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Play and its role in the mental development of the child

Vygotsky

1966

"This was Vygotsky’s major work on play and despite its brevity it has continued to resonate in all discussions of play ever since its publication."

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Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscious of a Nation

Anti-Racism & Social Justice
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Kozol
1995

Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools

Anti-Racism & Social Justice
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
OECD Publishing
2012

Dawn

Beyond Education
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Butler
1987

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Anti-Racism & Social Justice
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
hooks
1994

Junk Food is Bad For You, but Junk Reading is Good for You

Promoting Literacy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Krashen, Ujiie
2005

Education for Critical Consciousness

Critical Pedagogy and Power
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Freire
1973

Time May Be Up for Naps in Pre-K Class

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Trejos
2004

Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life

Critical Pedagogy and Power
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Giroux
2005

I use evidence to inform my teaching.

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
McNutt
2019

The Curse of "Helicopter Teaching"

Promoting Literacy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Kittle & Gallagher
2020

Mindfulness Practices and Children's Emotional and Mental Well-Being

Social Emotional Learning
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Peacock
2015

Talks on pedagogics : an outline of the theory of concentration

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Parker
1894

The Purpose Challenge Toolkit

Purpose-Finding
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
The Purpose Challenge
2017

The Writer's Practice

Promoting Literacy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Warner
2019

Solutionary Guidebook

Experiential Learning
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Institute for Humane Education
2020

Deeper Learning: How Eight Innovative Public Schools Are Transforming Education in the Twenty-First Century

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Martinez & McGrath
2018

The Book of Learning and Forgetting

Experiential Learning
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Smith
1998

A Study on the Efficacy of Project-Based Learning Approach on Social Studies Education: Conceptual Achievement and Academic Motivation

Experiential Learning
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Ilter
2014

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Anti-Racism & Social Justice
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Rothstein
2017

My Pragmatic Journey to Voice & Choice in the Classroom

Self-Determination
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Covington
2018

Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction

Critical Pedagogy and Power
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Kanpol
1999

Transforming Power: Domination, Empowerment, and Education

Critical Pedagogy and Power
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Kreisberg
1992

Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Shalaby
2017

The interplay of scientific epistemological views, learning strategies, and attitudes of college students

Purpose-Finding
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Edmondson & Novak
1993

Cutting Content to Make Room for Learning

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Covington
2018

Postmodern Education: Politics, Culture, and Social Criticism

Critical Pedagogy and Power
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Aronowitz & Giroux
1990

The Politics of the Paragraph

Promoting Literacy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Kenney
2016

A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Mark
2019

On failure

Ungrading
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Biber
2019

Motivation and Education: The Self-Determination Perspective

Self-Determination
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Deci
1991

Why do teachers leave?

Supporting Teachers and PD Reform
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Learning Policy Institute
2016

Education, Inc.

Public Education
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Kohn & Shannon (editors)
2002

Who's Asking?

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Kohn
2015

The Human Factor: The Promise & Limits of Online Education

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Baum & McPherson
2019

National survey: Students’ feelings about high school are mostly negative

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Belli
2020

The Pedagogy of Poverty Versus Good Teaching

Anti-Racism & Social Justice
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Haberman
1991

We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be

Critical Pedagogy and Power
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Minor
2018

Beating the Odds: Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well

Promoting Literacy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Langer
2000

Portfolios: Process and Product

Ungrading
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Belanoff & Dickson (editors)
1991

The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Sizer & Sizer
2000

Making Cooperative Learning Work

Cooperation and Soft Skills
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Johnson & Johnson
1999

Disrupt Texts

Anti-Racism & Social Justice
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Website
Org

Response: The importance of rigor in bringing history to life

General Progressive Pedagogy
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Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
McNutt
2018

The Impact of High-Stakes Tests on Student Academic Performance

Eliminating Standardized Testing
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Amrein & Berliner
2002

Colleges Want Students with Character, But Can’t Measure It

Eliminating Standardized Testing
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Hoover
2014

Student Perceptions of an Online Ungraded Course

Ungrading
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Guberman
2021

Your Best Friend or Your Worst Enemy: Youth Popular Culture, Pedagogy, and Curriculum in Urban Classrooms

Anti-Racism & Social Justice
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Duncan-Andrade & M.R.
2004

The Montessori Method

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Montessori
1988 (translated)

Contextualizing instruction: Leveraging students’ prior knowledge and experiences to foster understanding of middle school science

Experiential Learning
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
2008
Rivet

Physical education teachers’ perceptions about the effectiveness and acceptability of strategies used to increase relevance and choice for students in physical education classes

Self-Determination
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Bennie et. al.
2017

Turning Play into Work: Effects of Adult Surveillance and Extrinsic Rewards on Children's Intrinsic Motivation

Self-Determination
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Lepper & Greene
1975

Inside the Classroom: Social Vision and Critical Pedagogy

Critical Pedagogy and Power
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Bigelow
1990

Measuring Student Success Skills: A Review of the Literature on Critical Thinking

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Evans
2020

Failing Grades for Retention

Ungrading
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Natriello
1998

Pressure From Above and Pressure From Below as Determinants of Teachers’ Motivation and Teaching Behaviors

Self-Determination
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Pelletier et. al.
2002

PSA for Teachers: Teach to Get Fired

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
McNutt
2018

Remaking Professional Development

Supporting Teachers and PD Reform
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
McNutt
2019

Going Gradeless This Year? Just Thinking About It? Start Here.

