Education: Reference Sources

Offers 100 chapters written by leading experts in the field that highlight the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates facing educators today.

Provides information on bilingual education and related topics. Explores the subject from multiple perspectives: its history, policy, classroom practice, instructional design, and research bases.

Presents the most recent theories, research, terms, concepts, ideas, and histories on educational leadership and school administration as taught in preparation programs and practiced in schools and colleges today.

Provides an overview and an explanation of the major topics in the field of educational psychology, including topics in categories such as human learning and development (across the life span), motivation, measurement and statistics, and curriculum and teaching.

Comprehensive guide to the field of school psychology featuring the latest research on school learning, motivation, and educational assessment. Entries on psychology, education and counseling, child development, and special education address student success, behavior disorders, intelligence testing, learning disabilities, strategies to improve academic skills, and more.

A comprehensive resource that features school psychology, neuropsychology, reviews of new tests and curricula that have been developed in the past decade, and new biographies of important figures in special education. Addresses issues of importance ranging from theory to practice and is a critical reference for researchers as well as those working in the special education field.

Provides an introduction to the social and cultural foundations of education. This area of education reflects many of the conflicts, tensions, and forces in American society, focusing on issues such as race, gender, socioeconomic class, the impact of technology on learning, what it means to be educated, and the role of teaching and learning in a societal context.

Topics include biographies of significant national and regional leaders and reformers, important ideas, events, institutions, agencies and trends that helped to shape American policies and perceptions regarding education.