Education News & Updates
Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.
Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.

Read on to browse our new books publishing in April!

ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
Series Editor: Eli Hinkel
This series provides essential texts on teaching English as a second language and applied linguistics. It includes authored and edited volumes to be used as primary or supplementary texts in graduate-level and teacher training courses to enhance students’ and practicing teachers’ professional qualifications and knowledge.

The second edition of Cruz and Thornton’s Teaching Social Studies to English Language Learners is being published by Routledge this month.
Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz is Professor of Secondary Education at the University of South Florida. Her teaching and research interests include the preparation of social studies teachers, diversity issues in education, and the teaching of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Dr. Stephen J. Thornton is professor and chair of the Department of Secondary Education at the University of South Florida. Since his first days as a classroom teacher he has been intrigued by what happens to “official” curriculum in classrooms.

Creating Effective Community Partnerships for School Improvement
A Guide for School Leaders
By Hazel Carter
To Be Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge – 216 pages
Creating Effective Partnerships for School Improvement places the school within the community which is composed of a number of key players, including school leaders, classroom teachers, private foundations, higher education institutions, business and community based organizations, and government agencies.

Read on to browse all of our books publishing in March 2013!

Improving Computer Science Education
By Djordje M. Kadijevich, Charoula Angeli, Carsten Schulte
Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge – 156 pages
Improving Computer Science Education examines suitable theoretical frameworks for conceptualizing teaching and learning computer science. This highly useful book provides numerous examples of practical, "real world" applications of major computer science information topics, such as Spreadsheets, Databases and Programming.

Dr. David Rock is currently Dean of the School of Education at the University of Mississippi. He was named the Outstanding Alumni of the Decade 1990 – 1999 from the College of Education at University of Central Florida, College of Education and received the 2012 Professional Achievement Award from The University of Central Florida’s College of Education last year.
The fourth edition of Dr. Rock's Teaching Secondary Mathematics is publishing this month. Solidly grounded in up-to-date research, theory and technology, Teaching Secondary Mathematics is a practical, student-friendly, and popular text for secondary mathematics methods courses. It provides clear and useful approaches for mathematics teachers, and shows how concepts typically found in a secondary mathematics curriculum can be taught in a positive and encouraging way.

Teacher Quality and School Development
Series Editors: Christopher Day and Ann Lieberman
The aim of this series is to bring together, disseminate and communicate original and authoritative experience and research which will "speak to" teachers, teacher educators, researchers, and other research user communities such as teacher associations, and policy making/implementation organizations.