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This book sought to explore whether school funding practices satisfy the equity and adequacy standards delineated by policymakers and judges, and demanded by the broader public. A funding formula myopia, the book argues, has left student engagement largely overlooked. It com...

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This book is about a little boy named Mikey who was having a difficult time waiting. He had several situations in which he had to wait and became more frustrated as time went by . Mikey was eventually rewarded for not getting upset when he was told he needed to be patient and wait.

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The aim of this book is to help you and your students identify the kinds of risks that are worth taking, better anticipate and navigate potential hazards associated with those risks and maximize the potential benefits.

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Tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America's schools. This title exposes raw, real-time arguments over what inequalities of opportunity based on race in our schools look like today - and what, if anything, various Americans should do about it.

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These same conditions have impacted district and school leadership. This pragmatic book offers a road map to identify, design, and strengthen skills for district and school leadership. It is very readable, eminently sensible, and provides sound philosophical advice to support and sustain growth in leadership teams in any school or district.

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These same conditions have impacted district and school leadership. This pragmatic book offers a road map to identify, design, and strengthen skills for district and school leadership. It is very readable, eminently sensible, and provides sound philosophical advice to support and sustain growth in leadership teams in any school or district.

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The book identifies kinds of higher education institutions, and types of teaching positions along with the nature of each position's responsibilities and advantages and disadvantages. It explains how graduate students can promote their future as faculty members while they are ...

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The book identifies kinds of higher education institutions, and types of teaching positions along with the nature of each position's responsibilities and advantages and disadvantages. It explains how graduate students can promote their future as faculty members while they are ...

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An examination of the processes and procedures involved in developing a career in teaching and becoming a secondary headteacher in England. In a study of two local education authorities, the author compares how career structures match up to actual experiences of promotion.

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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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This book provides practical strategies for meeting the challenges of children exhibiting behavior problems.

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

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Behind the Curtain: Tackling the Myths and Mistakes of School Management is a down-to-earth, practical guide for educators to assist them with the pitfalls that can be associated with upper management. This book explores complex issues of power, control and motivation to expos...

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Behind the Curtain: Tackling the Myths and Mistakes of School Management is a down-to-earth, practical guide for educators to assist them with the pitfalls that can be associated with upper management. This book explores complex issues of power, control and motivation to expos...

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