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Sweeping changes in work and academe are threatening placement centers with irrelevancy. Freeman presents specific ideas for invigorating old programs and creating dynamic new ones, offers a redefinition of the external relationships, applies process reengineering to strategy, and presents a vision of placement centers linked with learning.

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How MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a small technical school into a major research university.

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A growing number of North American teachers are starting to teach abroad. This collection combines personal experiences of teachers of varying backgrounds, global placement, and teaching assignments, with practical resources such as listings of recruiting agencies, job fairs, and salary guidelines.

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This book shows you what you can look forward to as a school building administrator, takes you through the wild and unpredictable situations as they play out, and offers suggestions for how to handle these issues going forward. So, if you are a school building administrator, a...

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This book shows you what you can look forward to as a school building administrator, takes you through the wild and unpredictable situations as they play out, and offers suggestions for how to handle these issues going forward. So, if you are a school building administrator, a...

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This book is a learning device for teaching kids their ABC's and help with learning more about technology.

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This well-written and highly informative guide provides teachers and trainees with practical strategies for teaching gifted and talented children.

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Shows that the communist system in science and higher education was created less by an intentionally-imposed Soviet model than by the pressures and agendas developed within communist societies to reshape science and learning in successive periods of upheaval and consolidation.

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Advising has evolved as a critical function because of the increasing complexity of curricula, the competitiveness of the job market, and the changing nature of the student population.

The literature on academic advising has consequently proliferated during the past decade, and this book provides valuable guidance in that area.

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This book offers a critical appraisal of Fulbright achievements and limitations in avoiding political influence, integrating gender and racial diversity, absorbing conflict and dissent, and responding to economic fluctuations and social change. -- .

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In recent decades, as the question of academic freedom within Catholic higher education has received greater attention, models and interpretations of academic freedom have been proposed to help Catholic colleges and universities deal with the issue.

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The freedom of academics to pursue knowledge and truth in their research, writing, and teaching is a fundamental principle of contemporary higher education in the United States.

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Explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. This title discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in debates about the humanities: the relation between "amateurs" and "professionals," the relation between one academic discipline and another, and the relation between "jargon" and "plain language."

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Typically mainstream classroom teachers and principals do not purchase books solely on academic language literacy because they see this as the domain of the ESL teacher. Academic Language Literacy infuses this knowledge through a three pronged approach (content, context, and process) to effective professional development.

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As ironic as it may seem, very few academic leaders have had any formal training in academic administration, or in any kind of administration at all. For the most part, academic administrators learn on the job. They also seek advice wherever they can get it. The purpose of this book is to offer such advice.

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As ironic as it may seem, very few academic leaders have had any formal training in academic administration, or in any kind of administration at all. For the most part, academic administrators learn on the job. They also seek advice wherever they can get it. The purpose of this book is to offer such advice.

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This book focuses on case studies at university level in various countries and analyzes students and teachers perception of academic misconduct and their definition and understanding of plagiarism. The 13 chapters assess the damage done by cheating and plagiarism to academic institutions and recommend strategies and solutions.

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Gumport (education, Stanford U.), in this revision of her dissertation, reconstructs the careers of 35 academics who were involved in the creation of feminist scholarship in their fields. The nature of academic knowledge and the social science theories and research methods used for the study are des

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This collection of papers provides a contemporary and comparative overview of higher education and conditions of academic staff in Europe.