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Deficient urban schooling remains one of America's most pressing - and stubborn - public policy problems. This important new book details and evaluates a radical and promising new approach to K-12 education reform. Strife and Progress explains for a broad audience the ""portfolio strategy"" for providing urban education - its rationale, implementation, and results.

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This book was written for everyday practitioners aiming to create staffs capable of making their schools sparkle amidst the chaos. Not only does this book describe four essential foundational practices of the foundational leader, it also provides the reader with the specific processes to move each of them from theory to practice.

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Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts is the first practical teacher resource to provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of developing strong spirits and caring young people. It is focused on middle years' students but most lessons can be adapted for older and younger students as ...

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Stronger Writing Skills for Teens offers middle and high school teachers strategies, techniques, and materials for teaching adolescent writing. It focuses on quality writing instruction and presents the modes of writing as defined by Common Core State Standards, with strategies, tips, and suggestions for teaching each mode.

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Stronger Writing Skills for Teens offers middle and high school teachers strategies, techniques, and materials for teaching adolescent writing. It focuses on quality writing instruction and presents the modes of writing as defined by Common Core State Standards, with strategies, tips, and suggestions for teaching each mode.

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Structural Challenges and the Future of Honors Education is the third volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. The contributors here examine the structural challenges honors education currently faces a...

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Structural Challenges and the Future of Honors Education is the third volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. The contributors here examine the structural challenges honors education currently faces a...

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This practical textbook bridges the gap between theory and practice by providing K12 preservice teachers with the information and methods related content needed to successfully assess, plan, and implement structured literacy instruction and intervention in the classroom.

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Struggling with Substance Use presents evidence on the magnitude of the problem of student substance abuse and provides education professionals with information on the causes as well as the risk and protective factors that must be understood to address the issue. Topics examin...

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Struggling with Substance Use presents evidence on the magnitude of the problem of student substance abuse and provides education professionals with information on the causes as well as the risk and protective factors that must be understood to address the issue. Topics examin...

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This volume explores the social, economic and political histories of four primarily rural and poor school systems in the American Southeast. An underlying conviction of the author is that local histories and cultures importantly affect the types of school improvement interests, efforts and successes possible in American schools;

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This handbook offers a practical guide to all aspects of planning, evaluating, and implementing student activities. After establishing a basic foundation, they describe activities in specific areas: performance activities, student leadership, and class-related clubs and trips.

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This book asks Christian educatorsparticularly those involved in the student affairs professionto become more engaged with the idea that the programs offered, classes taught, disciplinary actions dispensed, policies framed, and the like, are the arenas in which Christianity must take shape.

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This book investigates blogs as digital spaces where students can practice writing and converse with an authentic audience. It focuses on idea development and gives students voice.

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This book investigates blogs as digital spaces where students can practice writing and converse with an authentic audience. It focuses on idea development and gives students voice.

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This book helps the reader put a stop to high-tech and more traditional low-tech forms of cheating and plagiarism. It explains how to recognize the danger signs for cheating and how to identify material that has been copied.

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Turmoil in higher education has mounted in South Africa to a level wherein black institutions have been virtually paralyzed by conflict and occasionally transformed into armed garrisons.

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A guide for school systems to help them understand why protecting student data privacy is a critical responsibility for the entire organization.

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A guide for school systems to help them understand why protecting student data privacy is a critical responsibility for the entire organization.

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Attai removes the fear around what could go wrong when it comes to protecting student data privacy and provides the guidance and support needed to build strong protections in place from the start.

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Student Depression is a guide for educators dealing with an increasing amount of depressed students. This book offers solutions to promote awareness of and sensitivity to the issues surrounding childhood and adolescent depression; includes tips for recognizing depression; desc...