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This text follows the fortunes of the teachers of Hillview Primary School over ten years. It explores what it is like to be a primary or elementary school teacher in an urban school with around 200 children, mixed in social class and ethnicity and suggest what we can learn from them in the future.

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"Excellent support for trainee and practising early years practitioners, combining evidence-based principles with practical advice and examples to help you get to grips with the realities of working in an early years setting"--

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Considers the place of private schools in the larger story of American education.

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This is a collection of essays about Holocaust education by a diverse group of educators involved primarily at secondary level schooling. They relate the genesis of their interest in the Holocaust and the evolution of their educative efforts.

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Explores the dilemmas many parents face when choosing a school for their children, and the impact of the growing gap between public and private schools on families, schools and the community.

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Focusing on private schools, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of schools as social settings, illustrating their potential to create alternative cultures.

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Argues that there has to be a bigger educational and social justice agenda to school improvement than the managerial approaches typically taken by government policy. The author critiques those school improvement texts, courses, and consultancies, which mostly frame their analyses within the terms of policy, and therefore act to apologise for it.

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By combining history with sociology, Rothstein presents a new way of looking at state-supported schools. He describes the pauper schools of the early 1800s and shows how they became the foundation for the common schools that followed.

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This book helps educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle.

Students learn chess rules and strategies through activities coded to the 32 pawns and pieces on a chessboard.

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Examines the nature of scientific inquiry in the primary school classroom to show how this interacts with early literacy. Through an examination of the texts used and produced by pupils studying science, the author shows how what is at work in this context of scientific discourse is actually multiliteracy.

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Scientific Discourse examines the nature of scientific inquiry in the primary school classroom to show how this interacts with early literacy.

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Scout loves camping and he's going to show you how to be safe while having tons of fun in the great outdoors.

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Using their tried-and-tested English Method training, the authors unpack the core learning issues, such as differentiation and the development of thinking skills, suitable for initial teacher training programmes. They link theory and practice, with direct links to key theorists and ideas about learning.

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Using their tried-and-tested English Method training, the authors unpack the core learning issues, such as differentiation and the development of thinking skills, suitable for initial teacher training programmes. They link theory and practice, with direct links to key theorists and ideas about learning.

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James C. Albisetti explores the wide-ranging debate in Imperial Germany over the reform of secondary education to meet the new demands posed by unification, industrialization, and urbanization. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print book

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A broad survey of secondary schools, their historical origins, and present-day goals, intentions, and practices in educating adolescents.

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Suggests sources for developing readers theatre scripts.

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Use this activity-centered, literature-based approach to get students excited about social studies. These 32 units have summaries of books, social studies topic areas, lists of content-related words, curricular perspectives, and critical-thinking questions, as well as myriad activities.