This month, we highlight new titles in Science Education as well as new Praxis guides in selected content areas. We also highlight new titles emphasizing Places in Children's Literature.

Professional books
Improving Urban Science Education: New Roles for Teachers, Students, and Researchers, edited by Kenneth Tobin, Rowhea Elmesky, and Gale Seiler. Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.
Q 181 .I624 2005
Reports and interprets seven years of research on fundamental issues of urban high school science instruction, including social differences, cultural biases, and inappropriate curricula.
Mediating Science Learning Through Information and Communications Technology, edited by Richard Holliman and Eileen Scanlon. RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.
Q 181 M395 2004
Focuses on the influence of multi-media, web-based learning, and communication technology on formal contemporary science education.
Teaching Science as Inquiry, by Arthur A. Carin, Joel E. Bass, and Terry L. Contant. 10th ed. Pearson/Merrill, Prentice Hall, 2005.
LB 1585 .C28 2005
Outlines a manageable way for both new and experienced science teachers to introduce the inquiry method, which motivates and engages every type of student, into their teaching.
PRAXIS II titles from XAM, Inc.
Earth science (high school)
Elementary education competencies and skills
French sample test
Guidance couseling
Physical education (high school)
Physics sample test
Principals of learning and teaching K-6
Psychology sample test
Spanish
Special education
Children's literature
Antartica: Journeys to the South Pole, by Walter Dean Myers. Scholastic Press, 2004.
LTy G 863 .M94 2004
City of Snow: the Great Blizzard of 1888 [New York], by Kinda Oatman High; ill. by Laura Francesca Filippuci. Walker and Co., 2004.
LTy PZ 3 .H5439 Ci 2004
Earthquake! . . . disaster strikes San Francisco, text by Shelley Tanaka; paintings by David Craig. Hyperion/Madison Press, 2004.
LTy F 869 .S357 T36 2004