Administration category: 6852 books
Resource Management for School Administrators
Optimizing Fiscal, Facility, and Human Resources
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Resource Management for School Administrators is the only comprehensive book covering all school resources---fiscal, facilities and human resources. Each chapter has objectives that are aligned with the new ELCC and ISLCC standards on accreditation. Many of the federal and various state policies and...
Global Interest in Student Behavior
An Examination of International Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
A cornerstone for effective teaching and learning is vested in the quality of the way in which students focus on the content of their lessons. The chapters in this book, then, offer cross-national perspectives on best practices when dealing with the challenge of student misconduct. The chapter authors,...
by Andrew Crossland
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
As a product of my own journey to being an outstanding practitioner, this book provides a route map in the facilitation of outstanding behaviour which in turn provides the underpinnings of outstanding learning.
If Mayors Ruled the World
Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The Fate of the West
The Battle to Save the World's Most Successful Political Idea
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The West seems to be in retreat--even from itself--and cracks have appeared in the structures of international collaboration built after 1945. We live in a time of disintegration and rekindling of old nationalisms.
Yet the end of the West has been predicted by academics, philosophers and rival...
Nation of Devils
Democratic Leadership and the Problem of Obedience
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
by Daniel Marques
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Child Education has been a subject of debate for many thousands of years but also widely studied in modern society.
Apart from all the studies being done, children apparently tend to show much more problems related to behavior and learning.
The need to find answers hasn’t provided parents and teachers...
Why Teach?
In Defense of a Real Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Mark Edmundson's essays reclaim college not as the province of high-priced tuition, career training, and interactive online courses, but as the place where serious people go to broaden their minds and learn to live the rest of their lives.
A renowned professor of English at the University of...
Outliving Your Dissertation
A Guide for Students and Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This guide focuses on the dissertation work as a step-by-step process and details the structure and the content of dissertation chapters. Unique to this edition is its conception of the dissertation in optimistic, realistic, and symbolic terms, which altogether provide theoretical basis and practical...
by Ludovic Highman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The book sets out to offer a national perspective on the complex changes occurring in European higher education systems. The Lisbon European Council (2000) set an ambitious target for the Union to become "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" with important...
by Mojca Kompara, Tomasz Stepien
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The book focuses on European Integration in the Field of Higher Education and Research, as well as the Implementation of the Bologna Process in Slovenia. The common policy of higher education and research belongs to the most important fields in the process of European integration and to the constitutive...
Quick and Easy Ways to Connect with Students and Their Parents, Grades K-8
Improving Student Achievement Through Parent Involvement
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The research is indisputable. The more involved parents are with their child’s education, the more successful that child will be in school. Therefore, finding ways as a teacher to reach out to students and their parents is crucial in improving academic performance.
Quick and Easy Ways to Connect...
The Idea of the University
A Reader, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 is a unique compilation of selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810....
You Can't Teach Us if You Don't Know Us and Care About Us
Becoming an Ubuntu, Responsive and Responsible Urban Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This book addresses the needs of diverse urban students for a new kind of teacher, classroom learning context, curriculum, and pedagogy in order to effectively learn, perform, and achieve. Drawing on the African concept of Ubuntu as a fundamental framework for enacting a humanizing pedagogy, the text...