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Discusses the promises of public education and the places where these are broken. This book ventures in critical auto-ethnography, exploring critique through an ethnographic technique. It aims to fill the gap in education critique where self-examination is missing. It features a cultural study of five different educational environments.

Chronicles the development in latent variable mixture model research. This volume deals with mixtures for data that are hierarchical in nature either due to the data's sampling structure or to the repetition of measures (of varied types) over time.

Chronicles the development in latent variable mixture model research. This volume deals with mixtures for data that are hierarchical in nature either due to the data's sampling structure or to the repetition of measures (of varied types) over time.

Argues that popular media and public debates view African-American families from a deficit perspective. This book states how portrayals of African-American families in newspapers, television, and contemporary scholarship tend to focus on single-parent households, low parental expectations, and lack of family involvement in schooling.

Many innovations are developed in the field of educational technology that hold fascinating promises but enjoy almost no empirical support. There are educational researchers who have done both - developed innovations and tested their potential empirically. This book discusses the most promising innovations from leading educational technologists.

Presents an approach to group problem solving - the Improved Nominal Group Technique (INGT) - that helps minimize or eliminate the common problems, such as personality clashes or wasted time, that are often found in groups. This book demonstrates how this approach enhances employee involvement, increases productivity, and encourages innovation.

Makes a contribution to the field of distance education by presenting key perspectives on the state of the field and examining and discussing specific trends and issues faced by the distance learning community. This book provides insight into a wide array of themes revolving around work on communities of learning in Distance Education.

Studies like the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) have compared the performance of US middle grade students. This book intends to broaden our understanding of middle grade schooling by examining the education of young adolescents (ages 10-15, typically grades 6-8) through an international lens.

Studies like the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) have compared the performance of US middle grade students. This book intends to broaden our understanding of middle grade schooling by examining the education of young adolescents (ages 10-15, typically grades 6-8) through an international lens.

Addresses occupational stress and quality of working life. This book addresses the organizational and individual costs of occupational stress. It also focuses on ways to mitigate the negative effects of occupational stress.

Addresses occupational stress and quality of working life. This book addresses the organizational and individual costs of occupational stress. It also focuses on ways to mitigate the negative effects of occupational stress.

The purpose of this book is to offer higher education leaders, scholars, consultants, and observers a full range of strategy tools that can be applied to the higher education industry. This is accomplished by a) introducing new concepts and tools to give a comprehensive view of strategy making in higher education, beyond strategic planning, b) demonstrating the value of the concepts and tools through description and application for different types of institutions (universities, community colleges, forprofit colleges, etc.) and at different levels within institutions (institutional, college, department, etc.), and c) providing guidance on the appropriate uses of the various tools. The last point is especially important, as applying businesslike principles to higher education often receives heavy criticism. The book helps readers decipher the appropriate uses of different strategy tools to the higher education industry, but the book also points out dangers and weaknesses. All of this is done within today's context of political, economic, demographic, and global realities.

Tells stories of life in a ""failing"" school. This book features insider stories of the daily lives of children and educators in an urban school during a time when accountability weighs heavy on both teachers and students. It shows how most educators are in favor of accountability.

Part of the ""Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East"" series, this book examines the implications of rapid political, sociocultural, and economic change for the enterprise of education within particular countries in the regions of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East - all of which have cultural ties.

Part of the ""Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East"" series, this book examines the implications of rapid political, sociocultural, and economic change for the enterprise of education within particular countries in the regions of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East - all of which have cultural ties.

Policy-makers and opinion leaders often confuse the pedagogical desirability of using a 'framework' for studying history with their own efforts to reaffirm the centrality of national identity rooted in a vision of their nation's history as a way of inculcating citizenship and patriotism. This title discusses these issues.

Focusing on bilingual education policy, this title represents a multidimensional and longitudinal study of 'policy processes' 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). It collects a great variety of forms of 'discourse.'

Covers prescient social, political and ethical issues for the domain of education in general and mathematics education in particular from the perspectives of critical theory, feminist theory and social justice research. This book includes themes such as relevant mathematics, and the political dimensions of mathematics.

Analyzing the research in mathematics education for young children, this work focuses on the relationship between mathematics learning in the early years and domain specific approaches to cognitive development, and the children's learning in a natural context and their understanding of mathematics concepts.

Presents a critical analysis of reviews of research on science and technology education in early childhood education.

Lack of knowledge about immigrant and minority students' learning outside school has contributed to the difficulties educators encounter when trying to embrace cultural diversity. This book examines how literacy is practiced and lived in multiple ways within families of various backgrounds.

Lack of knowledge about immigrant and minority students' learning outside school has contributed to the difficulties educators encounter when trying to embrace cultural diversity. This book examines how literacy is practiced and lived in multiple ways within families of various backgrounds.

Cultural psychology of today is an attempt to advance the program of research that was charted out by Wilhelm Wundt - yet at times we are carefully avoiding direct recognition of such continuity. This book presents a theory of culture in psychology since Wilhelm Wundt's ""Volkerpsychologie"" of the first decades of the twentieth century.

Cultural psychology of today is an attempt to advance the program of research that was charted out by Wilhelm Wundt - yet at times we are carefully avoiding direct recognition of such continuity. This book presents a theory of culture in psychology since Wilhelm Wundt's ""Volkerpsychologie"" of the first decades of the twentieth century.

Compiles the proceedings from the Milken Family Foundation's National Education Conference (NEC), which took place in Washington, DC, in May 2006. This work examines the roles of teachers, the education sector, the government sector and the private sector in enhancing teacher quality.

Focuses on issues related to the nature of young adolescence and the intersection of young adolescence with middle level schooling. This work includes manuscripts that present the perspectives of students on various issues related to young adolescence and schooling.