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Inequality, Power and School Success
Case Studies on Racial Disparity and Opportunity in Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This volume highlights issues of power, inequality, and resistance for Asian, African American, and Latino/a students in distinct U.S. and international contexts. Through a collection of case studies it links universal issues relating to inequality in education, such as Asian, Latino, and African...
by Rebecca Jury
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Offering 10 steps to obtaining an arts degree at a New Zealand university, this handbook serves as a roadmap for students to discover success in college. From finding the best snacks on campus to realizing your lecturer is a fellow human being, this guide answers the important questions, including...
Educated for Change?
Muslim Refugee Women in the West
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Educated for Change?: Muslim Women in the West inserts Muslim women’s voice and action into the bifurcated, and otherwise male dominated, relations between the West and the Islamic East. A multilayered, multisite, educational ethnography, Buck and Silver’s study takes a novel approach to its feminist...
Alumni Associations
A Simple Guide To Why And How
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Are you thinking about establishing an alumni association, or do you want to grow and improve your existing alumni association?This book is prime reading material for anyone in education who is interested in developing the community relations of their school or organisation. In particular, the concept...
Is College a Lousy Investment?
Negotiating the Hidden Costs of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Is College a Lousy Investment?: Negotiating the Hidden Cost of Higher Education discusses many of the economic misconceptions about earning a college degree. While it is widely believed that attending college guarantees wealth and success, students, concerned parents, and higher education professionals...
The Laughing Guide to Well-Being
Using Humor and Science to Become Happier and Healthier
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Do you experience stress? Are you interested in better health and well-being? Do you pursue happiness? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you need to read this book. If you answered no, you’re in denial. All of us can use a little help to become happier or healthier. Unfortunately, the...
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...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Learn all about how scholarship programs are designed to support the students in all of their educational needs!
Scholarship programs where designed to support the students in all of their educational needs. These educational financial supports were created to support the students in the process...
Look Before Leaping
Risks, Liabilities, and Repair of Study Abroad in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Look before Leaping merges court trends and cases, experts’ first-hand accounts and recommendations of best practices, currently used risk-averting documents, and essential texts to bring a comprehensive study of the most common risks, liabilities, and needed repair for study abroad in higher education.
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Teaching Girls
How Teachers and Parents Can Reach Their Brains and Hearts
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Women continue to be underrepresented in the high paying fields of science, math, and engineering. They receive only about 80% of the salary of men holding similar jobs in any field and still face glass ceilings that limit their attainment. How do we educate and empower girls to surmount these barriers...
The Hidden Link Between Vision and Learning
Why Millions of Learning-Disabled Children Are Misdiagnosed
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Vision, in all its complexity, is more than meets the eye. The knowledge that lies between the covers of this book will define, with depth and clarity, what this magnificent sense actually encompasses and why it is critical to the learning process. Far beyond 20/20, vision involves more than two-dozen...
News Literacy
Helping Students and Teachers Decode Fake News
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Our society faces international challenges from cyber attacks and dissemination of fake news with a goal to destabilize our society. Fake news can be used as a weapon with destructive effects as powerful as any military attack. Fake news can spread as fast as a wildfire carried on the winds of social...
Girls and Exclusion
Rethinking the Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
The widespread view that girls are succeeding in education and are therefore 'not a problem' is a myth. By drawing directly on girls' own accounts and experiences of school life and those of professionals working with disaffected youth, this book offers startling new perspectives on the issue of exclusion...
by Peter Borghesi
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This is a memoir about a man who makes a significant career change in his fifties. He goes from a successful career in the corporate world to being a new teacher in an inner-city public school, a teacher to children with autism. The story largely follows his first year of teaching as he struggles...