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The Truth About Special Education
A Guide for Parents and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
Few parents and educators understand special education_its terms, philosophies, and process. This easy-to-read book contains a step-by-step discussion of the special education process and has hundreds of additional resources for parents including professional organizations, support groups, and useful...
by Geoffrey Caine, Renate Nummela Caine
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2001
Everyone agrees that improving education is vital, but people disagree on what to do. Business, parents, politicians, the media and educators all voice strong and conflicting opinions. The public needs to have the issues clarified, and to see a path that will work. There ARE ways to raise standards,...
by Elaine B. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2003
Today, many public schools, especially rural and inner-city areas, are so fraught with violence, so impersonal, and so poorly funded that they drive students away rather than inspire them to learn. Most people do not realize that the school system they knew when they were growing up is now in the...
From Teamwork to Excellence
Labor and Economic Factors Affecting Educators
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
From Teamwork to Excellence: Labor and Economic Factors Affecting Educators is a great book for anyone interested in team building. In order to work as a team, educators need to know the contributions that each member of the team provides to build a successful school. They need to know what their...
Stealing from the Mother
The Marginalization of Women in Education and Psychology from 1900-2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
This book is the only available compilation of women in education and psychology whose work has been marginalized, forgotten, or attributed to their male colleagues. This resource includes women from the progressive era (1900-1950), the psychological period (1950-2000), and the political period (2000-2010)....
Standing Together
American Indian Education as Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
The majority of American Indian students attend public schools in the United States. However, education mandated for American Indian students since the 1800s has been primarily education for assimilation, with the goal of eliminating American Indian cultures and languages. Indeed, extreme measures...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 1990
This collection of papers presents ideas and research that helps to find a link between the retarded child's educational setting and the onset of delinquency. The first section presents the impacts of the judicial system on the mentally retarded offender, and researcher attempts to find a relationship...
Transforming Special Education Practices
A Primer for School Administrators and Policy Makers
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Superintendents, central office administrators, principals, school board members and students in the field of education will find this book to be useful in guiding their own professional development and practice. The authors cover a variety of useful topics in special education, ranging from finances,...
Embracing Risk in Urban Education
Curiosity, Creativity, and Courage in the Era of "No Excuses" and Relay Race Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
At a time when American urban public education is under broad attack, and in which America is perceived as a nation**at risk that is losing the race to the Top, educators and politicians from across the spectrum are promoting increased emphasis on standardized testing, business models of school reform,...
Benjamin S. Bloom
Portraits of an Educator
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Few individuals in the history of education have had greater impact on educational policy and practice than Benjamin S. Bloom. During a career that spanned over five decades, his research and writing guided the development of innumerable educational programs and provided powerful insights into the...
Avoiding the Demise of Democracy
A Cautionary Tale for Teachers and Principals
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
In the seventies, countries lauded American education as one of the best systems in the world. Then came the accountability movement. What was measured was what counted. Those who measured low were punished. Those who measured high were rewarded. With measurements came the loss of emphasis on the...
It's the Classroom, Stupid
A Plan to Save America's Schoolchildren
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
This book presents a bold, unconventional plan to rescue our nation's schoolchildren from a failing public education system. The plan reflects the author's rare fusion of on-the-ground experience as school board member, public administrator and political activist and exhaustive policy research. The...
Labor Relations in Education
Policies, Politics, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Collective bargaining in the public schools of the nation has its legal roots in the industrial labor model fashioned in the 1930s out of labor strife between union organizers and private businesses. This industrial union labor model was transplanted almost wholesale into the public sector over fifty...
Financial and Managerial Accounting for School Administrators
Superintendents, School Business Administrators and Principals
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2003
Widely acknowledged as the most respected reference on school accounting, this book offers clear, detailed explanations of financial accounting and reporting as they apply to school system fund structures. Whether they are new to the field or have a background in accounting, school business officials...