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by Adam Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Ever wanted to know what the people who impact the world think? This is your chance. Open the book and find out. Absorb the knowledge in this book and soon enough you will find yourself at 1%. It will take hard work a dedication, but as everything in this life it will pay off, so just start.
Random Musings
Reflections of a Black Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Random Musings: Reflections of a Black Intellectual focuses on the various racial and cultural challenges facing African-Americans in the context of present day educational, political, and historical realities. The text touches on a wide array of issues, including the psychology of race and power,...
Community College Student Success
From Boardrooms to Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Student Success: From Board Rooms to Classrooms analyzes the emerging body of scholarly research on student success in an accessible and readable way that community college leaders will find both interesting and relevant. To further illustrate the connections between research and practice, case studies...
Innovative Ideas for School Business Officials
Best Practices from ASBO's Pinnacle Awards
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
School business officials are known for their innovative, meaningful contributions to the improvement of their profession and the efficiency of school entities. The ASBO International Pinnacle Awards were established to recognize outstanding practices and new ideas that result in significant contributions...
The Best Schools
How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Educators, politicians, parents, and even students are consumed with speaking the language of academic achievement. Yet something is missing in the current focus on accountability, standardized testing, and adequate yearly progress. If schools continue to focus the conversation on rigor and accountability...
Preserving the Public in Public Schools
Visions, Values, Conflicts, and Choices
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
What's public about public schools? Why do we invest in educating the next generation of Americans? What is it that drives our common purpose in educating children and at the same time divides us so passionately about how to educate them? Public schools have little to do with children. Schools are...
The Global Achievement Gap
Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need-and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Bestselling education expert Tony Wagner's groundbreaking manifesto on how to reform our schools and educate our children for the twenty-first century global economy
In The Global Achievement Gap, education expert Tony Wagner situates our school problems in the larger context of the demands...
How to be a "HIP" College Campus
Maximizing Learning in Undergraduate Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Through the voices of dozens of seasoned college faculty and junior and senior students, this book shares insights and practical examples on how a college campus can be “HIP”—utilizing high-impact educational practices widely and effectively. The book’s strength is numerous hands-on examples...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Structural Challenges and the Future of Honors Education is the third volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without...
Addressing the Needs of All Learners in the Era of Changing Standards
Helping Our Most Vulnerable Students Succeed through Teaching Flexibility, Innovation, and Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
The new standards were written to address the harsh realities for poor performance of American students across all grades levels, k-12. According to NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) data, more than 60% of our students in grades 4, 8, and 12 are not proficient readers and the United...
On Being a Teacher
The Human Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
On Being a Teacher links teaching to the unique human characteristics that each person possesses. Written with the preservice, beginning, and veteran teacher in mind, the authors help educators discover their own special traits that make them superlative teachers. This book covers:
Research-based...
Improving Test Scores in Five Easy Steps
The Silver Bullet
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
The chapters in this book outline a plan that, if followed, will improve test scores in any school district. The amount of improvement is determined by various variables, including present level of achievement, previous implementation of some of these concepts, the level of implementation, the vision...
by Hazel Pennell, Anne West
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
There is greater pressure for schools to meet certain levels of pupil achievement now more than ever before. Teachers and policy-makers are looking for ways to ensure pupils are not underachieving, and to do this must have some understanding of the causes of underachievement.
This timely book...
Working in the Reggio Way
A Beginner's Guide for American Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Provides an introduction to the progressive educational approaches of Reggio Emilia, Italy Newsweek devoted 1991 cover story to Reggio Emilia preschools For teachers of infants through early elementary Reggio-inspired teaching is characterized by parental involvement, teachers as learners, long-term...