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This collection of award-winning research in Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership is sponsored by the Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (LTEL SIG of AERA)...

Where We Live and Work is a writing book for those with only a basic knowledge of how English works. It is organized by rhetorical mode and covers six: definition and classification, description, comparison and contrast, narration, process analysis, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461161090Author James Kay-ShuttleworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher HardPress LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

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A array of childcare and preschool options blossomed in the 1970s as the feminist movement spurred mothers into careers and community organizations nurtured new programs. Now a small circle of activists aims to bring more order to childhood, seeking to...

Holmes presents a textured picture of the difficulties facing schools in Canada. He examines the social background of students and the competing goals of parents, teachers, and governments. He criticizes progressivism, or child-centred education, and...

Redefined transformative learning refers to learning that implies a change in the learner's identity, which includes cognitive, emotional, and social dimensions and is something all teachers, in this case migrant teachers, experience and negotiate when...

Redefined transformative learning refers to learning that implies a change in the learner's identity, which includes cognitive, emotional, and social dimensions and is something all teachers, in this case migrant teachers, experience and negotiate when...

The authors of this work contend that it is essential for all important actors in an urban community to join together in a shared vision of what is wrong in their schools and how to fix it, and to pursue that vision strongly and systematically over a...

With critical issues like desegregation and funding facing our schools, dissatisfaction with public education has reached a new high. Teachers decry inadequate resources while critics claim educators are more concerned with job security than effective...

Despite often being associated with anti-establishment, irreverent, and a do-it yourself (DIY) rejection of dominant culture, less considered may the collaborative, communal and curative threads of punk thinking, being and doing. From the outset, punk...

Despite often being associated with anti-establishment, irreverent, and a do-it yourself (DIY) rejection of dominant culture, less considered may the collaborative, communal and curative threads of punk thinking, being and doing. From the outset, punk...

By the early twenty-first century, a startling consensus had emerged about the overall aim of American school reform. In an era of political discord, and in a field historically known for contentiousness, the notion of promoting educational excellence...

Seeking to understand why the ""excellence for all"" in education vision took hold at the time it did, this book unpacks the particular beliefs and assumptions embedded in it, and details the often informal coalition building that produced this period of...

This book explores the efficacy of innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to educational leadership preparation implemented at universities across the United States that serve K-12 populations in urban, rural, and suburban contexts.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759550001Author Dwight William AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013291111Author David ScottFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

A community school differs from other public schools in important ways: it is generally open most of the time, governed by a partnership between the school system and a community agency, and offers a broad array of health and social services. It often...

The call-to-arms to "leave no child behind" in America has become popularly associated with the Bush administration's education plan-a plan that actually diverges greatly from the ideals of the Children's Defense Fund, which originated the concept. Here,...

This book offers an examination of the related topics of school prayer and character education in the United States, advocating for their return to public schools. According to William Jeynes, the lack of both school prayer and consistent moral...

The first fully comparative empirical analysis of the relationship between education and social cohesion, this book develops a new 'distributional theory' of the effects of educational inequality on social solidarity. Based on extensive analysis of data...

Over the past 15 years, Brazil has introduced a consistent program of reforms of its education system, progressively aligning the educational attainment of its labor force with that of other middle income countries and introducing advanced student...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980047578Author Jim HinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Gashouse BooksPublisher Gashouse BooksWeight(grams) 297g

Provides an overview of policy developments, professional and political issues and research findings in relation to school reform.Book InformationISBN 9780826477361Author Kimberly KinslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Continuum International...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820437972Author Kenneth A SirotnikFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 580g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989910644Author Denny TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Garn PressPublisher Garn PressWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013271458Author Justin W CookFormat HardbackPage Count 434Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981950150Author Stephen PerlaFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Alliance for Catholic Education PressPublisher Alliance for Catholic Education...

This cutting-edge collection of essays presents to the reader leading voices within food justice, environmental justice, and school to prison pipeline movements. While many schools, community organizers, professors, politicians, unions, teachers,...

University rankings have gained popularity around the world and are now a significant factor shaping reputation. This second edition updates Ellen Hazelkorn's first comprehensive study of rankings from a global perspective, drawing in new original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013295133Author Lisbeth LundahFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

This book explains how a teaching system focused on identifying and stoking each student's strengths-rather than concentrating on deficits-can bring remarkable academic improvement and achievement. It's a familiar and seemingly logical model: to improve...

Recruiting, Retaining and Retraining Secondary School Teachers and Principals in Sub-Saharan Africa is based on country studies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar, Tanzania and Uganda and an extensive literature review. In many parts of Africa, the...

This text presents a comprehensive view of the challenges facing society, the realities of work and leisure for children in the 21st century, and the implications of these analyses and predictions for schools today as they prepare children for the future...

University rankings have gained popularity around the world, and are now a significant factor shaping reputation. This book is the first comprehensive study of rankings from a global perspective, making an important contribution to our understanding of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060932602Author Martin L GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 249g

To lend weight to his charge that the public school teacher has been betrayed and gravity to his indictment of the educational establishment for that betrayal, Jurgen Herbst goes back to the beginnings of teacher education in America in the 1830s and...

The Link between Health, Social Issues and Secondary Education is based on country studies in six Sub-Saharan African countries - Eritrea, Mali, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania, and a literature review. It looks at the role of secondary...

Education reformers and policymakers argue that improved students' learning requires stronger academic standards, stiffer state tests, and accountability for students' scores. Yet these efforts seem not to be succeeding in many states. The authors of...