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Teaching history should not be reciting an endless list of dead men, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, Breaking Away from the Textbook offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with humanity's issues, and innovative ways to show students the relevance of the past to the world today. Simply put, this book makes world history fun. Soon, your students will be busy debating, thinking, applying, and learning about information that will stay with them for a lifetime. The key to this wonderful work is its incorporation of various disciplines including art, music, and writing to create a fun and active classroom. Volume 1 covers prehistory to the Renaissance and volume 2 covers the Enlightenment to the 20th century. Includes pictures and drawings, appendices, indexes, maps, and a bibliography. Appropriate for all grade levels. ... Read more

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Filled with ideas for the college classroom
Vol. 2 of Pahl's series covers 1600 to the present.See Vol. 1 for his earlier treatment.This book suggests activities, written assignments, and group activities for world history courses.As such it does a very good job.It takes the same dozen or so activities (quick write, pair share, poster power, talk show hosts, etc.) and applies to the Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, Bolivar and Latin America, and many other topics.The professor can easily find something that appeals to him or her, and try it out.

The book also tries to give a very short history of some of the major events, but this can be found in many other books, as well, and it is understandably sketchy and sadly eurocentric.

Here is one interesting suggestion of the author: Protest Song - create a protest song "focused on the working and living conditions of the poor workers during the industrial revolution" (p. 79).

Recommended.

Breaking Away from the Textbook Vol. II
This is a decent book for world history teachers.It is a bit small for the price and several of the activities are repeated over and over again.I will be able to use it with my classes, but not as much as I had hoped to. ... Read more

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''One of the basic lessons of the Southern civil rights movement is that you cannot predict what spark will light a fire.''
-- From the Foreword by Charles E. Cobb Jr., senior writer and diplomatic correspondent for allAfrica.com

''One of the guiding principles has to be that we cannot lead a struggle that involves masses of people without identifying with the people and without getting people to understand what their potentials are, what their strengths are.''
--Ella Baker, Advisor, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

The self-conscious use of education as an instrument of liberation among African Americans is exactly as old as education among African Americans. This dynamic anthology is about those forms of education intended to help people think more critically about the social forces shaping their lives and think more confidently about their ability to react against those forces. Featuring articles by educator-activists, this collection explores the largely forgotten history of attempts by African Americans to use education as a tool of collective liberation. Together these articles explore the variety of forms those attempts have taken, from the shadow of slavery to the contradictions of hip-hop. Contributors address ''Lessons from the Past'' and discuss Citizenship Schools in the South, Ella Baker and the Harlem Y, Mississippi Freedom Schools, and Black Panther Liberation Schools. Contemporary models are covered as well, demonstrating the depth and tenacity of the tradition in such efforts as the Freedom Schools established by the Children s Defense Fund. ... Read more

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Learning to Teach Geography in the Secondary School will provide insight into the practices used by student teachers of geography in the UK.Included in this text are designs of lesson plans as well as advice on designing and implimenting plans of your own. ... Read more

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This guide to taxation theory and practice addresses the issues of fair taxation, the Government's tax-cutting claims, where the poll tax went wrong, whether taxes can be used to influence people's behaviour, and what are the taxes of the future? The book raises fundamental questions about the nature of tax and deals with such topical issues as the Government's Budget, taxation and the EEC, and "green" taxation. Also by the author is the book, "Allied Dunbar Money Guides: Tax of the Self-employed". ... Read more

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Accurate instruction about American Indian people has been woefully inadequate to date. This guide will enable the school library media specialist to help teachers and students teach and learn about American Indian people, history, culture, and contemporary issues in ways that are authentic, accurate, and appropriate. It provides accurate information, recommends appropriate resources, and offers guidelines for selection of instructional materials and activities, plus model lessons for teaching in appropriate and culturally sensitive ways. This invaluable resource is designed to fit into existing classes and curriculum patterns and is both practical and thought-provoking. ... Read more

