Education

A historical overview of research on education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

The goal of this book is to examine the relationship between religion and academic success, both historically and in modern society.

Students arrive in our classrooms with complex sociocultural histories that include family, cultural, physical, social, emotional, and prior learning experiences.

Reading Across International Boundaries, edited by Roger Openshaw and Janet Soler, clearly demonstrates these broader characteristics of debates about the teaching of reading.

The year 2020 presented conflicts in higher education, including a global pandemic, racial protests, cries for Black Lives Matter following the deaths of Black women and men by police, education moved online to virtual classrooms, and the U.

This text looks at how the study of play has gained attention and concerns about play in young children have emerged.

Comprises three sections: emerging models for connecting community services reform; the impact of school- and community-based interventions and children's learning and development; and state and federal policies for building partnerships to improve outcomes for children and families.

The field of second language learning research has grown rapidly in recent years.

This volume identifies and critically analyzes research studies related to the critical skills, environments, and adult interactions that contribute to young children's literacy development.

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is the journal of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC).

The current volume, Advances in Latent Variable Mixture Models, contains chapters by all of the speakers who participated in the 2006 CILVR conference, providing not just a snapshot of the event, but more importantly chronicling the state of the art in latent variable mixture model research.

Mentoring has become an important aspect of professional development in a wide variety of fields such as education engineering and business.

The Other Three R's model began as an American Psychological Association (APA) initiative, sponsored by Robert J.

The purpose of this text is to further flesh out some of the factors--specific dimensions of our n-dimensional hyperspace--important to inquiry in the classroom.

This book is a search for the promises of public education and the places where these are broken by critics feeding at the academic and professional trough.

This book includes contributions from a variety of different perspectives on employee turnover.

This volume is not primarily concerned with what students should learn, nor even how they should learn.

The six writers in this book explore the contribution and the transferability of narrative inquiry from curriculum studies to daily life in education and in healthcare.

This volume fills a significant gap in the scholarship on social studies education by providing thoughtful reflections on research methods in the field.

This book is titled Forgotten Heroes of American Education because it contains representative writings by significant educators who challenged mainstream thinking.

(published in co-operation with The Center on Innovation & Improvement)As subsequent chapters point out, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires states to provide assistance to districts in improving the schools within their purview.

An Administrator's Guide to Online Education is an essential resource for the higher education administrator.

Making It Work is destined to be the definitive guide for years to come on how to make the regular school education a successful experience for blindvisually impaired children.

Together, the words technology and assess-ment have different meaning for different people.

In this volume we describe exemplary programs in teacher education that attempt to address some of the issues alluded to above.

The Enterprise of Education is Book IV of the research series, Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

The need for strengthening the connections between university-based teacher education programs and schools has never been greater in an era where standards and accountability systems often play centric roles in practically all aspects of the education field.

Qualitative Research Methods in Education and Educational Technology was written for students and scholars interested in exploring the many qualitative methods developed over the last 50 years in the social sciences.

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This book provides readers with the opportunity to hear what experts in the educational community think about the myriad issues involved in improving the quality of all teachers in our nation's classrooms.

This handbook covers such research issues in middle level education as advisory programmes, teaming, effective teachers, staffing, and teacher preparation programmes.

Many books on multicultural education focus on a country and provide indepth discussion of issues pertinent to that country at the time.

This compendium of papers documents educational ICT policies and practices in 37 countries, making it a valuable resource for understanding and comparing ICT-related national policy developments in education.

This volume will highlight papers presented at the second Nebraska Symposium on Information Technology in Education.

This book series on Theory and Research in Educational Administration is about understanding schools.

This volume gathers some of the methods being developed by evaluators from university settings and the private sector.

Advancing Educational Productivity provides a wealth of critical analysis on educational matters at the local, state, national, and international levels.

Schools are increasingly being called upon to aid in the development of resilience in young people in order to be proactive and prevent the consequences of poor social-emotional health and well-being.

This book is the fifth in a series on research and theory dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis.

This handbook is for practitioners who lead public and private elementary schools, middle schools or high schools.

This book addresses the expectations toward the science standards of various stakeholders including students, parents, teachers, administrators, higher education science and science education faculty members, politicians, governmental and professional agencies, and the business community.

There are many teaching and curriculum programs that attempt to make education relevant to the wider sociocultural environment of learners.

This book is not a comprehensive history of moral education in American schools.

This volume of Adolescence and Education is devoted to an exploration of the challenges facing adolescents and their teachers as well as some of the strategies that have been adopted to address these challenges.

This work looks at race, ethnicity and education in the United States.

Early childhood education has always been an enterprising one.

This book draws on ideas about the nature of teaching and teacher knowledge, teacher development and school reform, and narrative as methodology for understanding the lives and work of teachers.

Scope of the Book: Personal~Passionate~Participatory Inquiry into Social Justice in Education, the first book in the series, features 14 programs of social justice oriented research on life in schools, families, and communities.

This book documents progress to date in what works in distance learning (DL).

In this book Professor Davis illustrates the often unexpected reach of historical research intended originally to fill a knowledge gap.