Ungrading
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Walter
2021

School Food Advocacy Toolkit

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Chef Ann Foundation
Org

Making Meaning, Making Change: Participatory Curriculum Development for Adult ESL Literacy

Second Language Acquisition
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Auerbach
1992

Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Critical Pedagogy and Power
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Freire
1992

The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy

Eliminating Standardized Testing
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Lemann
2000

Creativity as a Habit

Cooperation and Soft Skills
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Sternberg
2007

Academic Co-creative Inquiry: Creating Inclusive Processes for Learning

Cooperation and Soft Skills
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Napan
2010

What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Kohn
2004

Experiential Learning Theory as a Guide for Experiential Educators in Higher Education

Experiential Learning
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Kolb & Kolb
2017

Taking the Plunge

Self-Determination
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Covington
2018

Young children's resolution of distress through play

Free Play
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Barnett
1984

America's Teenagers--Myths and Realities

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Nichols & Good
2004

Motivating Project-Based Learning: Sustaining the Doing, Supporting the Learning

Experiential Learning
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Blumenfeld et. al.
1991

“You Do Not Have to Be Good”: De-emphasizing Product in Arts Education

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Fawkes
2019

The Relationship of High School Graduation Exams to Graduation Rates and SAT Scores

Eliminating Standardized Testing
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Marchant & Paulson
2005

Timeless Learning: How Imagination, Observation, and Zero-Based Thinking Change Schools

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Socol et. al.
2018

Young people’s perceptions of their parents’ expectations and criticism are increasing over time: Implications for perfectionism.

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Curran & Hill
2022

Anxiety and depression top list of problems teens see among their peers

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Pew Research Center
2018

Democratic Schools (2nd ed)

Public Education
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Apple
2007

LOSING OUR FUTURE: How Minority Youth are Being Left Behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis

Anti-Racism & Social Justice
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Orfield et. al.
2004

Discussing transgender topics within gay-straight alliances: Factors that could promote more frequent conversations

Anti-Racism & Social Justice
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Poteat et. al.
2018

Typical physics Ph.D. admissions criteria limit access to underrepresented groups but fail to predict doctoral completion

Eliminating Standardized Testing
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Miller
2019

Because excellencism is more than good enough: On the need to distinguish the pursuit of excellence from the pursuit of perfection

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Gaudreau et. al.
2022

How Teachers Can Start a Grassroots Revolution for Better Schools

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
McNutt
2021

Curriculum Integration: Designing the Core of Democratic Education

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Beane
1997

Democracy and Education

Purpose-Finding
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Dewey
1966

Awesome play: Awe increases preschooler’s exploration and discovery

Free Play
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Colantonio & Bonawitz
2018

Silencing in Public Schools

Critical Pedagogy and Power
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Fine
1987

Many Children Left Behind

Eliminating Standardized Testing
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Meier
2004

The “New Racism” of K-12 Schools: Centering Critical Research on Racism

Anti-Racism & Social Justice
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Kohli et. al.
2017

A Year of Mathematical Freedom

Ungrading
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Moore
2019

The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Engel
2015

National differences, global similarities: World culture and the future of schooling

Eliminating Homework
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Baker & LeTendre
2005

From Boutique to Big Box

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Acker
2013

Development of school engagement in association with academic success and well-being in varying social contexts

Social Emotional Learning
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Upadyaya & Salmela-Aro
2013

Human Targets: SCHOOLS, POLICE, AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF LATINO YOUTH

Restorative Justice
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Rios
2017

Implementing Restorative Justice: A Guide for Schools

Restorative Justice
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
State of Illinois
N.D.

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

Beyond Education
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Love
2020

Doing and Teaching Disciplinary Literacy with Adolescent Learners: A Social and Cultural Enterprise

Promoting Literacy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Mojr
2015

high-stakes testing and student achievement: updated analyses with naep data

Eliminating Standardized Testing
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Nichols et. al.
2012

“They Thought the World Was Flat?”

Critical Pedagogy and Power
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Bain
2005

The Science of Reading and the Media: Is Reporting Biased?

Promoting Literacy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
Aukerman
N.D.

Neo-Progressivism

General Progressive Pedagogy
Organization or Website
Book
Article
Study
| Open Access
McNutt
2019
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