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A review of resource partnerships for science demonstrates different types of relationships from team to chain relationships.

As Mitchell points out, advocacy is a basis for justifying, publicizing, and expanding particular partnerships.

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They recommend major policy changes, dramatic alterations of school structures and practices, and fundamentally different ways of viewing both disadvantaged youth and effective schooling. The final section examines school practices that affect the performance of disadvantaged and minority students in existing school structures.

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Any conception of staff development emerges from an understanding of teaching, schooling, and education. The way people define and think about staff development will be influenced inevitably by their philosophy of education: their values, beliefs, and their taken-forgranted assumptions about what is and what ought to be.

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This book uses research studies and the experiences of teachers to show how and why people can become effective teachers. The author asserts that it is always possible to learn to become a more effective teacher, and encourages the student teacher to develop their professional practice.

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Offers an exploration of practical teaching strategies and provides ideas that are supported by practical experience, research evidence and theory. This book is intended for those teachers who are on their central professional task of understanding and deploying a range of teaching modes and strategies in order to promote successful learning.

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Essential for all teachers looking to develop their understanding and skilful use of a range of teaching modes and strategies to promote successful learning. >

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Electing the President is a motivating, hands-on simulation that lets students experience the exciting process of electing the President and Vice President of the United States.

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The author suggests a new methodology for tutoring, and a new mandate for the writing center: a strong connection between the rhythms of extended, asynchronous writing and dialogic literacy.

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The author suggests a new methodology for tutoring, and a new mandate for the writing center: a strong connection between the rhythms of extended, asynchronous writing and dialogic literacy.

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A thorough overview of elementary education in the United States, spanning its history, foundations, curriculum models, technology, assessment, and special programs.

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This book examines how a group of ten-year-olds attending public school engaged in a mindfulness project over the course of an academic year. The young peoples informative and inspiring dialogue, as well as their use of creative modes of expressions, reveals their varied understandings and lived experiences with mindfulness practices.

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Eliminating the Achievement Gap is designed to be the first book to base society's efforts to reduce the achievement gap on meta-analytic analysis. It proposes an interdisciplinary approach to this problem that is rare, refreshing, and insightful, including solutions generally overlooked.

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Examines the life and work of four intellectual giants in 20th-century American education: John Dewey, Howard Gardner, Carol Gilligan, and John Ogbu.

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Discusses the role of empathy in learning throughout all levels of education and its crucial relationship to motivation, values development and achievement, impacting from the micro to the macro levels of society. The author considers the intrinsic nature of affect and empathic human relationships in learning.

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This book highlights the urgent need to expand conceptions of leadership in early childhood to emphasize postmodern epistemology, a belief that equity starts by acknowledging and making diversities visible, and to unite leadership in a commitment to work for social justice.

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Pressure on schools to develop has never been greater, and this series brings to the attention of teachers, heads, policy makers and researchers the latest knowledge in the fields of school improvement and school effectiveness. Teachers are provided with practical knowledge whilts the ideas presented will also stimulate debate.