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This historical reference book dealing with school psychology covers over 450 terms, concepts, important people and organisations, issues, events, and other topics of note. This is a user-friendly encyclopedia for gathering information about the field of school psychology rapidly.

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This exhaustive analysis of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) throughout history discusses the institutions and the major events, individuals, and organizations that have contributed to their existence.

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Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have served a population under severe legal, educational, economic, and political restrictions. Chapter 6 provides an empirical account of race relations among black and white students and faculty on ten black and five white southeastern college campuses.

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Explores the varied contours of the educational accountability movement that has swept the United States. This work describes the historical origins and underlying assumptions of accountability measures; issues surrounding accountability; relationships between the accountability and the standards movements; and more.

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This significant volume studies the growing body of research on home education, and offers a broad analysis of this movement. The volume ends with an anthropological analysis of learning in the informal home setting and a philosophical critique of the movement as an abandonment of a belief in the efficacy of common schooling.

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This book is about wisdom for people that like unique wisdom.

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This book will teach you how to run a business. It tells you a method to be successful in business.

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David and Micki Colfax provide a step-by-step manual for people who want to educate their children at home, written by two former educators who taught all three of their own sons at home--and saw them accepted at Harvard! An invaluable sourcebook for improving a child's education.

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This practical, hands-on guide from the No. 1 homeschooling Web site gives readers everything they need to create a customized education plan that works with children's unique intelligence and learning style. Veteran homeschoolers and interested newcomers alike can benefit. (July)

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The word 'homework' causes despair in both pupils and teachers. Pupils because they have to do it and teachers because they have to prepare it, enforce it, collect it and mark it. This practical guide covers all areas of homework from reasons for setting it, to motivational techniques and how to support pupils of all standards.

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Gives counselors, classroom teachers, and parents an understanding of homework style and an introduction to methods and materials on the topic of homework to aid them in meeting the formidable challenge of helping children do their homework more effectively.

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Hope or Despair asks what promotes and what holds back student learning in Pakistan's government-sponsored primary schools. Using a national sample of schools, students, teachers, and supervisors, it shows how learning is affected by student background, teachers and teaching, school supervision, facilities, and innovation.

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For our country to become everything it is capable of becoming and everything our ancestors dreamed, education cannot continue as usual. Hope, Intolerance, and Greed: A Reality Check for Teachers encourages teachers to question the status quo and to reexamine their power to influence the direction our country takes into the 21st century.

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When looking for exciting, quality literature to use in the middle school classroom, reach for this book.

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Explores the scope for informal learning within children's everyday lives. This book examines the informal acquisition of literacy and numeracy and the role of parents and others in informal learning. It shows how children proactively develop their own learning agendas. It is suitable for education practitioners, researchers and parents.