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This book follows the documentary record of faculty unionization at these New England universities to explore how and why unionization came about.

As the book reveals, faculty unionization can be much more than the simple result of local controversies.

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In this study of nonformal education in Latin America, the author argues that rather than providing new training for the labour force and improving the lot of the poor, the education policies in Latin America play an integral role in the governments's attempts to legitimize the capitalist state.

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Over the past fifteen years, a college education has become increasingly valuable in the labor market. As a result, the stakes have been raised in the debate over college admissions and student financial aid.

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This book is designed to give school districts and/or principals the tools to implement a successful coaching model to support principals. It offers hands on, practical practices to overcome the challenge of principal isolation to help principals succeed in the position and in turn get the most out of their students and teachers, and themselves.

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This book is designed to give school districts and/or principals the tools to implement a successful coaching model to support principals. It offers hands on, practical practices to overcome the challenge of principal isolation to help principals succeed in the position and in turn get the most out of their students and teachers, and themselves.

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The Principal's Companion is a book consisting of five sets of activities designed to simulate tasks similar to those typically encountered in the principalship.

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The Principal's Office is a practical book. It is simple, easy-to-read, and packed with straightforward, personal advice gleaned from years of real experience. The current or future principal will receive words of wisdom from an author who knows what it is like to serve in the...

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This book moves beyond dry case studies to provide readers with a window into the ways principals seek to navigate challenging, unpredictable, and authentic school leadership dilemmas.

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This book moves beyond dry case studies to provide readers with a window into the ways principals seek to navigate challenging, unpredictable, and authentic school leadership dilemmas.

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The Principalship: A Learning-Centered Approach is a one-of-a kind textbook written especially for principals to help them understand current theories of teaching and learning and best leadership practices as well as practical application of these theories.

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This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of teacher reflection that matter and avoids talking about teacher reflection generically, which implies that all kinds of reflection are of equal value.

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The Question is the Answer is a teachers guide to helping young readers generate text-based questions. The purpose of this book is to help teachers and parents value and promote student-generated questions to facilitate motivation, engagement, and cognitive development.

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The Question is the Answer is a teachers guide to helping young readers generate text-based questions. The purpose of this book is to help teachers and parents value and promote student-generated questions to facilitate motivation, engagement, and cognitive development.

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Providing a clear, logical guide to an illogical topic, this book provides an easy-to-understand guide for anyone who wants to successfully navigate the labyrinth of going to college-and paying for the experience.

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American higher education was transformed between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. This work identifies the forces and explains the events that reformed the college curriculum during this era. It also examines how the study of science became detached from theological considerations.

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This book provides specific and candid suggestions and ideas for becoming a standout leader. It recommends actions and strategies to positively influence others behavior. It also suggests tactics and actions to avoid. Because, in reality, if principals are successful: student...

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This book provides practical, hands-on advice for school district superintendents. It is designed to provide needed but rarely taught ideas, insights, and information that superintendents can use to incorporate effective practices into their own school districts.

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The School Administrator's Guide to Blogging is a delightful, easy-to-read, jargon-free manual on how educational leaders can connect with their public and use blogging as another tool in their communication toolkit. Sprinkled with personal examples and insights, this book is an enjoyable read. Even technophobes will find it easy to understand!

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The authors set out to see if the American school has always been safe. This unique book is the first to place school safety at the heart of the educational endeavor in America, the first to treat the subject of threats to the school in a broader, historical context, and the first to treat the subject as part of intellectual history.

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The goal of the authors of The School Choice Hoax is to expose the misleading hyperbole that has been driving the school choice movement and to show how charter schools can become more effective and useful to public school districts.