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Book cover of The Impact of Reform Instruction on Student Mathematics Achievement

The Impact of Reform Instruction on Student Mathematics Achievement

An Example of a Summative Evaluation of a Standards-Based Curriculum

by Thomas A. Romberg, Mary C. Shafer
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008

Summarizing data derived from a four-year combined longitudinal/ cross-sectional comparative study of the implementation of one standards-based middle school curriculum program, Mathematics in Context, this book demonstrates the challenges of conducting comparative longitudinal research in the reality...
Book cover of From the Pleistocene to the Holocene

From the Pleistocene to the Holocene

Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America

by James M Adovasio, Charlotte Beck, Michael Bever
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...
Book cover of Privilege and Diversity in the Academy
by Frances A. Maher, Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013

Over the past several decades, higher education has been transformed by the entry of faculty of color and women into the university system. Through detailed institutional ethnographies of three very different universities, Privilege and Diversity in the Academy explores how this diversification has...
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The Fire Horse

A Historic Look at Horses and Firefighting

by Gloria A Austin, Mary Chris Foxworthy
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018

Of all the discussions about working horses, the fire department horse always brings up stories of heroic horses and the love the firemen had for them. The fire horse’s history was not very long. However, the history of horse-drawn fire engines is rich with the greatness of the horse. Whether...
Book cover of Preventing Lethal School Violence
by Jeffrey A. Daniels, Mary C. Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011

Bullying. Gang assaults. Rampage shootings. School violence, especially when it turns deadly, has enduring social and psychological effects on students, faculty, staff, and the community. And though a great deal of research focuses on the significant role children’s positive social development plays...
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Nursing Education in Thanatology

A Curriculum Continuum

by Florence E. Selder, Virginia W. Barrett, Marilyn M. Rawnsley
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015

Nursing Education in Thanatology is an excellent source book for planning thanatology courses or for integrating concepts of thanatology into a nursing curriculum. As the formal teaching of thanatology in schools for health care professionals is generally overlooked and ill-defined, many students...
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One Horn to Rule Them All

A Purple Unicorn Anthology

by Lisa Mangum, Todd McCaffrey, Peter S. Beagle
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014

Unicorns, with their single ivory horn, are elusive and magical creatures of myth. Yet even more elusive are the purple unicorns. First sighted at the Superstars Writing Seminar, their legend has grown year after year until it could only be contained in this anthology. Nineteen storytellers,...
Book cover of The European Cruises of the Rob Roy
by Mary Titcomb, A H Guernsey, H M Alden
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012

Three short pieces take us on a tour of mid nineteenth century Europe in a solo sail. The Cruise of the Rob Roy takes us around Europe in a one man canoe. Macgregor visits France, Germany, Switzerland along canals, rivers and lakes. The Rob Roy in the Baltic is another of MacGregor's canoe trips....
Book cover of The Idea of a Human Rights Museum
by Angela Failler, Clint Curle, Christopher Powell
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015

"The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural...
Book cover of American Catholics and Civic Engagement
by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, W Shepherdson Abell, Kirk Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with the Commonweal Foundation and with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding...
Book cover of Reproductive Technologies
by David Adamson, Lori B. Andrews, Robert Boostanfar
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2003

Over a decade ago the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional societies,...
Book cover of The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Book cover of Bilingual and ESL Classrooms

Bilingual and ESL Classrooms

Teaching in Multicultural Contexts

by Mary Carol Combs, Eugene E. García, Carlos J. Ovando
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018

Now in its 6th Edition, this classic text integrates theory and practice to provide comprehensive coverage of bilingual and ESL education. The text covers the foundations of bilingual and ESL education and provides a strong focus on what the teacher needs to know in a bilingual classroom. Woven throughout...
Book cover of Two Faiths, One Covenant?

Two Faiths, One Covenant?

Jewish and Christian Identity in the Presence of the Other

by Dianne Bergant, Mary C. Boys, Yehuda Gellman
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2004

Judaism and Christianity are religions bound together by their claims to the same biblical covenant initiated by God with Abraham and his descendants. Yet, despite the inseparable connection between the election of Israel and that of the church, between the "old" and the "new"...
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