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We're In This Together
Public-Private Partnerships in Special and At-Risk-Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
We’re In This Together: Public-Private Partnerships in Special and At-Risk-Education is a timely book that explores the use by public schools of private education companies to meet the needs of some of the nation’s most challenged and challenging students. The book examines variations of use by...
When Research Matters
How Scholarship Influences Education Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
When Research Matters considers the complex and crucially important relationship between education research and policy.
In examining how and under what conditions research affects education policy, the book focuses on a number of critical issues: the history of the federal role in education...
by Jay W. Rojewski
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Development of this text has been based on the notion that workforce education and development (WFED) systems—such as, secondary and postsecondary vocational and technical education (VTE), career education and guidance, human resource and organizational development (HROD), and adult training and...
Conducting Hermeneutic Research
From Philosophy to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Conducting Hermeneutic Research: From Philosophy to Practice is the only textbook that teaches the reader ways to conduct research from a philosophical hermeneutic perspective. It is an invaluable resource for graduate students about to embark in hermeneutic research and for academics or other researchers...
Mentoring
The key to a fairer world
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
When Jack Manning Bancroft founded AIME in 2005, building a bridge of mentoring between university students and Indigenous Australian high school kids, few people would have predicted that the initial cohort of 25 kids would grow to more than 15,000 students having completed the program by 2017, mentored...
Educating Marginalized Communities in East and Southeast Asia
State, civil society and NGO partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Despite the enshrinement by the United Nations in 1948 of education as a universal human right, and despite the ideals espoused in the Education for All declaration in Dakar in 1990, it is patently clear that these ideals remain far from realized for a substantial portion of humankind. Especially...
Buddhist-Based Universities in the United States
Searching for a New Model in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Buddhist-Based Universities in the United States: Searching for a New Model in Higher Education investigates four Buddhist universities in the United States, each of which offers degrees in liberal arts and professional fields while simultaneously educating their students in the philosophy and practices...
Inventions of Teaching
A Genealogy
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2004
Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy is a powerful examination of current metaphors for and synonyms of teaching. It offers an account of the varied and conflicting influences and conceptual commitments that have contributed to contemporary vocabularies--and that are in some ways maintained by those...
by David B. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
We all care about improving public education, but how do we find out what’s really happening in classrooms and schools? Veteran teacher David B. Cohen spent a year spent visiting public schools throughout California, discovering how students flourish when teachers capture the sparks of curiosity...
A Life Saver for New Teachers
Mentoring Case Studies to Navigate the Initial Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Navigating the initial years of teaching can be daunting yet exhilarating. While all new teachers want to do their best to help their students succeed, they also need to learn how to navigate the often bumpy road of education. This book contains interesting scenarios and case studies that ask the...
Exemplary Leadership Practices
Learning from the Past to Enhance Future School Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This book shares stories of historical figures from the past as well as contemporary school superintendents and principals. The present nature and complexity of leadership is heavily dependent on the past, as we cannot fully understand or appreciate the current context without going back and exploring...
Global Activism in an American School
From Empathy to Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
When twelve-year-old Iqbal Masih, former child laborer in a Pakistani carpet factory came to Boston in 1994 to receive Reebok’s Youth in Action Award, he asked to meet youth his own age. Reebok selected Broad Meadows Middle School in Quincy, Massachusetts because of its Human Rights curriculum and...
by Tamar Horowitz, Shmuel Shamai, Zinaida Ilatov
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
This book traces the journey of the Mofet Association, an educational coalition established by teachers who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union. Initially focused on children from the former Soviet Union, the Mofet Association went on to become an extensive network of schools serving...
Empowering Excellence
Creating Positive, Invigorating Classrooms in a Common Core Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Empowering Excellence inspires a revolution in teaching and assessment practices. These methods of teaching and grading represent a major step ahead in how teachers assess and interact with students. Empowering Excellence presents 12 significant “shifts” that encourage motivation, build confidence,...