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Geography teachers and school library media specialists will find this resource indispensable for providing classroom lessons and activities in critical thinking for geography students in grades 7-12. It is filled with over 75 primary source Internet sites covering such topics as Places and Regions, Physical Systems, Human Systems, Environment and Society, and the Uses of Geography, and will be an invaluable tool in helping teachers and librarians meet the standards set forth in the 1994 publication Geography for Life: National Geography Standards. ... Read more

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The first new casebook in more than ten years, it contains twenty current cases that present real classroom dilemmas English teachers are likely to encounter in today's classroom. The casebook is designed to help new and experienced English teachers become thoughtful and reflective practitioners who are well equipped to deal with complex and current problems.A grades and issues matrix identifies each case according to middle or high school grade level and indicates the issue(s) on which they focus. Twenty current cases represent real teaching dilemmas with no easy solutions so teachers can benefit from thinking through the dilemmas and developing possible solutions and consequences with other teachers. Focus questions and discussion questions accompany each case.For new and experienced English teachers. ... Read more

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Developed as a tool to help you integrate various forms of media, Seeing & Believing offers a practical approach to basic theory in media literacy and the analysis of both still and moving images. ... Read more

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Illuminating!
This book has completely changed the way I view the art of teaching.My students now enjoy coming to class, they pay attention, they come every day, ready to learn.Ellen Krueger hits a homerun with this brilliant text!I guarantee you will never look at the media OR the classroom the same way.5 out of 5! ... Read more

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One day in 1698, Robert Pyle of Pennsylvania decided to buy a black slave. The next night he dreamed of a steep ladder to heaven that he felt he could not climb because he carried a black pot. In the dream, a man told him the ladder was the light of Jesus Christ and would bear any whose faith held strong; otherwise, the climber would fall. Pyle woke that morning positive that he should eschew slaves and slavery, having equated the pot with the slave he wished to buy. In fact, so acutely did this dream awaken him to his sins that he became a dynamic advocate of liberation. This dream literally changed his outlook and his life.

Teach Me Dreams delves into the dream world of ordinary Americans and finds that as their self-perception increased, transforming them on a personal level, so did a revolutionary spirit that wrought momentous political changes. Mechal Sobel considers dreams recorded in the life narratives of 100 people, revealing the America of the Revolutionary Era to have been a truly dream-infused culture in which analysis of dreams was encouraged, and subsequent personal reevaluation was striking. Sobel uses a wealth of information--letters, diaries, and over 200 published autobiographies from a wide range of "ordinary" people; black, white, male, female. In these accounts, many previously neglected by historians, dreamers explain how their nighttime adventures opened their eyes to aspects of themselves, or unveiled new paths they should take both personally and politically. Such paths often led them to challenge those in power.

Charting the widely dreamed of opposition between blacks and whites, men and women, Sobel offers astounding new insights into how early Americans understood their lives. Her analysis of the dreams and lives of ordinary Revolutionary-Era people demonstrates links between dreaming, self reevaluation, and participation in the radically changing politics of the time. This book will appeal to specialists in the fields of American and African-American history, and anyone interested in dreams and self-development.Amazon.com Review
The theme of this study is encapsulated in the startling coverillustration, an 18th-century folk painting of a white Virginianembracing a black woman while another thrashes a black man with a stick. Mechal Sobel,history professor at the University of Haifa, analyzes 200 letters,diaries, and autobiographies from the America of 1740 to 1840, more than half ofwhich describe dreams and visions. Observing that "Today the acceptance ofan inner consciousness of self is so widely taken for granted that it ishard to realize how modern this development is," Sobel sees in the dreams aprogression from passive to active, and he places the awakening of individualself-awareness during this period. The impetus for this development sheattributes to "opposition to an enemy other." Blacks and whites regardedeach other as alien, the "enemy other," a concept reinforced by frictionbetween men and women as they struggled with rigid gender expectations. Theraw sociological material given is fascinating, the background well drawn,the statistics enlightening: for example, of the 2.6 million population ofthe Colonies in 1774, half a million were black. The material is viewedthrough a narrow lens, however, with all social conflicts given either aracial or gender-oriented interpretation. Dreams are prominent in thenative cultures of the Americas, Africa, and Australia. One of thecontributions of this study is the recognition that Anglo-Americans alsoturned to them for an understanding of their lives. Teach Me Dreamsis an original and valuable addition to the rich literature on both historyand dream analysis. --John Stevenson ... Read more

