,professor, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University "The best introduction?professional and personal—to the remarkable world of James Comer: physician-educator, par excellence." —Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts "James Comer is a rare constellation among social scientists: a great intellect, a keen analyst, a creative problem-solver and a man of enormous empathy. His writings are required reading for anyone interested in education reform or improving the odds for poor children." —Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO, Harlem Children's Zone

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194

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470541660

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9780470541661

The Thoughtful Teacher

Making Connections with a Diverse Student Population

By: James D. Kirylo

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The Thoughtful Teacher

Making Connections with a Diverse Student Population

By: James D. Kirylo

A thoughtful teacher is one who works to foster an inspiring classroom environment where students fall in love with learning. Indeed, it is incumbent on the teacher to understand self, to be prepared, to possess command of subject matter, to teach in a developmentally appropriate manner, to mindfully incorporate culturally relevant practices, and to illuminate a sense of connection with a diverse student population. In that light, The Thoughtful Teacher: Making Connections with a Diverse Student Population highlights the critical importance of what it means to thoughtfully teach, emphasizing that a central aspect toward transformation in education is through the dedicated efforts of thoughtful teachers. Written in accessible language and making clear the important connection between theory and practice, this book is an informative text for teachers, teacher educators, school administrators, and those who have an interest in education.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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147585529X

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9781475855296

Teaching with Purpose

An Inquiry into the Who, Why, And How We Teach

By: James D. Kirylo

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Teaching with Purpose

An Inquiry into the Who, Why, And How We Teach

By: James D. Kirylo

For five days a week for approximately nine months out of the year totaling countless hours, teachers work with other people’s most treasured gifts—their children. That the teacher is the most important element in fostering an energetic, engaging, and inspiring classroom environment where authentic learning can unfold cannot be overstated. Indeed, it is the teacher who understands self or does not; it is the teacher who is prepared or is not; it is the teacher who has command of subject matter or does not; it is the teacher who inculcates in an appropriate way or does not; and, it is the teacher who is patient, understanding, empathetic, and enthusiastic or is not. To that end, Teaching With Purpose underscores what it means to be an insightful teacher, foundationally emphasizing that the central aspect toward richly transforming education is through the professionalization of what it means to be a teacher. Written in accessible language, and attentive to connecting theory to practice, the benefits and features of this book are mindful of a diverse readership.

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205

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475812957

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9781475812954

The Voice of the People

Public Opinion and Democracy

By: James S. Fishkin

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The Voice of the People

Public Opinion and Democracy

By: James S. Fishkin

Philosopher and political scientist James Fishkin evaluates modern democratic practices, explains how the voice of the people has struggled to make itself heard in the past and combines a review of ideas and experiments--including his own idea for a National Issues Convention that was adapted by PBS in January 1996--to legitimately rediscover the people's voice.

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270

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Yale University Press

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0300072554

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9780300072556

Fundamentals of Conservation Biology

By: Malcolm L. Hunter, Jr.,James P. Gibbs

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Fundamentals of Conservation Biology

By: Malcolm L. Hunter, Jr.,James P. Gibbs

In the new edition of this highly successful book, Malcolm Hunter and new co-author James Gibbs offer a thorough introduction to the fascinating and important field of conservation biology, focusing on what can be done to maintain biodiversity through management of ecosystems and populations. Starting with a succinct look at conservation and biodiversity, this book progresses to contend with some of the subject's most complex topics, such as mass extinctions, ecosystem degradation, and over exploitation. Discusses social, political, and economic aspects of conservation biology. Thoroughly revised with over six hundred new references and web links to many of the organizations involved in conservation biology, striking photographs and maps. Artwork from the book is available to instructors online at www.blackwellpublishing.com/hunter and by request on CD-ROM.

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515

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John Wiley & Sons

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140513545X

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9781405135450

Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education

By: James A. Banks

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Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education

By: James A. Banks

Presents research and statistics, case studies and best practices, policies and programs at pre- and post-secondary levels. Prebub price $535.00 valid to 21.07.12, then $595.00.

