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Assessment, technology, and racial discrimination are three status quos that negatively impact the way educators teach and how students learn. The education system must change and courage is required to speak out against ideas and practices that do not work so we can improve learning for all students.

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Assessment, technology, and racial discrimination are three status quos that negatively impact the way educators teach and how students learn. The education system must change and courage is required to speak out against ideas and practices that do not work so we can improve learning for all students.

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This volume sets out to establish some parameters for the study of creativity. The authors examine earlier studies and present their own research findings on: the biological aspects of creativity, genes and memes, and notions of coincidence and transformation.

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Focusing on world-historical events of empire, revolution, war, and peace, this work shows how American reformers invented a new politics built around progressive internationalism. It retrieves the progressive tradition in American politics and makes it available to contemporary debates.

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This is a book about educational leadership. It tells the stories of 7 educational leaders who made the difficult decision to change their school to public charter school status.

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Changing Tomorrow 3: Leadership Curriculum for High-Ability Students offers instructional activities for high-ability high school students based on the Common Core State Standards that emphasize critical and creative thinking skills and gives gifted students an opportunity to apply these skills in an integrative and substantive way.

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Introduces the debate surrounding teaching and learning in urban settings in contemporary Britain, and the impact this has on education. This text considers the way we approach teaching and learning in the urban context and examines the debates concerning developments in wider social, cultural, political and economic contexts.

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The idea of a Channel tunnel has been supported in Britain by those wanting closer links with Europe but opposed by believers in the island's identity. The French have been almost unanimously in favour. This account covers historical attempts to build a link with France.

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Author identifies the characteristics of 'liberation propaganda' through the coverage and experience of the two Lebanese TV stations Tele Liban and Al Manar within the historical, cultural, organisational and religious contexts in which they operated, and how these elements shaped their professional practice and their news values.

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While the book emphasizes the usefulness of the conceptual tools of chaos theory in critical criminology and law, its ultimate goal goes beyond theory-building to provide vistas for understanding the contemporary social scene and for the development of the new just society.

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While the book emphasizes the usefulness of the conceptual tools of chaos theory in critical criminology and law, its ultimate goal goes beyond theory-building to provide vistas for understanding the contemporary social scene and for the development of the new just society.

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The purpose of this book is to provide teachers, principals, professors and students preparing for teaching the foundation - conceptual, theoretical, and methodological - they will need to be effective planners and evaluators of character education programmes and character educators.

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The purpose of this book is to provide teachers, principals, professors and students preparing for teaching the foundation - conceptual, theoretical, and methodological - they will need to be effective planners and evaluators of character education programmes and character educators.

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In this book Robert A. Strong reviews six case studies of significant foreign policy decisions during the presidency of George H. W. Bush and explores the ways in which the presidents personality and character influenced those decisions.

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This collection provides teachers and librarians with Readers Theatre scripts to promote and reinforce character education. Readers Theatre scripts are grouped by grade level and age-appropriate theme.

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Character Development focuses on the creation of fully-realized, multidimensional protagonists and antagonists. Students practice first-drafting, editing, polishing, and sharing original paragraphs, scenes, and stories featuring the characters they have brought to life.

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Each of the 17 chapters focuses on a specific trait or virtue and identifies dozens of picture books, novels, biographies, and nonfiction titles that illustrate the trait and can be used as springboards to discussions.