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The best-selling author of Flow and an award-winning sociologist draw on a unique longitudinal study to reveal how adolescents develop attitudes, skills, and expectations about their adult careers.

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The evolution of MIT, as seen in a series of crucial decisions over the years.

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Most children learn to read, irrespective of the method of instruction-even despite it. Yet up to a fifth of children struggle with reading in their first few years at school, and this rate can be higher in some schools. Unfortunately poor readers rarely

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Beginning to Read reconciles the debate that has divided theorists for decades over what is the "right" way to help children learn to read.

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Guides teachers through the exigency and pathology of serious teen aggression.

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Highlights the current chasm between teacher education theories (praxeologies) and the actual experience of teaching (praxis).

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This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the field of gifted education available. This book is organized for educators with questions regarding curricular and instructional implementation, administrators facing program planning, parents with an interest in their child's educational opportunities, and advanced undergraduat

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This work elucidates bell hooks' social and educational theory, with emphasis on the 1994 book, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom.

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Focusing on bell hooks' social and educational theory, the author of this book deals with the issues of marginality and cultural alienation that are prevalent among certain groups within American society, and presents strategies to help develop critical consciousness.

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This volume has grown from the collective effort of individuals from 28 American Library Association (ALA) accredited program schools to document the history and growth of distance education for the library and information science (LIS) professions.

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Examining the educational instruction of the deaf individual from its Benedictine beginnings to its present condition at Gallaudet University, this book traces the historical pedagogical affinity among Pedro Ponce de Lon, Juan Pablo Bonet, Charles Michael de l'Epe, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Edward Miner Gallaudet.

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Best Practices in Gifted Education provides concise, up-to-date, research-based advice to educators, administrators, and parents of gifted and talented youth. The 29 practices included in this volume are the result of an extensive examination of educational research on what works with talented youth. This book is a service publication of the

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This volume provides strategies and curricular materials/resources for working with gifted learners in specific content areas (i.e., mathematics, science, social studies, literacy, languages, and the arts). The authors also discuss the importance of training teachers to use high-quality curriculum and instructional strategies that are appropria

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A volume of radical studies in the sociology and politics of education, specifically addressing educational policies and the crisis of the welfare state, and aiming to open up new areas in the critical social analysis of education.

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A volume of radical studies in the sociology and politics of education, specifically addressing educational policies and the crisis of the welfare state, and aiming to open up new areas in the critical social analysis of education.

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This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political hi

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Beyond Gifted Education takes the concerned gifted program coordinator or school administrator through the process of identifying needs, responding with programming, and then finding students who are well-suited for and would benefit from advanced academic programming.

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The authors' goal is to explore how an alternative, politically viable public discourse on education can be constructed.

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The authors' goal is to explore how an alternative, politically viable public discourse on education can be constructed.

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Writing assessment programs help place entering and mid-career students in composition courses at the appropriate level, monitor the progress of those students, and assist in placing them in writing courses throughout their undergraduate careers.

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Writing assessment programs help place entering and mid-career students in composition courses at the appropriate level, monitor the progress of those students, and assist in placing them in writing courses throughout their undergraduate careers.

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What does the secondary school library media specialist need to know about technology in the twenty-first century Doggett explores the pros and cons of using technology in the schools and describes how it affects the roles and interaction of media specialists, teachers, students, administrators, school system, community, and parents.

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Many contemporary secondary education standards call for teachers to reach across traditional disciplinary lines and create curricula and instructional techniques that are interdisciplinary in nature (as examples, for mathematics see Principles and Standards for School Mathematics;