education

Book Reviews

• Craig Barton: How I Wish I'd Taught Maths
  Lessons Learned from Research, Conversations with Experts, and 12 Years of Mistakes
• Isabel L. Beck, et al.: Bringing Words to Life
  Robust Vocabulary Instruction
• Tim Brighouse, Mick Waters: About Our Schools: Improving on Previous Best
  - the past, present and future of the English school system
• Erika Christakis: The Importance of Being Little
  What Preschoolers Really Need From Grownups
• Alison Clarke-Stewart, Virginia D. Allhusen: What We Know About Childcare
  - a survey of research into childcare in the United States
• David Crystal: Language Play
  - by adults and children
• Lise Eliot: Early Intelligence*
  How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
• G.R. Evans: The University of Oxford
  A New History
• Tom Garry: Mastery in Primary Mathematics
  - a mastery approach to teaching mathematics teaching
• M.O. Grenby, Andrea Immel: The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature
  - sixteen essays
• Daniel Hahn: The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
  - an encyclopedia covering authors in English and their work
• Paul L. Harris: Trusting What You're Told
  How Children Learn from Others
• Anthony Kenny, Robert Kenny: Can Oxford be Improved?
  A View from the Dreaming Spires and the Satanic Mills
• Paul Lockhart: Arithmetic**
  - a deep look at elementary mathematics
• Mary Jo Maynes: Schooling in Western Europe*
  - the introduction of mass elementary education
• Louis Menand: The Future of Academic Freedom
  - philosophical, legal, and ethical perspectives
• Robert Newell: Mastery Mathematics for Primary Teachers
• Daniel Pennac: Reads Like a Novel*
  - teaching and learning a love of reading
• David Rudd: The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature
  - theory and critical approaches
• Lucy Rycroft-Smith, JL Dutaut: Flip the System UK
  A Teachers' Manifesto
• Pasi Sahlberg: Finnish Lessons 2.0
  What can the world learn from educational change in Finland?
• Martin Salisbury, Morag Styles: Children's Picturebooks
  The Art of Visual Storytelling
• W.B. Stephens: Education in Britain 1750-1914
  - elementary, secondary and higher education; literacy and science
• Maryanne Wolf: Proust and the Squid
  The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
• Reports of the National Center for Science Education
  - defending the teaching of evolution