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In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
This is a difficult book.People will find it repetitive and others will find it narrowily sourced.Yet the book offers an important account of a change of transcendent importance.People have often talked about the rise of modern individualism in the prologue and aftermath of the American revolution.Sobel, however, offers a much more radical thesis.What the years from 1740 to 1840 saw was the rise of a radical new sense of SELF.Previous our inner persona had been passive and communal.People often went through lives believing they did not have choices.But in the triumph of the American revolution and the rise of a new market society, the self became ostentatiously active and individualist.The very concept that we use to see ourselves is a relatively recent invention. (pp. 3-7) Sobel's specific contribution is to examine dreams.Recent research on dreams suggests that elements of dream correlate with the amount that one is individualist.Studies of dreams in Nazi Germany suggest that people started supported the Nazis in their dreams before they supported them consciously. (p. 10)At the time Sobel's study begins dreams were of particular importance to people as signs or portents, though by the end of our period they were viewed as comparatively unimportant.

The rise of the self is not the unmitigated triumph of individualist freedom.Quite the contrary, for concepts of the self are often defined in hostility, and increasingly hatred of the abstracted, reified "Other."Increasingly many whites viewed themselves in opposition to blacks.Yet at the same time blackface reflected the envy of proletarianized whites for what they saw as the laziness and abandon of African-Americans.(p. 97)Blacks in turn often viewed whites with hatred, yet had to keep their opinions to themselves for fear of violent retaliation. Meanwhile men faced the struggles of increasing dependence by emphasizing their own individuality while idealizing women and children (pp. 160-63).The costs of these idealizations was to deny women part of their sexuality (p. 225), to depoliticize them as part of the politicization of public life.At the same time men were placed in a peculiar new emotional world:on the one hand the more "emotional" style of African-Americans seeped into evangelical religious practices.On the other hand, crying, once an expected mark of masculine true emotion in the eighteenth century, was now seen as a sign of effeminate weakness (p. 142).As a consequence modernity is built upon a sense of otherness that is based on racial and gender inequality.

A very important hypothesis, with many stimulating implications.I would like to point out some demurrals.Sobel's work is based on roughly two hundred dream memoirs which, while impressive, is only a fraction of the American population.Moreover, this sample is often tilted to the minority of evangelicals and relatively small religious sects which concentrated on the production of such works.Similar problems of proportion arises from the somewhat untypical women Sobel studies who wrote down their paths to individuality.Much of Sobel's chapter on whites images of slaves deals with the even smaller minority of Quakers who were able to reject slavery and achieve a certain sense of empathy and maturity.This account does not deal so much with the many whites in the North who rarely if ever saw blacks and yet relatively little qualms in supporting slavery.Back in the sixties Orlando Patterson criticized James Baldwin in the New Left Review for failing to recognize the strong sense for many Americans that blacks are not existing, the sense of absence from their lives.(A process, of course, encouraged by segregation.)This deserves as much emphasis as the neurotic obsession about the other.More could be said about the economic and social backgroundStill, this is an important work that clearly is deserving of more research.One wonders how E. Roger Ekirch's upcoming history of sleep will deal with this problem.We applaud our capacity for moral choice, yet its origins are afflicted with hatred. ... Read more

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Deals with what Christian Churches are saying now and have said in the past about sex. It provides a basic theological resource for those who want to explore issues around sex and sexuality from a Christian point of view but feel they need to acquire a broader, more informal perspective on the historical background and the contemporary developments ... Read more

