Aims category: 994 books
by C.J. Lanet
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
GUIDE TO PARENTS
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"Bullies Never Grow Up" is presented as a primary guide to determine if your child is a victim of bullying. Most children deny being bullied, and would only talk about bullying if the subject is discussed in an abstract manner. Read to your child - “Bullies...
Whatever It Takes
Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
What would it take?
That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question...
The Teacher (Illustrated)
Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This book is intended to detail, in a familiar and practical manner, a system of arrangements for the organization and management of a school, based on the employment, so far as is practicable, of Moral Influences, as a means of effecting the objects in view. Its design is, not to bring forward new...
L'arte di insegnare
Consigli pratici per gli insegnanti di oggi (Nuova edizione)
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 5, 2013
NUOVA EDIZIONE Un manuale ricco di suggerimenti, strategie e consigli pratici, che spiega con esempi reali e puntuali tutto ciò che un insegnante oggi deve sapere: • Come affrontare la classe: gli alunni vi vedono come vi vedete voi? • Come interpretare il linguaggio del corpo nel rapporto insegnante-alunno?...
No Child Left Behind
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
While few would quarrel with the goal of the No Child Left Behind legislation, the nation is badly divided over whether the law is having a positive effect on our schools. At the same time, it is also true that most Americans, including many professional educators, have only a limited understanding...
Passed On
Public School Children in Failing American Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Passed On presents an honest, often gritty story of the classroom experience in failing schools in Philadelphia, PA, a city with violent crime and a high poverty rate. Through stories of her own students, Louise Marr reveals how the current corporate reform movement misunderstands what teachers and students...
Reclaiming the Teaching Profession
Transforming the Dialogue on Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Reclaiming the Teaching Profession gives educators (especially teachers and future teachers) and their allies a clear overview of the massive effort to dismantle public education in the United States, which includes a direct attack on teachers. The book details, and provides a systematic critique...
by Lora Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Migrant Teachers investigates an overlooked trend in U.S. public schools today: the growing reliance on teachers trained overseas, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. A narrowly technocratic view of teachers as subject specialists has led districts...
Academia Inc.
How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada’s...
Globalizing Education for Work
Comparative Perspectives on Gender and the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
This book explores how changes in the new world economy are affecting the education of male and female workers. Authors from Australia, Africa, Brazil, Europe, North America, and South Korea use methodologies--such as literature reviews, case studies, legislative analysis, evaluations of model delivery...
The Great University Gamble
Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
In 2010 the UK government imposed huge cuts and market-driven reforms on higher education. Proposals to raise undergraduate tuition fees lead to angry student-led protests. What will become of higher education under this new policy regime? *BR**BR*The Great University Gamble outlines the architecture...
Schools That Learn (Updated and Revised)
A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
"A rich, much-needed remedy for the standardized institutions that comprise too much of our school system today… ideal for teachers and parents intent on resurrecting and fostering students' inherent drive to learn…An essential resource."
-Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVE and A WHOLE...
by Jay Sing
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
" The joy of active income earning phase of life is in its designed retirement. "; .... Author. This book is about growth of wealth over time for an ordinary person who has worked his or her way up to a steady income to make a reasonable living and envisages retiring comfortably. This book...
Designing Better Schools for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children
A Science of Performance Model for Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
How can schools be better designed to enable equitable academic outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse children from communities lacking in economic, political and social power? Putting forward a robust ‘science of performance’ model of school change based on a specified process of...