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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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This book addresses the dangers of focusing on single-mode approaches in educating individuals with autism spectrum disorders, especially behavior analytic approaches. Shyman presents a sound theoretical and practical argument for comprehensive approaches applying multiple methodologies useful for teachers, practitioners, students, and professors.

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School boards are fighting for their survival. Almost everything that they do is subject to regulations handed down from city councils, state boards of education, legislatures, and courts. Besieged is the first full-length volume in many years to systematically examine the politics that surround school boards.

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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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This book addresses concrete strategies to help principals, teacher educators and mentors give constructive feedback on lesson plans that can impact teachers content, pedagogy or classroom management.

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This book addresses concrete strategies to help principals, teacher educators and mentors give constructive feedback on lesson plans that can impact teachers content, pedagogy or classroom management.

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This book, with its attention to literature and the visual arts as well as traditional non-fiction sources, provides a distinctive, wide-ranging exploration of utopia and education. Utopia is examined not as a model of social perfection but as an active, ongoing, imaginative educational process the building of better worlds.

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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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This book confronts some of the main controversies in higher education, particularly those affecting first-year students: high-stakes testing in general (particularly the SAT), the intensification of student debt and the financial sentence imposed upon all who incur it, and the dramatic pressures placed upon freshmen as they transition to college.

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Between the Lines invites collaborative engagement and active inquiry among students as well as on-demand writing and integrated YA literature, all designed to support existing middle and secondary level ELA classroom curriculum instruction.

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Between the Lines invites collaborative engagement and active inquiry among students as well as on-demand writing and integrated YA literature, all designed to support existing middle and secondary level ELA classroom curriculum instruction.

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Beyond Buzzwords examines popular but ineffective instructional concepts and explains why many popular educational ideas lack evidence and theoretical support for improving instruction. This book also critically examines instructional goals and the meaning of evidence-based instruction.

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Beyond Buzzwords examines popular but ineffective instructional concepts and explains why many popular educational ideas lack evidence and theoretical support for improving instruction. This book also critically examines instructional goals and the meaning of evidence-based instruction.

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The failure of alternative and continuation schools to educate our most vulnerable adolescent populations is slowly eliminating them from our educational landscapes. Millions of struggling teens, lacking options, are being set adrift without the necessary capabilities and with...

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The failure of alternative and continuation schools to educate our most vulnerable adolescent populations is slowly eliminating them from our educational landscapes. Millions of struggling teens, lacking options, are being set adrift without the necessary capabilities and with...

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This book addresses the need for more scholastically based attention to the discussion and practice of inclusive education for individuals with exceptionality. Drawing on historical, educational, and legislative perspectives, this book provides a treatise on both the philosophy and implementation of inclusive education in American schools.

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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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This book connects a new history and philosophy of science with the history of education.