Higher education, tertiary education

Classrooms are systems, schools are systems, and schooling in the United States is a big system.

Covering a timely topic, which is more and more frequently in the news, this book offers vignettes that will sharpen the reader's ability to recognize and respond to difficult situations sparked by identity differences among faculty, staff, and students in college and university settings.

This book is a straightforward, no-nonsense guide to a research method that can be used by educators to increase student learning, student self-esteem, and quality of school life in the classroom.

The ability to lead a campaign is essential to success for today's college or university president.

Technology is viewed as a powerful force both in and out of school and has long been linked with math and science.

A presidential transition has a major impact on the life of an institution.

This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world.

This book is a comprehensive guide for educators and policy makers who are ready to create schools for Latinos (particularly Mexican Americans), such that students will be successful in learning and achieving in K-12 grades and college and help to advance society in the 21st century.

On campuses across the United States and beyond, schools of business, education, law, liberal arts, management, medical professions, pharmacy, and physical or social sciences are beginning to use assessment rubrics for purposes of formative and summative evaluation.

Teachers begin the professional journey with a treasure chest full of experiences, hopes, and expectations gathered from early childhood.

We offer in this book a collection of chapters that reflect a broad range of issues linking globalization to education in an accessible yet theoretically grounded and detailed form.

Louis Sullivan, an American architect, was referred to as the "e;father of modernism"e; and coined the phrase "e;form follows function.

Although administrators have many responsibilities, none is more critical to the school, student, and their personal success than the hiring, supervising, and evaluating teachers.

Making Mentoring Work is a practical guide for school leaders interested in beginning or enhancing their mentoring programs for new teachers.

In an era of declining state support for colleges and universities, the role of private philanthropy in helping to shape the future direction of higher education has become even more crucial and significant than in the past.

The Handbook of Comparative Higher Education Law addresses legal issues from institutions of higher learning in seventeen countries on all six inhabited continents in a reader friendly manner.

Leaders in schools, universities, and other organizations are constantly bombarded with ethical dilemmas.

Education Game Changers is written for an international readership.

Each year over a million newly-minted high school graduates enroll in four-year colleges and universities across the country.

Educators and employers are increasingly concerned that too many young people do not have the skills needed to succeed as they enter the world of work and higher education.

Did you ever notice how many teachers start out their careers so positive only to end them in misery?

College presidents lead taxing and complex, though enormously fulfilling and rewarding, lives.

"e;Finally a book about teaching that tells it like it is,"e; NEA Today said about Michael Gose's first edition, What It Means to Be a Teacher.

School superintendents, business managers, central office leaders, elected officials, industry leaders, educators, and aspiring practitioners in the field of education will find this book a useful resource in understanding innovative ways to stretch limited school resources or to improve the scope and quality of services and programs offered to deserving students.

This book provides foundational thoughts on situations where deans find themselves when managing up, managing their peers and themselves, or managing down.

Sociocultural Issues in Physical Education: Case Studies for Teachers is useful to a wide range of individuals interested in increasing their sociocultural awareness and knowledge in order to consider how students' experiences are shaped in and through physical education classes.

Inclusion: Teachers' Perspectives and Practices delineates timely strategies that address teachers' concerns regarding the inclusive environment.

Modeled after a little known historical model and based on the research of Vanessa Siddle Walker, Living the Legacy of African American Education: A Model for University and School, describes a sustainable and authentic partnership between a university and its K-12 partners.

N3xt Practices is a ground-breaking advisory book for education decision makers.

"e;Now what should I do?

Seeking Balance: The Story of a Principal's Second Semester continues the story of fictional Principal Joe Gentry's first year on the job.

The Road to Tenure offers humorous recollections of the messiness and confusion that fill the days of a pre-tenure academic-from graduate school through the postdoc and into the assistant professor days.

This CHOICE award-winning author has teamed up with a national school resource expert to write a comprehensive book on teacher leaders.

This book is a treasure trove of information, generously sprinkled with gems of wisdom and insights for helping teachers to eradicate doubt and uncertainty about their teaching.

There are many master teachers who have excellent organizational and interpersonal relation skills who think about becoming assistant principals and principals.

The guiding idea of this book concerns the nature of teacher education in the future, viewing the understanding of the history of teacher education in different context as the basis for future development.

Al Ramirez writes on the subject of how the public schools in the United States are financed and how other funds are raised for educational programs in elementary and secondary schools.

The statistics are familiar: almost 50% of new teachers leave the profession within their first five years in the classroom.

For over 30 years we have been in the midst of a paradox.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide for college students and high school seniors considering law school.

Hanging Out and Hanging on: From the Projects to the Campus chronicles the progress of students from Hartford and Manchester, Connecticut, who are enrolled in the Dual College Enrollment Program (DCEP) at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Activities for Teaching Gender and Sexuality in the University Classroom is the first interdisciplinary collection of activities devoted entirely to teaching about gender and sexuality.

Correct instructional level and self-esteem have never been fully addressed in public education.

Successful Teaching: Practical Ideas to Make It Happen is written for all pre- and in-service teachers, whether they are the 20 year veteran who needs a renewed sense of purpose, new to the profession, or planning to become a teacher.

Education in the twenty-first century demands that we examine school practices as never before.

Teachers today are more stressed than ever.

Mastery Teaching Skills is a professional development book that will help teachers and principals implement the Common Core State Standards.

Explore exciting programs and initiatives that can both engage undergraduate students with academic libraries and assist academic librarians in creating a vibrant library atmosphere.

The experience accumulated in the wake of more than two decades of sustained effort to promote growth and change in the low-income countries presents a rich field for scholarly inquiry and new insights into the development process.