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An introduction to the lives of the Ancient Romans, looking at the Roman people, society and psychology. "Key sites" are explored in the landscape and the literature of the civilization, and the book looks at Roman achievements in public works, private comforts, prose, poetry and propaganda. ... Read more

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Ready-to-Go Lesson Plans!
Instant activities and reproducibles on just the topics you teach in social studies‹and just the right amount. These three-panel folders‹with six pages in all‹supplement your textbook and are bursting with background information, ready-to-go activities, and reproducible worksheets that motivate students to read, think, write, and really LEARN important facts and content. Includes charts, graphs, maps, time lines, and more. History comes alive with these teaching foldouts! ... Read more

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Ready-to-Go Lesson Plans!
Instant activities and reproducibles on just the topics you teach in social studies‹and just the right amount. These three-panel folders‹with six pages in all‹supplement your textbook and are bursting with background information, ready-to-go activities, and reproducible worksheets that motivate students to read, think, write, and really LEARN important facts and content. Includes charts, graphs, maps, time lines, and more. History comes alive with these teaching foldouts! ... Read more

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Ready-to-Go Lesson Plans!
Instant activities and reproducibles on just the topics you teach in social studies‹and just the right amount. These three-panel folders‹with six pages in all‹supplement your textbook and are bursting with background information, ready-to-go activities, and reproducible worksheets that motivate students to read, think, write, and really LEARN important facts and content. Includes charts, graphs, maps, time lines, and more. History comes alive with these teaching foldouts! ... Read more

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There was a time when colored school teachers were revered by practically everybody in their communities, both white and colored. Being a colored teacher in the South was a kind of a status. That day extended from its post-slavery beginning to World War I, for a period afterwards, certainly to World War II, and is said to exist in some remote places till today. These respected mentors were predominantly female and taught in public elementary schools where the bulk of southern colored school attendance was concentrated. Traditionally these women were CCCthecream of the colored community,their character without public flaws; dedication to the classroom their faith and religion. They were choice ladies sought after and targeted maritally by a coterie of colored men, many who had not completed the elementary grades, and were low wage earners, whosethangwas to marry one of these women distinguished by their roll books and having principals as immediate bosses.Most of these men were decent, and some loved the women who would elevate them to statures they would never attain otherwise. ... Read more

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Another best seller by Sandra Bowen
Sandra Bowen has entertained some and enlightened others with a view of one segment of African American life as played out during the mid part of the 20th century.Those of us who lived in various southern states during that particular time could bring to memory actual people, places, and events that could easily fit into the fictional individuals she described as we cruised through her descriptive narrative. Ms. Bowen has a talent for handling language and story line in a fashion that stimulates an anticipation of what might be coming next, as well as how this fits into what happened before. This is a page turner, and an eye opening summation of relationships motivated by specific kinds of desires,needs, and unspoken mandates that occurred (and still occur)within the bounds of certain cultural and geographical settings. Within amusing incidents, serious messages are conveyed. Those with an open mind will hear them clearly. If you haven't read "This Day's Madness",the author's other novel,you may want to read that, also. At any rate, either of these novels are perfect for a quiet afternoon of pleasure. You won't be disappointed!

Thoroughly enjoyable
Echoes of the spirit of 'The Color Purple' with a dash of the old pulp murder mysteries thrown in (and i mean that as a compliment).I love books on studies of the racial experience, and this book takes the concept and runs elegantly with it.

Excellant book
Excellant book.I was expecting chic lit, but this is a book that
will interest pretty much anyone.It kept my attention to the last
page. Give it a try, you won't be disappointed.

Original Theme, Style and Characters
In THE CUL-LUD SCH-OOOL TEACH-UR, Sandra Bowen has created not only a terrific story to read, one of those page-turners, but I discovered how much I didn't know about those courageous, early black school teachers.

