Douglas Lee Harris

Structures in Topology

A Nation at Risk: A 20-Year Reappraisal. A Special Issue of the Peabody Journal of Education

Getting It Together: A Process Workbook for K-12 Curriculum Development, Implementation, and Assessment

How to Use Standards in the Classroom

Succeeding With Standards: Linking Curriculum, Assessment, and Action Planning

Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia

Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia

The Physical Basis of Electronics: An Introductory Course

The Republican Party: Documents Decoded

Will the modern Republican Party be able to convince the American people that its policies and positions are the right ones to guide the United States? This book examines the status of the Republican Party in the early 21st century, considers where it came from, and predicts where it's heading.• Pre...

How to Use Standards in the Classroom

How can you bring standards to life and reality in your classroom? This guide is for teachers who seek a model and processes for designing standards-based units of study to use in their classrooms. The proliferation of standards developed at the national and state levels turns the preparation of a ...

A Guide to Energy Management in Buildings

This new edition of A Guide to Energy Management in Buildings begins by asking why we need to control energy use in buildings and proceeds to discuss how the energy consumption of a building can be assessed or estimated through an energy audit. It then details a range of interventions to reduce ener...

History and Folklore of the Cowichan Indians

In the late 1800s, Martha Douglas Harris, the daughter of the former governor of British Columbia, observed that "civilization" was destroying the "native dignity and wholesome life" of the Cowichan tribe of Vancouver, "substituting much evil for the real good found in their former customs and chara...

The Austin-Boston Connection: Five Decades of House Democratic Leadership, 1937–1989

For the more than fifty years that Democrats controlled the U.S. House of Representatives, leadership was divided between Massachusetts and Texas. When the Speaker was from Texas (or nearby Oklahoma), the Majority Leader was from the Boston area, and when the Speaker was from Boston, the Majority Le...

Creating Dynamic Schools Through Mentoring Coaching and Collaboration

How can you create a school environment where everyone--staff and students alike--will become an active, engaged learner? How can you develop a collegial school culture that will improve morale, expand professional opportunities, and raise student achievement? How can you make a difference in your s...

A Guide to Energy Management in Buildings

Inefficient energy use in buildings is both increasingly expensive and unsustainable. Indeed, the reduction of the energy consumption of existing buildings is as least as important as the design of new low-energy buildings. Controlling energy use is one thing, but it is important to assess or estima...

Value-Added Measures in Education: What Every Educator Needs to Know

In Value-Added Measures in Education, economist and education researcher Douglas N. Harris takes on one of the most hotly debated topics in education. Drawing on his extensive work with schools and districts, he sets out to help educators and policy makers understand this innovative approach to asse...