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Top Textbook: Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching, 2nd Edition

Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching
2nd Edition
By Julie Vargas

To Be Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge – 400 pages

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This book shows teachers and other human service professionals working in school settings how to employ non-aversive, behavior analysis principles in classrooms and other school settings.
Top Textbook: Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Assessment of Children and Adolescents, 4th Edition

Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Assessment of Children and Adolescents
4th Edition
By Sara Whitcomb, Kenneth W. Merrell

Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge – 520 pages

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Generally recognized as the standard work in its field, Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Assessment of Children and Adolescents provides a comprehensive foundation and guide for conducting conceptually sound, culturally responsive, and ecologically-oriented assessments of student social and emotional behavior.
Top Textbook: Introductory Statistics

Introductory Statistics
A Conceptual Approach Using R
By William B. Ware, John M. Ferron, Barbara M. Miller

Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge – 500 pages

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This comprehensive and uniquely organized text is aimed at undergraduate and graduate level statistics courses in education, psychology, and other social sciences.
Top Textbook: Educational Leadership and Technology

Educational Leadership and Technology
Preparing School Administrators for a Digital Age
By Virginia E. Garland, Chester Tadeja

Published January 4th 2013 by Routledge – 144 pages

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Providing models of exemplary use and the latest research, Educational Leadership and Technology reveals the transformational power of emerging technologies to improve student learning, and explores how leaders can bring about this technology integration.
Top Textbook: Exploring Education, 4th Edition

Exploring Education
An Introduction to the Foundations of Education, 4th Edition
By Alan R. Sadovnik, Peter Cookson, Jr., Susan Semel

Published January 7th 2013 by Routledge – 644 pages

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This much-anticipated fourth edition of Exploring Education offers an alternative to traditional foundations texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings.
Top Textbook: Teaching Secondary Mathematics, 4th Edition

Teaching Secondary Mathematics
4th Edition
By David Rock, Douglas K. Brumbaugh

To Be Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge – 360 pages

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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.
Top Textbook: Readings for Diversity and Social Justice, 3rd Edition

Readings for Diversity and Social Justice
3rd Edition
Edited by Maurianne Adams, Warren Blumenfeld, Carmelita Castaneda, Heather W. Hackman, Madeline L. Peters, Ximena Zuniga

To Be Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge – 696 pages

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Readings for Diversity and Social Justice is the market leading anthology to cover the full scope of social oppression from a social justice standpoint.
Top Textbook: The Curriculum Studies Reader, 4th Edition

The Curriculum Studies Reader
4th Edition
Edited by David J. Flinders, Stephen Thornton

Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge – 418 pages

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For fifteen years, The Curriculum Studies Reader has been a field-defining anthology, bringing together the best scholarship from curriculum studies’ past and present.
Routledge Education Textbook Authors of the Month, January: Sadovnik, Cookson, & Semel

The fourth edition of Exploring Education: An Introduction to the Foundations of Education, by Alan R. Sadovnik, Peter Cookson, Jr., and Susan Semel, just published this month. This much-anticipated updated edition of Exploring Education offers an alternative to traditional foundations texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings.

Alan R. Sadovnik is Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Education, Sociology and Public Administration and Affairs at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, where he is the Co- Director of the Institute on Educational Law and Policy and the Newark Schools Research Collaborative, and Coordinator of the Educational Policy track of the Ph.D. Program in Urban Systems.

The most powerful influence in Peter W. Cookson, Jr.'s career has been a life-long passion for equality of educational opportunity. Peter W. Cookson, Jr. teaches at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA, and is President of Ideas without Borders in Washington, DC, USA.

Susan F. Semel is Professor of Education at the City College of New York, where she served as Chair of the Department of Secondary Education for a decade and also Professor of Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Top Textbook: Essentials of Elementary Social Studies

Essentials of Elementary Social Studies
4th Edition
By Thomas N. Turner, William B. Russell III, Stewart Waters

Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge – 286 pages

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Essentials of Elementary Social Studies is a teacher friendly text that provides comprehensive treatment of classroom planning, instruction, and strategies. Praised for its dynamic approaches and a writing style that is conversational, personal, and professional, this text enables and encourages teachers to effectively teach elementary social studies using creative and active learning strategies.