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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This book is written by a diverse cohort of American educators, including professors, teachers, and school administrators from preK to college levels. They come from disciplinary areas of child development, special education, English as a second language, counseling, technology, school administration,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Teacher preparation programs in the United States and around the world have finally begun to address this deficiency in their programs. The realization that technology is a powerful driving force in education coupled with a renewed emphasis on teacher preparation by governments have resulted in some...
Improving Student Achievement
Reforms that Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Improving Student Achievement: Reforms that Work expands on the first volume in the Milken Family Foundation series on education policy, Talented Teachers: The Essential Force for Improving Student Achievement. The series explains to policymakers, parents, business leaders, and teachers the importance...
Efficiency, Accountability, and Equity
Issues in Title 1 School Wide Program Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
How efficient is Title I, the largest federal educational program in elementary and secondary schools? What is the quality of the Title I services? Has Title I promoted equity in schools among our nation’s lowincome areas? To address these important issues, this volume draws on the proceedings of two...
Making a Positive Impact in Rural Places
Change Agency in the Context of School-University-Community Collaboration in Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Following on from the preceding volume in this series that focused on innovation and implementation in the context of school-university-community collaborations in rural places, this volume explores the positive impact of such collaborations in rural places, focusing specifically on the change agency...
Resisting Reform
Reclaiming Public Education through Grassroots Activism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This book is a poignant celebration of grassroots empowerment as our contributors, people who just a short time ago thought of themselves as ordinary citizens, document their call to action when their children and their profession are on the line. Practicing teachers and parents who see the direct...
The State Role in School Turnaround
Emerging Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
With chapters written by leading researchers and practitioners actively engaged in the work, this Edited Volume examines the role of the state education agency in school turnaround efforts. An emphasis is placed on practical application of research and best practice related to the State Education Agency’s...
High Stakes Accountability
Implications for Resources and Capacity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
In this third volume of Research in Education Fiscal Policy and Practice, editors Jennifer King Rice and Christopher Roellke have assembled a diversity of research studies focused on the current policy environment of high stakes accountability and how this context has impacted educators and students...
Recovery the Native Way
A Therapist's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
In recent years, there has been a growing awareness that Native clients who suffer from substance abuse often face challenges that are distinct from those experienced by the mainstream population. For a number of years, I have been involved in research involving Native alcoholism and I have recently...
Intercultural Competence in Instructed Language Learning
Bridging Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
There is pressure on world language educators to prepare learners with 21st century skills to meet the challenges of an increasingly interconnected globalized world. The need for change was summarized in the 2007 report of the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages that suggested the implementation...
by Shawgi Tell
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
What is a charter school? Where do they come from? Who promotes them, and why? What are they supposed to do? Are they the silver bullet to the ills plaguing the American public education system? This book provides a comprehensive and accessible overview and analysis of charter schools and their many...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The servicelearning field is 50 years old in the United States. Much has been developed over that time in the fields of K12 schooling, higher education, and community organizations. People who have been involved in the movement have worked individually and collaboratively to include servicelearning as...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The Research on Women and Education SIG of the American Educational Research Association presents the third book in its series, Gender and Early Learning Environments. Finding after the publication of Gender and Schooling in the Early Years, the second book in the series, that there was and is a paucity...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
In this volume, gender and schooling in the early years addresses a broad range of issues including, but not limited, to gender equity in education. We explore, for example, the complex world of play in Fromberg's chapter and are reminded that for young children, play involves issues of power and hierarchy...