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Addressed to a wide readership including federal and state legislators, state commissioners of social services and education, policy planners, education and advocacy organizations, and public school administrators, this book focuses on the major contemporary child care issues in a readable, understandable format.

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Addressed to a wide readership including federal and state legislators, state commissioners of social services and education, policy planners, education and advocacy organizations, and public school administrators, this book focuses on the major contemporary child care issues in a readable, understandable format.

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Explores key issues in early childhood studies from a social science perspective, exploring how social science can offer explanations to many aspects of human behaviour.

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Explores key issues in early childhood studies from a social science perspective, exploring how social science can offer explanations to many aspects of human behaviour.

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This book with illustrations is for preschool age kids learning the alphabet

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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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A practical guide that helps Early Years practitioners to engage fathers in their child's wellbeing. It provides practitioners with: strategies for recruiting, engaging and retaining fathers; evaluation techniques to develop work with fathers over time; evidence on father involvement; and, policy frameworks and their impact on practice.

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Discusses the importance of promoting equality in schools. This book covers such topics as social class; 'race'; gender; sexual orientation; and, disability and special educational needs with reference to various subjects taught at primary school level.

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Covers topics such as social class, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability and special educational needs with reference to various subjects taught at secondary school level.

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Reach beyond the traditional show-and-tell approach for teaching oral language, creative imagination, visualization, sequential memory, and listening skills by incorporating storytelling into your curriculum.

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These terrific teaching tools turn stories into fun, exciting reading and writing activities that can be used throughout the day. Both books are divided into helpful categories: elements of fiction, Caldecott books, folk tales, fantasy, genre fiction, and nonfiction.

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Do faith schools have a place in a plural society Which types of school contribute most effectively to a plural society This monograph answers these questions by exploring the fit between personal, spiritual and academic goals in contemporary educational experience and individual school cultures. It stimulates debate among educationists.

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Do faith schools have a place in a plural society Which types of school contribute most effectively to a plural society This title intends to answer these questions and more by exploring the fit between personal, spiritual and academic goals in contemporary educational experience and individual school cultures.

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Supporting the social-emotional concerns of young children who are transitioning from Kindergarten to first grade.

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Keep students happily focused on learning during two of the most exciting holidays of the year for the elementary classroom-Halloween and Valentine's Day. Reproducible language arts strategies teach word play, interviewing, letter writing, research skills, problem solving, and metaphorical language while encouraging divergent thinking.

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Introduce children to literature with stories and activities about things that go! Approximately 125 picture books are annotated, and a skills index allows the activity leader to use stories that will reinforce such skills as rhythm, following directions, and word recognition. Grades PreK-3.

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This study is concerned with equal opportunities for girls. The book analyzes educational provision in the decades following the Sex Discrimination Act and asks whether the school curriculum is male-oriented.

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