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Deficient urban schooling remains one of America's most pressing - and stubborn - public policy problems. This important new book details and evaluates a radical and promising new approach to K-12 education reform. Strife and Progress explains for a broad audience the ""portfolio strategy"" for providing urban education - its rationale, implementation, and results.

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Stronger Writing Skills for Teens offers middle and high school teachers strategies, techniques, and materials for teaching adolescent writing. It focuses on quality writing instruction and presents the modes of writing as defined by Common Core State Standards, with strategies, tips, and suggestions for teaching each mode.

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Stronger Writing Skills for Teens offers middle and high school teachers strategies, techniques, and materials for teaching adolescent writing. It focuses on quality writing instruction and presents the modes of writing as defined by Common Core State Standards, with strategies, tips, and suggestions for teaching each mode.

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Structural Challenges and the Future of Honors Education is the third volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. The contributors here examine the structural challenges honors education currently faces a...

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Structural Challenges and the Future of Honors Education is the third volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. The contributors here examine the structural challenges honors education currently faces a...

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This practical textbook bridges the gap between theory and practice by providing K12 preservice teachers with the information and methods related content needed to successfully assess, plan, and implement structured literacy instruction and intervention in the classroom.

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Struggling with Substance Use presents evidence on the magnitude of the problem of student substance abuse and provides education professionals with information on the causes as well as the risk and protective factors that must be understood to address the issue. Topics examin...

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Struggling with Substance Use presents evidence on the magnitude of the problem of student substance abuse and provides education professionals with information on the causes as well as the risk and protective factors that must be understood to address the issue. Topics examin...

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This volume explores the social, economic and political histories of four primarily rural and poor school systems in the American Southeast. An underlying conviction of the author is that local histories and cultures importantly affect the types of school improvement interests, efforts and successes possible in American schools;

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This handbook offers a practical guide to all aspects of planning, evaluating, and implementing student activities. After establishing a basic foundation, they describe activities in specific areas: performance activities, student leadership, and class-related clubs and trips.

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This book investigates blogs as digital spaces where students can practice writing and converse with an authentic audience. It focuses on idea development and gives students voice.

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This book investigates blogs as digital spaces where students can practice writing and converse with an authentic audience. It focuses on idea development and gives students voice.

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This book helps the reader put a stop to high-tech and more traditional low-tech forms of cheating and plagiarism. It explains how to recognize the danger signs for cheating and how to identify material that has been copied.

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Turmoil in higher education has mounted in South Africa to a level wherein black institutions have been virtually paralyzed by conflict and occasionally transformed into armed garrisons.

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A guide for school systems to help them understand why protecting student data privacy is a critical responsibility for the entire organization.

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A guide for school systems to help them understand why protecting student data privacy is a critical responsibility for the entire organization.

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Student Discipline is a book for Pre-K-12 educators and those who do professional development regarding discipline practices. The core chapters will provide a concise overview of evidence or praxis-based programs and approaches that are currently in use and have yielded real r...

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Student Discipline is a book for Pre-K-12 educators and those who do professional development regarding discipline practices. The core chapters will provide a concise overview of evidence or praxis-based programs and approaches that are currently in use and have yielded real r...

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Diversified schools, in which students of various racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic characteristics are balanced, have a positive contextual effect on achievement for all groups compared to schools with homogeneous student bodies that tend to help affluent, white students and harm poor students and students of color.

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Diversified schools, in which students of various racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic characteristics are balanced, have a positive contextual effect on achievement for all groups compared to schools with homogeneous student bodies that tend to help affluent, white students and harm poor students and students of color.

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Student Dress Codes and the First Amendment: Legal Challenges and Policy Issues explores the legal issues that arise when a school prohibits various types of student attire. Administrators must respect a students constitutional right to free speech, yet still maintain an environment that is conducive to learning, thus often creating conflicts.