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Compensatory education for alienated students at risk of dropping out is a recognized part of the educational landscape. He associates this failure with the program's perception of its students, the trivial curriculum, and the lack of student involvement in planning.

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There are basic selected guiding principles that are foundational building blocks that enable school leaders to effectively manage people and schools. The scope of the book focuses on experiences of elementary level school leaders. Many of the lessons learned and experiences presented are applicable to middle and high school grade levels.

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There are basic selected guiding principles that are foundational building blocks that enable school leaders to effectively manage people and schools. The scope of the book focuses on experiences of elementary level school leaders. Many of the lessons learned and experiences presented are applicable to middle and high school grade levels.

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In Steady and Strong: People Skills for Principals, Russ Thompson describes his experiences as the successful principal of three urban high schools. The challenges he faced ranged from gang activity and racial conflicts, to low expectations and ineffective teaching. Thompson t...

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STEM Education for High-Ability Learners: Designing and Implementing Programming focuses on the rigorous articulation of quality STEM education programming to develop STEM talent among high-ability and gifted learners. The intent of this book is to provide a comprehensive resource for educators designing and implementing each of the supports

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Using practical examples, STEM to STREAMS: Towards a More Equitable Vision of STEM Education aims to provide educators and educational researchers with new ways of thinking about how to merge disciplines to create a more equitable and dynamic vision of STEM.

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Using practical examples, STEM to STREAMS: Towards a More Equitable Vision of STEM Education aims to provide educators and educational researchers with new ways of thinking about how to merge disciplines to create a more equitable and dynamic vision of STEM.

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This handbook is designed to answer two basic questions for educational practitioners. The first is how educators may redesign a school system to perform at optimum levels. The second is what they may do to manage and reward the performance that sustains those very improvements.

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This book is designed to provide beginning administrators with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed during their first year, shortening the initial learning curve and helping them make smooth transitions from teaching to their first administrative positions.

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Steps to Success: What Successful Principals Do Every Day is purposefully written for practicing and aspiring public and private school administrators who desire on a daily basis to gain relevant skills, specialized knowledge, and overall expertise associated with being a successful school principal.

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Sticky Situations is a collection of case studies to help early childhood educators walk through management scenarios and brainstorm the best way to solve typical childcare program problems. Each case study addresses a situation that a director may encounter in an early childh...

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Sticky Situations is a collection of case studies to help early childhood educators walk through management scenarios and brainstorm the best way to solve typical childcare program problems. Each case study addresses a situation that a director may encounter in an early childh...

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This book includes an analysis of the most significant Supreme Court cases that have been decided in the ten years since the first edition of the book appeared. The authors consider the important implications of these recent rulings for the future of school desegregation in Americas schools.

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This book includes an analysis of the most significant Supreme Court cases that have been decided in the ten years since the first edition of the book appeared. The authors consider the important implications of these recent rulings for the future of school desegregation in Americas schools.

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Stock School, A Colour Coded Guide To Financial Trading & Investing. Fully colour coded where appropriate. Simple to follow, easy to read, for all levels of experience.

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This is a book about the struggles over reforming reading instruction and the corresponding effort to improve reading achievement in the United States over the last seven decades.

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Veteran educators are being encouraged to take early retirement in order to create jobs for less-experienced, lower-paid novices. Consequently, there is a brain-drain of skilled workers at the national, state, and local levels. The early retirement of our most talented veteran...

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Citing numerous critical interpretations and commentary, this book offers great insight into this genre of popular folk literature.

After an introduction to the form and its place in history, the author explores various types of ballads (e.g., child ballads, border ballads, broadside ballads).

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This book focuses on the boundaries which faculty of color encounter in everyday experiences on campus and presents a more complete picture of life in the academy - one that documents how faculty of color are tested, but also how they can not only overcome, but thrive in their respective educational institutions.

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This book focuses on the boundaries which faculty of color encounter in everyday experiences on campus and presents a more complete picture of life in the academy - one that documents how faculty of color are tested, but also how they can not only overcome, but thrive in their respective educational institutions.

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Promote the love of story, familiarize children with a variety of story forms and stimulate curiosity in diverse subjects while building basic literacy skills.

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This unique learning tool lets students read and listen to a popular folktale, analyze the structure through story mapping, and create a board game based on their analysis.

Ever-popular, board games can be an ideal teaching tool.