I was a product of the Black Studies movement at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, and had taught in Mumford High School in Detroit (there was only one white student by the time I got there.)When living in NYC and teaching at the Dalton School, I lived on the edge of Harlem, just south of Columbia University.Thus, I thought I knew a lot, but I didn't.I wish I had read this book years ago and hope that it is finding an important place in education, at all levels today.

What did I like?Bowen's writing style pulled me through the life of Dorothy Borden with ease.I was so captured by her life as a child, her teaching, her three male partners and felt I knew her character.Then all of a sudden she changes on me with new work, Paris and different loves.

It was the same with Johnnye Jamison.I admit to applauding her first poisoning, but then as the mystery continued, and she marries Dorothy's horrible husband, I'm thinking, "Oh, oh, we've got a problem here." I had never hear of a 'black bottle.'

Bowen very carefully develops the characters of these excellent women teachers, attractive, well educated, and very bright in contrast to the men who want to marry them. Some of the men were just fine, but others, like Joe Cephus, used the teachers for their own egotistical needs.

As the character of Joe Cephus moves through the book, the author, little by little brings the reader into an understanding of why he behaves as he does, thus enlightening the difficulties these extraordinary teachers experience.

Racism enters every aspect of the culture, and Bowen spares no secrets in exposing the ugliness of the system.Most of the book takes place in Granston, North Carolina, but readers know what it was and is like wherever they have lived.

Bowen's ability to allow Dorothy Borden to change from the sweet child to battling her husbands and then on to Part II where she is retired and an author utterly fascinates readers.The dialogue style between Dorothy and Jackie as they drive through the streets of Granston, remembering their past lives and teaching experiences, gives the authora chance to present needed information in a unique manner.I'll long remember that delicious Christmas dinner as well as the Sunday dinners.

Thank you Sandra Bowen for writing this valuable book. I can't think of a better way to honor Martin Luther King's birthday than reading THE CUL-LUD SCH-OOOL TEACH-ER.

An excellant read
This is a trip back into time, it is also an introduction to three unforgetable characters.You will meet Joe Cephus Divine, an egomanical police officer and his wives--Dorothy Borden and Johnnye Jamison.They are the teachers he marries and tries to subjugate.He learns, slowly and painfully, that the very qualities and talents which attracted him to them, are their salvation and his very deserved downfall. ... Read more

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black Puerto Rican's struggle out of homelessness ... Read more

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"Homeless Man Turns Life into a Movement." --Chicago Reporter

"an eloquent voice for Americans too often ignored or scapegoated." --Booklist

"Casanova and Blackburn have created an eloquent statement from the trenches of a movement that is still only about a decade old. As more and more people understand the limitations of charity and the necessity of organizing, people like Casanova, who have paved the way for others, will no doubt be regarded as the Malcolms and Martins and Rosas of a new movement." --Real Change ... Read more

