Educational strategies and policy

Selected as one of the "e;Best Books on Innovation, 2008"e; by BusinessWeek magazineNamed the "e;Best Human-Capital Book of 2008"e; by Strategy + Business magazineA crash course in the business of learning-from the bestselling author of The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution "e;Provocatively titled, Disrupting Class is just what America's K-12 education system needs--a well thought-through proposal for using technology to better serve students and bring our schools into the 21st Century.

Proven strategies for maximizing employee commitment and performanceAs a manager, you know that employee performance is your most important asset but are you making smart, well-thought-out efforts to leverage it to its fullest?

Resolve any HR issue in a snap!

This addition to the best-selling Big Book of Business Games Series is packed with over 40 original games and exercises managers can use to motivate their teams-and themselves.

Team Building and Leadership Coaching with Virtual WorldsNew collaborative technologies to keep your company competitive, productive, and efficient With the business landscape changing every day, companies need training solutions that are not only cost-efficient, but engaging, quantifiable and global.

Internet and intranet technologies offer tremendous opportunities to bring learning into the mainstream of business.

Do you take credit for your employees' ideas?

Effective team building through training games.

Almost any economist will agree that education plays a key role in determining a country's economic growth and standard of living, but what we know about education policy in developing countries is remarkably incomplete and scattered over decades and across publications.

A trio of headlines in the Chronicle of Higher Education seem to say it all: in 2013, "e;A Bold Move Toward MOOCs Sends Shock Waves;"e; in 2014, "e;Doubts About MOOCs Continue to Rise,"e; and in 2015, "e;The MOOC Hype Fades.

If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing.

This third edition provides a comprehensive update and expansion on the principles and practices of Energy-Centered Maintenance (ECM).

How to handle affirmative action is one of the most intractable policy problems of our era, touching on controversial issues such as race-consciousness and social justice.

Discuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up-in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives.

Working mothers, broken homes, poverty, racial or ethnic background, poorly educated parents-these are the usual reasons given for the academic problems of poor urban children.

If free market advocates had total control over education policy, would the shared public system of education collapse?

In the past two decades in the United States, more than 1,600 Catholic elementary and secondary schools have closed, and more than 4,500 charter schools-public schools that are often privately operated and freed from certain regulations-have opened, many in urban areas.

Positive thinking is about being able to accept the ups and the downs of life, to feel grateful for what we have and to look forward to the future.

As people face addictions, deal with loss and grief, and seek help in restoring broken relationships, where can they turn for counsel and assistance?

Leading Change in the Early Years focuses on the type of leadership skill needed for leading the reform and change agendas that challenge the early years sector.

While Islamophobia was present in our society before 9/11, it has become more pervasive in recent years.

This study of educational policy from Lyndon Johnson through Bill Clinton focuses on three specific issues--public school aid, non-public (especially Catholic) school aid, and school desegregation--that speak to the proper role of the federal government in education as well as to how education issues embody larger questions of opportunity, exclusion, and equality in American society.

In this lucid book an eminent scholar, teacher, and author takes a critical look at the nature and direction of English studies in America.

This student friendly practical guide helps you get to grips with reflective practice in teaching, through bite-sized sections that are informative and quickly digestible.

Previous editions of the bestselling Deconstructing Special Education set a landmark for the understanding of inclusion.

Educators and community-based professionals are often required to work with children and families from a range of diverse backgrounds.

Most coaches know that Personality Type indicators can add enormous value to their work.

Neuroscience is revolutionising coaching: it helps us understand the biological basis of our behaviour.

Updated and Expanded Edition of the Leadership BestsellerHarness the meaning of love, the verb, to improve your corporate culture and bottom line with the help of Joel Manby, former President and CEO of both SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment and Herschend Enterprises.

Teaching and learning in a college setting has never been more challenging.

There is continuing emphasis on delivering services for children through 'joined up' thinking and integrated working.

Many of the problems afflicting American education are the result of a critical shortage of qualified teachers in the classrooms.

This book tells the story of how one primary school community worked to build a learning environment that is inclusive, humane and enabling for everybody, a place free from the damaging effects of fixed ability thinking and practices.

The call-to-arms to “leave no child behind” in America has become popularly associated with the Bush administration’s education plan—a plan that actually diverges greatly from the ideals of the Children’s Defense Fund, which originated the concept.

What are the key skills needed to be a successful coach, mentor or supervisor?

This timely book refocuses the debate about school choice programs with a nonpartisan assessment of the nation’s largest and longest-running private school voucher program—the high profile Milwaukee experiment—and finds that the system undercuts the promise of school choice.

Recognizing the essential heteronomy of postmodern philosophy of religion, Merold Westphal argues against the assumption that human reason is universal, neutral, and devoid of presupposition.

Designed for aspiring school leaders, this fully updated fourth edition presents the realities of school finance policy and issues, as well as the tools for formulating and managing school budgets.

A Wall Street Journal BestsellerExperience explosive growth and success in your career and personal life by taking ownership of your personal development and understanding you don't need to know all the answersbut you do need to ask the right questions.

In order to design and deliver effective learning and development initiatives, it is essential to understand how our brains process and retain information.

Learning and Development Practice in the Workplace is the ideal textbook for anyone studying CIPD L&D qualifications and apprenticeships at Level 3 or Level 5, as well as for practitioners new to an L&D role.

In today's complex, uncertain and ambiguous business environment, it is essential to develop a workforce's capabilities, skills and competencies to ensure continued organizational success.

Many coaching tools and techniques are now fairly well established, but how do they actually work?

Organizational change can be unpredictable and stressful.

Effectively and fairly rewarding employees is a critical component to help build organizational, team and individual performance and success.

This book develops the notion of 'knowledge cultures' as a basis for understanding the possibilities of education and development in the age of knowledge capitalism.

Fostering positive relationships between employers and employees is crucial to ensure employee commitment and engagement, as well as overall business performance.

An engaged workforce is critical to the high performance and success of any organization.