Improving Student Achievement: Reforms that Work expands on the first volume in the Milken Family Foundation series on education policy, Talented Teachers: The Essential Force for Improving Student Achievement.
This volume covers such topics as Developing Theories of Fairness Motivation; Development of Justice Integration Theory; and The Roles of Empathy, Self-esteem, and Moral Development in Interactional Fairness.
This book is divided into four parts: overview and scope of the problem; current challenges to funding of school infrastructure; the future of school infrastructure funding; and conclusion.
This book is intended to give readers detailed information and perspectives on the reform of financial management reform practices in a variety of national settings around the world.
For readers new to the field of multicultural education and human relations education, the recency of these publications heralded as seminal may be confusing, for certainly the concepts building the field of multicultural education and human relations education have been around much longer.
The Handbook of Research of Catholic Higher Education provides an important and timely overview for scholars and students interested in understanding this important sector of private higher education.
Through the chapters in this volume we learn about the research foci and/ or questions that these classroom teachers are interested in examining, the mathematics content through which they engaged their students in these explorations, the data sources they used to make sense of their focus and questions, and their roles in the research.
This eighth volume in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series includes eight essays selected from manuscripts submitted by participants in the seventh annual conference of the International Association of Research in Service-Learning and Community Engagement, held in Tampa, Florida, in October, 2007.
This publication features Hiatt-Michael's research and practice during thirty-four years as Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Pepperdine University.
This book makes the case that the changes brought about by the connectivity of the Internet have so transformed the nature of post secondary learning that we need to view it differently.
The failure of American education to achieve racial diversity has resulted from the inability of educational researchers, policy makers and judicial officials to disentangle the complex definitions that have emerged in a post-segregated society.
Strong system-wide support is increasingly being identified as laying an important role in policy efforts aimed at increasing student achievement (Hightower, Knapp, March, and McLaughlin: 2002).
This group of essays is written to provide a series of suggestions to Native people who seek to deal with alcoholism from the perspective of their unique heritages and with an understanding that the pressures to which Native traditions and societies have been subjected may trigger dysfunctional behavior, such as excessive drinking.
The Advances in Service-Learning Research book series was established to initiate the publication of a set of comprehensive research volumes that would present and discuss a wide range of issues in this broad field called service-learning.
Through the chapters in this volume we learn about the questions that capture the attention of teachers, the methodologies they use to gather data, and the ways in which they make sense of what they find.
This volume of Advances in Teacher Education is about beliefs held by teachers and addresses the important topic of teacher beliefs from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
The Forum that led to this volume was the thirteenth in an on-going annual series sponsored by the Applied Psychology Center (APC) at Kent State University.
Includes discussion on the rationale of teaching about genocide; the history of genocide; and 10 cases studies of genocide perpetrated in the 20th century.
This publication is a very significant cooperative effort of the Department of Audiovisual Instruction and the National Society for Programmed Instruction.
In this volume, David Geary provides a comprehensive theory that brings children's education into the 21st century, and provides directions for the development of a new discipline, "e;evolutionary educational psychology.
One may view the idea of the nation as a fundamental "e;assumption"e; which defines the manner in which modern man perceives, and experiences, social reality.
The hybridity and dynamism of today's interconnected, interdependent and culturally diverse world poses challenges and opportunities for learning and communication.
This book on bilingual education policy represents a multidimensional and longitudinal study of "e;policy processes"e; as they play out on the ground (a single school in Los Angeles), and over time (both within the same school, and also within the state of Georgia).
This volume on "e;Education towards a Culture of Peace"e; is a timely undertaking, since the United Nations has proclaimed the years 2001-2010 as the "e;International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World.
This book sets out to explore the intersections between matters not frequently yoked in academic discussions: spirituality, social justice, and the learning of world languages.
