Information Age Publishing: 1717 books
Indigenous Peoples
Education and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph of scholarly works that are seeking to advance knowledge and understanding of a diverse range of Indigenous or First Peoples across the globe. With the overarching emphasis...
The Testing Gap
Scientific Trials of TestDriven School Accountability Systems for Excellence and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
The objective of this book is to advance our understanding of the design, implementation and evaluation of testdriven external accountability policies for improving both academic excellence and equity. This book provides new insights into debates about the efficacy of highstakes testing through critical...
by Dale Griffee, Greta Gorsuch
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Typically, books on evaluation in the second and foreign language field deal with large programs and often result from large?scale studies done by the authors. The challenge for ordinary second and foreign language classroom teachers is that they must extrapolate techniques or strategies for evaluation...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Managing technological innovations and related policy and strategy issues have been a central focus of the new millennium. This book series presents an interdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue on the management of innovation and technological change in a global context from a variety of perspectives,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book is a critically important contribution to the work underway to transform schooling for students who have historically been denied access to a quality education, specifically African American children. The first section of the book provides some historical perspective critical to understanding...
Getting to Know Ourselves and Others Through the ABCs
A Journey Toward Intercultural Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This book is a valuable resource for teachers and other professionals who are looking for a proven way to increase cultural appreciation and awareness. New applications of the ABCs model of Cultural Understanding and Communication are presented and discussed in this new volume, based on studies done...
Rethinking Social Studies and History Education
Social Education through Alternative Texts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The book is unique in that it mixes theory and practical applications in rethinking traditional social studies education. It focuses on essays integrating media, popular culture, and alternative texts for teaching and learning in social studies and history education through a social education lens. Social...
Taking Your Course Online
An Interdisciplinary Journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This book focuses on online pedagogy and the challenges and opportunities incumbent in the transformation of a facetoface college course. It is intended as a resource and support for new online teachers a source of ideas and strategies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives as well as pedagogical...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
For decades teacher education researchers, organizations, and policy makers have called for improving teacher education by creating clinically based preparation programs (e.g. CAEP, 2013; Goodlad, 1990; Holmes, 1986, 1995; National Association for Professional Development Schools, 2008; National Council...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Why a book on gender issues in mathematics in the 21st century? Several factors have influenced the undertaking of this project by the editors. First, an international volume focusing on gender and mathematics has not appeared since publication of papers emerging from the 1996 International Congress...
Behavior Modeling Trainee Manual
Training for Developing Supervisory Skills
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
This Trainee Manual is designed to be used in conjunction with an instructordirected program based on material in Behavior Modeling Training for Developing Supervisory Skills: Instructor Manual, by the same author. Behaviormodeling training is a form of skilldevelopment training that is distinguished...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
How Stakeholders Can Support Teacher Quality compiles the proceedings from the Milken Family Foundation's National Education Conference (NEC), which took place in Washington, D.C., in May 2006. Each year, the NEC brings together practitioners, policymakers and private sector representatives to focus...
Education Redux
How to Make Schools Relevant to Our Children and Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Education Redux is a timely and incisive work answering the myriad of questions about the future of America. It is a general interest book of particular consequence to the current political and education debate. The U.S. is facing a surfeit of crises—social, political, economic and environmental....