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Savvy, comprehensive, and authoritative, this book, written by a physician with more than thirty years' experience caring for elderly patients, assesses the current state and the future prospects of Medicare, perhaps the most influential health-insurance program of our time. Christine K. Cassel draws upon the latest developments in science and medicine in a sweeping analysis of Medicare's social, demographic, institutional, political, and policy contexts. Writing in accessible language, using case studies to illustrate how policies translate to everyday lives, and applying lessons from the practice of geriatric medicine, Cassel makes a powerful argument for reforming and modernizing Medicare. She offers a new vision of what healthy aging could be and delineates what is needed to realize this vision, including changes in the medical sector, in the policy arena, and in our cultural beliefs about aging.
Cassel sheds light on a wide range of issues pertaining to Medicare, including debates about coverage and the looming deficit in the Medicare trust fund. Perhaps the most controversial issue she addresses is the challenge of rationing some kinds of care. Anchoring her discussion of Medicare in the idea that care for the elderly represents a social contract between government and its citizens, Cassel describes both the principles and potential of a progressive approach to geriatric medicine. She further argues that with this approach, we can also address the chronic problems of our larger health-care system and provide all Americans, no matter what their age, with high-quality and affordable medical care.
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A MUST READ !!
A veteran frontline Geriatric physician ,Dr Christine Casell has given a clear incisive description of the role of geriatric medicine in managing Medicare patients and what it can teach the US health care system.She also shows how politics has complicated a non partisan issue such as Medicare compromising the care of millions of vulnerable elders.
She does compliment a few systems (most of them integrated )such as the VA, Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente in the way they coordinate care for the frail elderly.
It is a must read for all those policy wonks and politicians in Washington as well as those who influence policyin the AMA,AARP and the AGS.
Even though the book was written in 2005 most of her recommendations have yet to be accepted by Medicare in 2010.
It is also a wake up call for all Geriatric Medicine fellowship directors to revamp the way fellows are taught
As a frontline geriatric physician running a geriatric interdisciplinary team myself for over 20 years the care this nation provides our vulnerable seniors is fragmented ,costly and fraught with significant quality issues.
The back cover has glowing tributes written by Drs Berwick(CMS) and Halvorson (Kaiser)
It has been 5 years since the book was written and I hope the present health care crisis creates an impetus for Medicare and other Health care Insurance companies to implement her well thought out recommendations sooner rather than later ... Read more

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Is knowledge power? In Teach the Nation, Anne-Elizabeth Murdy explores the history and contradictions in the notion that education and literacy are vital means for improving social and political status in the US.

By closely examining the rapidly shifting social context of education, and the emerging literature by and for African-American women during the 1890s, Murdy proves that the histories of education and literature are deeply connected and argues that their current lives must be regarded as mutually dependent.

Teach the Nation offers a new understanding of literacy and pedagogical study and identifies how literary history enhances current feminist and anti-racist teachings. By excavating notions about education in the 1890s-as turbulent a time for American public education as today-Murdy asks readers to step back from this historical moment to better understand the contexts and institutions within which we theorize learning and teaching. In doing so, she compels readers to reimagine the potential for gaining social power through education and literature. ... Read more

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Despite many powerful visions of how technology can improve teaching and learning, the use of computers in schools continues to be limited. This in-depth study of a computer-using school analyzes the relationships among teachers’ knowledge, their ongoing learning, school organizational culture, and policy to understand how the school developed high-quality use of computers. The author traces the experiences of five teachers in a large public high school who have all used technology to augment core elements of their teaching, with particular attention to the use of computers for constructivist teaching.

Features: Provides real-life examples of teachers who are successfully using technology · Demonstrates a solution to the problem of how to "get teachers to use computers in the classroom." · Shows how teaching and learning must be at the center of computer use, helping new and established teachers develop creative ways to enhance curriculum with technology · Examines how the policies, structure, and culture of a school can support teachers who are learning new practices. ... Read more

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Powering Up by Eileen Coppola
Dr. Coppola's enlightening book on how good teachers in a high school use technology in their classrooms is a must read for anyone interested in teaching with technology, which is so heavily promoted yet insufficiently understood. The author begins with issues raised by her own teaching with technology experience. She then provides lucidand informative reviews of research and theory on technology and education, constructivist teaching, the influence of organizational culture on teaching, and the relationship of these areas to teacher learning. The heart of the book is devoted to her ethnography of the powerful uses of technology by five teachers in a successful high school, and what facilitated their learning to use technology in their classroom practice. She presents the stories of teachers in the following subject areas: physics, humanities, economics, writing, and business.Importantly, Coppola argues that teachers' learning and constructivist use of technology was linked to school structures, resources, and values, for example, teacher autonomy and expertise. Coppola's book holds many lessons for anyone interested in teaching, technology, professional learning, and school reform. Its language is accessible and engaging, and it is a strong scholarly work.I highly recommend it to K-12 educators and policymakers, university faculty and students in education, and researchers and developers in this field. ... Read more