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by Tom Betsy
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?
Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's.
More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline...
Making Civics Count
Citizenship Education for a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
"By nearly every measure, Americans are less engaged in their communities and political activity than generations past.” So write the editors of this volume, who survey the current practices and history of citizenship education in the United States.
They argue that the current period...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
The second edition of the Handbook of Motivation at School presents an integrated compilation of theory and research in the field. With chapters by leading experts, this book covers the major theoretical perspectives in the field as well as their application to instruction, learning, and social adjustment...
by Murray Spiegel
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?
Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's.
More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's Outlines to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each...
Tackling Bullying in Athletics
Best Practices for Modeling Appropriate Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Bullying prevention is a priority for all who work with our youth in our schools, parks, organizations, and athletic fields. Tackling Bullying in Athletics will help athletic directors, coaches, parents, and all those who help youth enjoy the benefits of sports by detailing how they can provide a...
The Gap-Year Advantage
Helping Your Child Benefit from Time Off Before or During College
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
"I'm not ready for college yet..."
Those words need not cause panic and fear for parents. Taking time off before or during college is no longer the road less traveled for many students in the United States. A gap year offers students the opportunity to gain focus and discipline, learn...
Think Again
A Philosophical Approach to Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Contemporary education is held captive by an obsession with assessment. The culture of 'teaching-to-the-test' and 'spoon-feeding' has distorted the purpose of teaching and destroyed the joy of free enquiry.
This book offers practical advice on how to use philosophy as the cornerstone of a new...
Cockeyed Education
A Case Method Primer
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Should educators pay students? Should they make them wear sunglasses, regulate their clothing, allow them to bring animals into classrooms, discourage them from playing videogames, or transform their schools into gymnasiums? These are some of the suggestions that Cockeyed Education examines. This...
Restorative Justice in Urban Schools
Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The school-to-prison pipeline is often the path for marginalized students, particularly black males, who are three times as likely to be suspended as White students. This volume provides an ethnographic portrait of how educators can implement restorative justice to build positive school cultures and...
Educational Futures
Dominant and Contesting Visions
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
This book provides an overview and analysis of current tensions, debates and key issues within OECD nations, particularly Australia, the USA, Canada and the UK, with regard to where education is and should be going. Using a broad historical analysis, it investigates ideas and visions about the future...
Surmounting All Odds Vol. 1
Education, Opportunity, and Society in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Volume 1 in the two volume set about overcoming the odds in African American Education.
The Broken Cisterns of African American Education
Academic Performance and Achievement in the PostBrown Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The failure of American education to achieve racial diversity has resulted from the inability of educational researchers, policy makers and judicial officials to disentangle the complex definitions that have emerged in a postsegregated society. More specifically, the capricious aim of postsegregated...
Making the Connection
DataInformed Practices in Academic Support Centers for College Athletes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Making the Connection: DataInformed Practices in Academic Support Centers for College Athletes is practical and ideal for those who seek to use research to inform their individual and organizational practices. This volume is primarily intended for upperlevel undergraduate and graduate students, though...
The 'Other' Students
Filipino Americans, Education, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Though the Filipino American population has increased numerically in many areas of the United States, especially since the influx of professional immigrants in the wake of the 1965 Immigration Act, their impact on schools and related educational institutions has rarely been documented and examined. The...