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Evidence and Decision Making was edited by Pamela A. Moss of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The volume illuminates the crucial roles that teachers, administrators, and other education professionals play in constructing and using evidence to make decisions that support learning. Authors analyze the construction and use of evidence in classrooms, teacher communities, schools, and school districts; consider the roles that district, state, and federal education agencies can play in supporting sound practice; and provide historical contexts and theoretical and epistemological resources for studying and warranting different types of decisions. The scholarship provides a realistic and complex vision of what counts as evidence and how evidence is and might be use to inform professional learning and decision making at various levels of the educational system.
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Information and Communication Technologies: Considerations of Current
Practice for Teachers and Teacher Educators is edited by Louanne Smolin and Kimberly Lawless of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Nick Burbules of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. The volume will examine the gap between the promise of technology and its current reality in schools. It is written for classroom teachers and teacher educators, because it is through these two groups in particular that this gap can be closed. Authors identify the issues, the problematics, and the considerations that teachers and teacher educators should consider as they plan and implement uses of ICT with their students in mind, and address the integration of technology in school curriculums, as well as afterschool programs, instructional technology, professional development, information literacy, and the philosophical and pedogogical concerns associated with technology.
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THANK YOU to all who volunteered to review chapters from the 2007 yearbooks. We now have an online form so that you can register to be a reviewer for upcoming issues of the yearbook. See the home page and click to add your name, whether for 2008 or beyond.
We are continuing work on a two-volume yearbook called "Why Do We Educate" for 2008, with Gary Fenstermacher as senior editor and Richard Colvin (Hechinger Institute for Education and the Media), John Wiens (University of Manitoba), and David Coulter (University of British Columbia) as volume editors. These volumes would explore the foundational reasons behind society's engagement in the education of its young, in an effort to expand and deepen the public discourse on the topic of education (both formal and "informal" schooling).
The first volume is planned for essays written by prominent persons selected from many different fields, including the fine and performing arts, the professions, business and commerce, government, and philanthropic organizations, to reflect the thinking of those who have an articulate vision of how to advance the interests of children and youth in democratic society. The second volume will advance the moral, intellectual and democratic grounds for education in a democracy. Each volume will be aimed at informing both policy and practice and encouraging public debate about the purposes of education, a consideration often obscured by a focus on accountability.
We welcome your comments and suggestions. We are also interested in your proposals for future yearbooks--please see "proposal guidelines" after you click "yearbooks" (above) or email nsse@uic.edu.
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An encounter with the "unnetted" in education
Please review and pass on The Unnetted - Rank by Communications - If you are not part of any network, you do not exist - It is about the voids in education related to workers having no voice in the process of globalization - See http://unnettedjourneys.filetap.com
Web Site: http://unnettedjourneys.filetap.com | NEED BACK VOLUMES OF YEARBOOKS
Dr. Robert Otey of Concordia University in Texas is looking to complete his collection of NSSE yearbooks and is interesting in acquiring yearbooks from 1957 and back to complete a set. If you have any yearbooks that you are willing to part with, you can contact him at Robert.Otey@concordia.edu
| Education Experts Needed
Kay Dorko, of Editorial Projects in Education (kdorko@epe.org) would like to be able to contact other members for the reporting staffs of Education Week and Teacher magazine when they need background in the following areas: Administration, Educational Policy and Politics, School Reform, Teacher Education, Assessment and Evaluation, Early Childhood Education, Technology. Please let her know if you are interested in this opportunity.
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nsse@uic.edu |  Why Do We Educate yearbook
Volume 1 of the WDWE yearbook for 2008 is on its way to the publisher. This volume will reflect a scholarly focus that invites thoughtful reflection on a question that is sorely neglected: Why do we educate in a democratic society?
Responses from the contributors (listed below) represent, in the words of Gary Fenstermacher, Senior Editor, "an invitation to all who are interested in education to enter the dialogue about its purposes and its processes.... The essays are designed to open pathways of inquiry into the foundational purposes of education in democratic societies. They are designed to assist, to provoke, and to advance vitally important discourse about education."
Please renew or begin a membership in NSSE and take advantage of the opportunity to receive these this volume and its companion, which will offer contemporary and historical perspectives on education and its purposes.
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University
Deborah Lowenberg Ball, University of Michigan
Ray Barnhardt, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Hyman Bass, University of Michigan
Seyla Benhabib, Yale University
Harry Brighouse, University of Wisconsin
Eamonn Callan, Stanford University
David L. Coulter, University of British Columbia
Joseph Dunne, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City University
Kieran Egan, Simon Fraser University
Gary D. Fenstermacher, University of Michigan
Ursula M. Franklin, University of Toronto
Joannie Halas, University of Manitoba
Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Jeanne Kentel, University of Leeds
Janice Kinghorn, Antioch College
Lars Løvlie, University of Oslo
Randall Nielsen , Kettering Foundation
Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts
Nel Noddings, Stanford University
Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago
Ken Osborne, University of Manitoba
Diane Ravitch, New York University
John R. Wiens, University of Manitoba
Ian Winchester, University of Calgary and Oxford University
| MEMBER ADVANTAGE: FREE ONLINE ACCESS TO FOUR ADDITIONAL JOURNALS
NSSE members who are current enjoy electronic access to four Blackwell journals:
* Educational Theory
* Curriculum Inquiry
* British Journal of Educational Technology
* British Journal of Educational Studies
Simply sign in, scroll down to the lower right hand corner, and click!
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National Society for the Study of Education and Blackwell Publishing
NSSE has contracted with Blackwell Publishing for publication and distribution services, beginning with the 2005 yearbooks. Blackwell Publishing President Gordon Tibbitts comments, "We are honored to have the Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education added to our strong and growing education list. Their work, dating back to John Dewey in 1901, offers a powerful lens on the development of education in America."
Regular membership at a $40 annual rate will continue to be available to individuals, and will include electronic access to the current volume. Institutions and libraries should contact:
Blackwell Publishing Journals Customer Service
350 Main Street
Malden, MA 02148
800-835-6770 or 781-388-8200 or email to
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