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This book explores the perspectives of IEP meeting participants who work with students who are CLD. Interviews with teachers; a disability rights attorney; a transition services specialist; a guidance counselor, and others examine the crucial areas of cross-cultural interactions. Their experiences yield practical suggestions for improvement.

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This book explores the perspectives of IEP meeting participants who work with students who are CLD. Interviews with teachers; a disability rights attorney; a transition services specialist; a guidance counselor, and others examine the crucial areas of cross-cultural interactions. Their experiences yield practical suggestions for improvement.

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Based on a five-year study, this work uses excerpts from interviews to examine ten adolescents' reasoning or "groundedness" for choices they make about their future, and offers suggestions for improving guidance services.

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A guide to using Vygotsky's theories to support children and schools in special needs education. It pursues issues raised by a post-Vygotskian approach and which make important contributions to the development of the fields of policy and practice.

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Robbins (German, Central Missouri State U.) begins by introducing L. S. Vygotsky's (1896-1934) cultural-historical theory, which differs from sociocultural theory in the US, and draws on his Russian background and such thinkers as Spinoza and Marx. Then she moves across the disciplines that he contr

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Previously published as Miracle mindset.

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People come from all walks of life. This is a story about how everyone is different in their own way.

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In the academic, education and library worlds we have been using the term information literacy to cover a very broad spectrum of different types of literacies. And here is the most interesting thing: school librarians have been teaching these literacies forever under the terms of library skills and research skills.

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In the academic, education and library worlds we have been using the term information literacy to cover a very broad spectrum of different types of literacies. And here is the most interesting thing: school librarians have been teaching these literacies forever under the terms of library skills and research skills.

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An examination of the American public education system. A critique of both the teaching and the lack of accountability and quality control, Finn asks the reader to take control and reform the system by demanding that results be regulated through national standards, testing and curriculum.

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This is a timely book that explores the use by public schools of private education companies to meet the needs of some of the nations most challenged and challenging students. The book examines variations of use by states as well as the cultural attitudes toward the private sector to address these core functions of public schooling.

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This book utilizes a web-based learning model as the basis for professional development and technology training. Professional development is provided in the context of instructional activities that incorporate computers and web-based instructional resources to create authentic and challenging classroom instruction.

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Welcome to Poetryland: Teaching Poetry Writing to Young Children draws from Shelley Savren's forty years of teaching poetry writing in grades pre-K-6 and to focus populations, including gifted and special education students, students in after school programs, and homeless, abu...

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This book highlights the processes by which the poor in Africa have been disenfranchised and marginalized through schools' ascriptive mechanisms, and explains why African economic development is very slow.

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Western Higher Education in Asia and the Middle East examines the emergence of the global university in the Middle East and Asia, focusing in particular on the phenomenon of branch campuses and universities with foreign accreditation.