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Administrators, teachers, and parents who are dedicated to the best interests, social development, and academic success of their children can accomplish great things by using a wide variety of creatively humorous approaches.

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Organized into an easy-to-follow, month-by-month plan for implementation, this book provides field-tested and research-based knowledge that will serve educators as they create and maintain a meaningful Makerspace.

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Supervision frameworks tend to lack the ability to identify, address, and provide feedback about how racial, cultural, and socioeconomic factors contribute to the sociocultural gap that so often exists between teachers and students in the US. To accomplish this, however, a mo...

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Dale Borman Fink, the author of the only book on inclusion of youth with special needs in after school child care, now presents the first book to examine the experiences of children with disabilities participating in youth programs alongside their typical peers. Using a case study technique, he prob

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This book focuses on helping children become self-reliant thinkers and decision-makers. The exercises are practice runs to be presented in a casual atmosphere where students share their thinking and receive educator guidance. Educators will learn that observing their students thinking processes can provide insight into their decision-making.

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This book focuses on helping children become self-reliant thinkers and decision-makers. The exercises are practice runs to be presented in a casual atmosphere where students share their thinking and receive educator guidance. Educators will learn that observing their students thinking processes can provide insight into their decision-making.

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Offers an understanding of why boys behave as they do along with a multitude of tried-and-tested approaches for encouraging positive behaviour. This book is suitable for teachers, those working with children and teenagers, undergraduate and postgraduate Education students, PGCE students, headteachers, and policy makers.

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This book makes unique contributions to the field of practice and understanding of job-embedded learning as it presents findings from seven dissertations that examined aspects of professional learning embedded in preK-12 schools.

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This book makes unique contributions to the field of practice and understanding of job-embedded learning as it presents findings from seven dissertations that examined aspects of professional learning embedded in preK-12 schools.

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Making Mentoring Work is a practical guide for school leaders interested in beginning or enhancing their mentoring programs for new teachers. Readers can use the mentoring program rubric to pre-assess their program and then choose the chapters that correspond to areas of growth.

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Making Mentoring Work is a practical guide for school leaders interested in beginning or enhancing their mentoring programs for new teachers. Readers can use the mentoring program rubric to pre-assess their program and then choose the chapters that correspond to areas of growth.

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The 1944 Education Act provided the framework for the post-war education service, which remained intact until the legislative changes of 1988 to 1993. Barber evaluates and pays tribute to the skill and vision for the future that went into the creation of this durable piece of legislation.

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Bringing change to our public school system is hard, and the current system of education governance creates barriers that can make that reform even harder.

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Contributors treat issues of evaluation and testing, and conclude by addressing the potential of collaborative efforts.

Responding to a major challenge, community groups and organizations throughout the country are seeking answers to the problem of underachieving minority students.

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This book is the culmination of extensive discussions among a panel of economists led by Eric Hanushek. They conclude that economic considerations have been entirely absent from the development of educational policies and that economic reality is sorely needed in discussions of new policies. The book outlines an improvement plan that emphasizes changing incentives in schools.

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This work is a study of the sociological and political implications of adult education and adult learning theories and practices through the lens of race, class, gender, language, culture and sexual orientation.

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This work is a study of the sociological and political implications of adult education and adult learning theories and practices through the lens of race, class, gender, language, culture and sexual orientation.

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Making the Case for Race in Middle School advances the argument that providing youth with the opportunity to think critically about the pervasive dynamics of race in society, and in their own lives, is an essential element of teacher pedagogy in a multiracial democracy.

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This book contains a compilation of best practices in special education.

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Christian missionaries, secular cultural elite, and the government have served as three major forces pushing American cultural values and political idealism abroad, although each has emphasized different elements of AmericanismChristian beliefs, individualism, democracy, and free enterprisein championing American leadership.