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SAGE

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1412981522

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9781412981521

Waiting for a Miracle

Why Schools Can't Solve Our Problems--and how We Can

By: James P. Comer

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Waiting for a Miracle

Why Schools Can't Solve Our Problems--and how We Can

By: James P. Comer

It is the thesis of this provocative book that the deteriorating state of America's public school system is actually a reflection of the problems in our culture and society. In "Waiting For A Miracle," James P. Comer M.D., Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale University Child Study Center and the author of Maggie's American Dream, and co-author of Raising Black Children, outlines the cause of these afflictions and presents an inspiring paradigm for a new way of thinking and acting with regard to children and family.At the root of the problem, he states, is a social failure to make a commitment to families, and to community and child development.Using many examples from his personal experience of growing up poor, and from more than thirty years of community involvement, Comer argues that schools can be the most important instrument of change in a society. He spells out how private, public and non-profit sectors can collaborate to enable children, families, and communities to survive and thrive.

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Plume Books

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0452276462

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9780452276468

What I Learned In School

Reflections on Race, Child Development, and School Reform

By: James P. Comer

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Reflections on Race, Child Development, and School Reform

By: James P. Comer

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Jossey-Bass

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0470407719

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9780470407714

An Introduction to Multicultural Education

By: James A. Banks

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An Introduction to Multicultural Education

By: James A. Banks

Cultural Diversity and Education" is designed to help pre-service and in-service educators clarify the philosophical and definitional issues related to pluralistic education, derive a clarified philosophical position, design and implement effective teaching strategies that reflect ethnic and cultural diversity, and prepare sound guidelines for multicultural programs and practices. Provides teachers and administrators with a succinct, yet comprehensive, overview of multicultural education and what it means for classroom teaching. Strong emphasis on curriculum and reform. "For pre-service and in-service school teachers.

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Allyn & Bacon

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0205341020

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9780205341023

Leave No Child Behind

Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's World

By: James P. Comer,Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)

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Leave No Child Behind

Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's World

By: James P. Comer,Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)

Annotation The concept "leave no child behind" has become popularly associated with the Bush administration's education plan, but Comer contends that it actually diverges greatly from the ideals of the Children's Defense Fund, which originated the concept.

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Yale University Press

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0300109679

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9780300109672

Dynamic Instructional Leadership to Support Student Learning and Development

The Field Guide to Comer Schools in Action

By: Edward T. Joyner,Michael Ben-Avie,James P. Comer

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Dynamic Instructional Leadership to Support Student Learning and Development

The Field Guide to Comer Schools in Action

By: Edward T. Joyner,Michael Ben-Avie,James P. Comer

With its comprehensive framework, this guide offers instruction that will help all children grow and develop along the pathways that support success both in school and in life.

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Corwin Press

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1412905133

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Waiting for a Miracle

Why Schools Can't Solve Our Problems--and how We Can

By: James P. Comer

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Why Schools Can't Solve Our Problems--and how We Can

By: James P. Comer

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Book's by James P. Comer

Child by Child

Child by Child

Dynamic Instructional Leadership to Support Student Learning and Development

Dynamic Instructional Leadership to Support Student Learning and Development

Teach

Teach

Leave No Child Behind

Leave No Child Behind

What I Learned In School

What I Learned In School

The Thoughtful Teacher

The Thoughtful Teacher

Teaching with Purpose

Teaching with Purpose

The Voice of the People

The Voice of the People

Fundamentals of Conservation Biology

Fundamentals of Conservation Biology

Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education

Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education

Waiting for a Miracle

Waiting for a Miracle

What I Learned In School

What I Learned In School

An Introduction to Multicultural Education

An Introduction to Multicultural Education

Leave No Child Behind

Leave No Child Behind

Dynamic Instructional Leadership to Support Student Learning and Development

Dynamic Instructional Leadership to Support Student Learning and Development

Waiting for a Miracle

Waiting for a Miracle

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