Publications
Books
Piro, J. (2019). The Primacy of PISA: The world’s most important test and how it’ s changing education globally. Bloomsbury/ Rowman & Littlefield.
Piro, J. (2016). Revolutionizing global higher education policy: Innovation and the Bologna Process. New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
Book Chapters
Levitt, R., & Piro, J. (2016). Innovation in education through web-based instruction: Digital and cross-platform storytelling. In M. Raisinghini (Ed). Revolutionizing education through web-based instruction. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Piro, J. & Marksbury, N. (2012).Technologizing teaching: Using the WebQuest to enhance pre- service education. In Ronau, R., Rakes, C., & Niess, M. Educational technology, teacher knowledge, and classroom impact: A research handbook on frameworks and approaches. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
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Selected Scholarly Publications
Piro, J., Ortiz, C., & Manouvrier, L. (2021). Sleep behaviors and handedness in gifted and non-gifted children. Developmental Neuropsychology.
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Piro, J. M. Review of Tatto, M. T. & Menter, I. (2020). Knowledge, policy and practice in teacher education: A cross-national study. London: Bloomsbury Academic. In Teachers College Record, January 6, 2020.
Piro, J.M. (2019). ‘Unbounded applause’: The child prodigy in the eighteenth century. (manuscript submitted for publication).
Levitt, R., & Piro, J. (2014). Game changer: Operationalizing the CCLS using WebQuests and gamification in teacher education.The I International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 19(3),53- 71.
Sanacore, J. & Piro, J. M. (2014). Multimodalities, neuroenhancement, and literacy learning. International Journal of Progressive Education, 10(2), 56- 72.
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Levitt, R., & Piro, J. (2012).Time, space, and culture: Diversifying and globalizing ‘minds.’ Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 6(11), 55-72
Piro, J.M. & Ortiz, C. (2010). No association between music ability and hand preference in children. Journal of Motor Behavior, 42(5), 269-275.
Piro, J.M. (2009). Music training and literacy development. Literacy Today, 59, 32-34.
Choi. H., & Piro, J. (2009). Expanding arts education in a digital age. Arts Education Policy Review, 110, 27-34.
Piro, J.M. & Ortiz, C. (2009). The role of music training on the vocabulary and verbal sequencing skills of elementary school students. Psychology of Music, 37, 325-34.
Piro, J. (2008). Foucault and the architecture of surveillance: Creating regimes of power in schools, shrines, and society. Educational Studies, 44 (1), 30-46.
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Piro, J. (2008). Rembrandt and collections of his art in America: An NEH Curriculum Project. Journal of Aesthetic Education, 42(2), 1-18.
Piro, J. (2007). Teaching Rembrandt. Humanities, 28(6), 14-20.
Piro, J. & Ahmad, I. (2005). Mosque and mausoleum: Understanding Islam in India through architecture. Education about Asia, 10(1), 28-33.
Piro, J.M. (2005). The Rhode Island “Washington:” Meaning making in social studies through art history. The History Teacher, 38(4), 483-498.
Piro, J.M. (Spring, 2003). Thinking neurally: What brain science can teach gifted education. GEMS-Association for Gifted and Talented Education. 27(2), 10-11.
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Piro, J.M. (2002). The picture of reading: Deriving meaning in literacy through image. The Reading Teacher, 56(2), 126- 134.
Piro, J.M. (2001). The Rembrandt project: Promoting multiple literacies in teaching and learning. Art Education, 54, 12-17.
Piro, J.M. (1998). Handedness and intelligence: Patterns of hand preference in gifted and nongifted students. Developmental Neuropsychology, 14, 619-630.
Piro, J.M, (1997). School-Museum collaboration: A passage to Asian study. Education About Asia. 2(2), 14-20.
Piro, J.M. (1997). Approaching social studies through a school-museum collaboration, Association of Teachers of Social Studies, VII(2), 7-11.
Szeszko, P.R., Madden, G.M., & Piro, J.M. (1997). Factor analyses of handedness items in left and right-handed intellectually gifted and nongifted children. Cortex, 33, 579- 584.
Piro, J.M. (1996). Mozart, Thomas Linley the Younger, and prodigies in the age of the Enlightenment. Paper prepared for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar.
Piro, J.M. (1994). Research reports and teaching materials prepared by the participant of the Department of Education- Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminar, Cairo, Egypt/ Amman, Jordan, June-July, 1990, Resources in Education, ED 372 176- 373 138, December, 1994, 29:12.
Piro, J.M. (1993). Talent, special ability, and hemispheric processing. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 77, 701-2.
Piro, J.M. (1993). Laterality for music perception among differentially gifted adolescents, Perceptual and Motor Skills, 76, 499-514.
Piro, Joseph M. (1991). Laterality for music problem solving among adolescents gifted in music, mathematics and dance. ERIC Document ED327544.
Piro, J.M. & Iorio, J.E. (1991). Fusing school restructure and staff development: A school district experiments. Education, 112(1), 107-118.
Piro, J.M. (1990). Cross-cultural attitudes toward achievement: Accommodating gifted students in Japan and the United States. Paper prepared for the New York City Public Schools: Division of Curriculum and Instruction.
Piro, J.M. & Iorio, J.E. (1990). A comprehensive critical thinking skills program for an urban school district. Thinking, 4, 24‑27.
Piro, J.M. (1990). Laterality effects for music perception. The Clinical Neuropsychologist. Abstract of 1990 APA Conference Papers. Boston, MA.
Piro, J.M. & Iorio, J.E. (1990). Rationale and responsibilities in the teaching of critical thinking to American schoolchildren. Journal of Instructional Psychology, 17(1), 3‑10.
Piro, J.M. (1986). Laterality for music perception and problem solving among adolescents gifted in music, mathematics and dance. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, New York.
Piro, J.M. (1978). Broadway/ Kabuki: Crafting the 'Oriental' musical Pacific Overtures. Unpublished master's thesis, City University of New York, Queens College, New York.
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