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Ecopolis has students run their own government to learn about issues including scarcity, resource allocation, needs vs. wants, opportunity costs, entrepreneurship, and global interdependence.

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This book with illustrations is for preschool age kids learning the alphabet

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Based on ethnographic studies in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, this book explores the edges of the global transformative forces that are associated with the neoliberal order of today. At the edge, the situation is characterized by uncertainty, despair, hope, and vulnerability as old social patterns are consumed and new emerge.

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Brings together seven of Wendy Brown's essays in political and cultural theory that range from explorations of politics post-9/11 to critical reflections on the academic norms governing feminist studies and political theory. This work is also concerned with the intellectual and political value of critique itself. Each essay probes a problem.

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Statesman, political thinker, orator and ardent campaigner, Edmund Burke was one of the greatest minds of the eighteenth century. His ideas and principles were expressed in the great debates over liberty, the rights of man and the American and French Revolutions, and are among the most important in modern history.

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Offers an account of the political work of Edmund Burke. This title includes an intellectual biography, historical context, critical exposition on Burke's work, reception and influence, contemporary relevance, bibliography including references to electronic resources and an index.

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Although he held only minor offices in Parliament, politician and political writer Edmund Burke strongly affected contemporary opinion, and his ideas had a profound impact on the future.

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This book includes 180 creatively designed screen-free activities teachers can implement to maximize authentic hands-on learning in their classroom. Chapter topics include promoting peace by empowering students to handle conflict through kindness, literacy centers, STEM challenges, and ways to build connections beyond the classroom door.

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This compelling book chronicles the challenges faced by Anatolia College, whose rich history provides a unique window on the American missionary movement, the Armenian genocides, the Greek-Turkish conflict, and two world wars from the prism of the survival and growth of an American college caught in near-perpetual upheaval.

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Using a combination of case studies and research, the contributors of this timely book highlight some of the significant issues, historical, curricular, and societal, that have led to African American students having a proportionally larger representation in special education ...

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The author, a student of Tyler's while teaching school in Chicago, brings the insider's perspective to Tyler's work.

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Where is Australian schooling headed What forces will shape its future direction How ready are students, teachers, policy makers and education institutions for the challenges being thrust on them In this edited collection, these questions are addressed by some of Australia's leading education researchers, practitioners and policy entrepreneurs.

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Educating Boys is a comprehensive, practical look at how we educate our boys in New Zealand - what's working and what isn't, from kindergarten right through to secondary school.

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With increasing numbers of parents choosing to educate their children at home, an opportunity exists to explore education outside the school environment. Focusing on informal learning, this text examines in depth how children can acquire an education simply through everyday experiences.

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The United States is in the midst of historic experiments with publicly funded choice in K-12 education, experiments that recently received a ""green light"" from the Supreme Court.

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This collection of groundbreaking studies breaks with the tradition of gauging inequality by looking 'down' at at-risk or poverty-disadvantaged schools and shifts the gaze of inquiry 'up' toward the experiences of privilege in educational environments characterized by wealth and the abundance of material resources.

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All must be re-educated in their approaches toward business for the United States to again be a world leader.

The book focuses on a number of the intertwined issues of business and education, providing general examples of problems followed by suggestions for effective yet inexpensive solutions.

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This book offers both theoretical overviews and practical approaches for educators, academics, education students and parents who are interested in transforming schools. It encourages reinvigorating approaches to learning and teaching that can easily be integrated into both pu...

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Educating Gifted Students in Middle School: A Practical Guide (3rd ed.) helps educators with the challenging task of understanding and meeting the needs of gifted students in middle school. Topics addressed include school organization, instructional strategies in the basic subject areas, cocurricular and summer programs, the missing link