Information Age Publishing imprint: 1717 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Strong systemwide support is increasingly being identified as laying an important role in policy efforts aimed at increasing student achievement (Hightower, Knapp, March, and McLaughlin: 2002). Yet current research often views district and other systemwide support as largely governance changes without...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
Recipient of AERA Outstanding Contributions Relating Theory to Practice Award: Interpretive Scholarship for 2004 This is the second in a series of monographs by the Family, School, Community Partnership (FSCP) Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. Parent involvement,...
by Petra A. Robinson, Ayana Allen-Handy, Amber Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
In 2014, The Urban Education Collaborative at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte hosted its first biennial International Conference on Urban Education (ICUE) in Montego Bay, Jamaica. In 2016, the second hosting of the conference took place in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Additionally, in 2018,...
Autoethnography as a Lighthouse
Illuminating Race, Research, and the Politics of Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
This work uses autoethnography as an enterprise to deconstruct barriers that support the invisibility of diverse epistemologies. The reality of invisibility and silence has plagued "unvalued others" in their attempt to make known the cultural significance found in the planning and execution of research....
Globalization on the Margins
Education and PostSocialist Transformations in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The essays in Globalization on the Margins explore the continuities and changes in Central Asian education development since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Reflecting on two decades of postsocialist transformations, they reveal that education systems in Central Asia responded to the rapidly...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Gender, Communication, and the Leadership Gap is the sixth volume in the Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice series. This crossdisciplinary series, from the International Leadership Association, enhances leadership knowledge and improves leadership development of women around the world....
Inspiring Student Writers
Strategies and Examples for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Getting our students to write and write well is a process Tom Scheft explains and explores—offering practical and theoretical guidance, while providing uplifting, thought provoking examples of a writing assignment for students middle grades through master’s level. An invaluable supplemental text...
Teaching about Genocide
Issues, Approaches, and Resources
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Mobile Makes Learning Free
Building Conceptual, Professional and School Capacity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The book provides new conceptual frameworks to understand good practice in the field of mobile learning. The book fills a gap in the current literature by drawing on examples of best practice from leading schools in the United States, Canada and Australia. The author visited thirty educational sites...
Literature Reviews Made Easy
A Quick Guide to Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
This book is designed to help you achieve one specific goal. It’s not designed to give you the philosophies of conducting research. It’s not designed to give you a background in a specific academic discipline or a specific topic. It’s not designed to give you theory. It’s designed specifically...
Best Practices of Online Education
A Guide for Christian Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
The book provides best practices from online educators who are engaged in online teaching and program development in Christian higher education. It also explores the distinct aspects of teaching and developing online courses and programs from a Christian perspective and within Christian higher education...
Control is Not a Four?Letter Word!
Establishing Positive Classroom Behavior for the Year in the First Five Days
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Teachers provide today's youth with the tools to become a positive part of society. Whether they are successful or not determines the fate of our civilization. Unfortunately, teacher training does not completely prepare the individual for this crucial role. All teachers need to: > Know the student and...
Leadership from the Ground Up
Effective Schooling in Traditionally Low Performing Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This book chronicles the journey of seven schools serving students of poverty, English Language Learners (ELLs), and students of color, which were able to sustain school improvement for a decade on either state and/or national criteria that measure student performance outcomes. The book shares stories...
Our Stories, Ourselves
The Embodyment of Women’s Learning in Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Women’s lives are often written on our bodies. Yet very little is made of the impacts of embodiment for women in literacy education, both learners and professionals. This volume presents the writings of 26 contributors—teachers, students, and administrators—who examine the rich terrain of personal...