Month: February 2020

Book Review | Mira Debs’s Diverse Families, Desirable Schools by Katie Dulaney

Book details: Debs, M. (2019). Diverse Families, Desirable Schools: Public Montessori in the Era of School Choice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. Hardcover, 240 pages, $30.49 Mira Debs’ recent book, Diverse Families, Desirable Schools (2019), is a welcome addition to the small but growing field of Montessori research (Marshall, 2017). Debs, who currently serves as

AJE Feature | Explaining the Worldwide Expansion of Early Childhood Care and Education by Christine Min Wotipka

Full-length article “The Worldwide Expansion of Early Childhood Care and Education, 1985–2010” by Wotipka, Rabling, Sugawara, and Tongliemnak published by the American Journal of Education available here. It is hard to imagine a time when the value of early childhood care and education would be questioned. But in 1979, a World Bank working paper argued that “preschool

Professional Development for Educational Leaders on Integrating Technology into Classrooms Part V by Diane H. Zack

Educational leaders have a professional responsibility to provide focused professional development to support teachers learning to create engaging lessons and curricula that incorporate technology and 21st Century Skills.  The following is the last of a five-part series designed to provide educational leaders insights on the content, structure, and strategies necessary to support teachers learning to integrate technology into their curriculum. Part