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The book encourages teachers to use the blended classroom to engage with digital learners in highly intentional ways.

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Poses an important question: How can we account for successful policy reform initiatives when the political cards are stacked against change This book shows how the strategic choices of reform proponents alter the destinies of policy reforms by reshaping power equations and undermining institutional biases that impede change.

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Developing Critical Thinking: From Theory to Classroom Practice invites readers to revisit their pedagogy to promote this type of inquiry. Scholars and practitioners from several content areas introduce several examples of instructional strategies, classroom practices, and pro...

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Critical Thinking: From Theory to Classroom Practice invites readers to revisit their pedagogy to promote this type of inquiry. Scholars and practitioners from several content areas introduce several examples of instructional strategies, classroom practices, and projects at mu...

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This title provides a satirical explanation to key words in education, which is both funny and thought provoking. Inspired by Ambrose Bierce's 'The Devil's Dictionary', it is a suitable book for the teacher in your life.

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Discipline Over Punishment is an exploration of the transformative potential of restorative discipline practices in schools, ranging from the micro-level of one-on-one interactions with students to the macro-level of re-routing the school-to-prison pipeline and improving life ...

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Discipline Over Punishment is an exploration of the transformative potential of restorative discipline practices in schools, ranging from the micro-level of one-on-one interactions with students to the macro-level of re-routing the school-to-prison pipeline and improving life ...

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This book challenges the utility of traditional command-and-control models that are no longer capable of supporting school leaders and describes how an effective educational leader in the Information Age applies dispositional thinking in order to be adaptive, self-aware and responsive to others.

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This book challenges the utility of traditional command-and-control models that are no longer capable of supporting school leaders and describes how an effective educational leader in the Information Age applies dispositional thinking in order to be adaptive, self-aware and responsive to others.

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Created for educators, students, and administrators involved in distance education, this bibliography describes some 300 books in the field, with the author's evaluative comments on the usefulness and audience of each title.

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Makes a link between two key policy drivers in education: personalized learning and distributed leadership. This work puts forward the idea that an effective means of implementing personalizing learning is to adopt distributed approaches to school leadership.

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The components of sound district finance and management, that are increasingly important in an era of scarce financial, material, and human resources, are provided in this book, along with some clear and related recommendations.

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The components of sound district finance and management, that are increasingly important in an era of scarce financial, material, and human resources, are provided in this book, along with some clear and related recommendations.

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It is commonly agreed that engaging parents with their child's learning is positive with wide reaching benefits. This book articulates why parental engagement is of value and how it can be achieved with positive results. It offers a resource for teachers about the benefits of parental engagement along with methods foster and develop good practice.

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Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. Tracing the historical development of religion within public schools and considering every major Supreme Court case, this book looks at the role that religion ought to play in public schools.

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Brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to discuss the evidence on the link between school resources and educational and economic outcomes. In a lively exchange of views, contributors debate whether additional spending can improve the performance of US schools.

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This up-to-date, new and improved edition of Dont Gossip in the Teachers Lounge has 200 tips to help the beginning elementary school teacher learn the inter-workings of school relationships.

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This up-to-date, new and improved edition of Dont Gossip in the Teachers Lounge has 200 tips to help the beginning elementary school teacher learn the inter-workings of school relationships.

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Education is one of the largest sectors of the U.S. economy--yet scholars, educators, policymakers, and parents do not agree about what the money spent on education really buys.

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and how these factors may affect the political and economic future of nations, regions, and the international community as a whole.

In his two-year study, Duke surveyed 3,000 students enrolled in 40 outstanding secondary schools that are likely to produce leaders in their respective countries in the twenty-first century.