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This book provides an invaluable resource for school teachers, administrators, board members, policy makers, and citizens who would like to understand what's behind performance pay, what might work and what will not, and how to build a school improvement effort that includes teacher compensation as one of its strategies.

The book is structured to address the issues of vision, structure, and cultural transformation that are of specific interest to academic administrators and the promising practices and issues of identity and support that are concerns of faculty and graduate students.

Breaking Down the Barriers is the story of supervision and intervention in the public schools system. It allows the practitioner to peruse the research that the practical applications are based upon, and follow the suggestions that are offered for the successful implementation of evidenced-based practice.

This is the first book-length analysis of Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. Using the hot-button issues of privacy rights, race, and free speech, The Tie Goes to Freedom challenges the conventional wisdom that Kennedy's jurisprudence is inconsistent and incoherent. The book also demonstrates how he forcefully articulates a libertarian constitutional vision.

Argues that education in the States and Britain has been radically transformed, through efforts to create curricular standards, and through an emphasis on accountability measured by standardized tests, and efforts to introduce market competition and private services into educational systems.

As the first musical theater book especially for middle school productions, The Magic of Middle School Musical provides a step-by-step guide for success. Bobetsky approaches planning and producing musicals in the context of a curricular unit of study and includes strategies for assessing student learning.

This book proposes a model for the actualization of the leadership capital that exists within each of us. This model is based on interviews with leaders and case studies that provided insights on how excellent leaders developed their own leadership.

Provides the perspective of a practitioner as to how and why the unintended consequences of well- intentioned people have hindered, rather than helped, to reform and improve our schools. This book presents a roadmap and recommendations for steps that need to be taken to reform school reform.

The Hows and Whys of Alternative Education offers the essential information on the history of alternative education, school choice, alternative schools, charter schools, magnet schools, homeschooling, private schools, vouchers, distance learning, teacher/student/parent attraction, and the future of educational choice.

Of all the places and events in this nation's history, Gettysburg may well be the name best known to Americans. This book offers an overview of the entire battle, its drama, and its meaning. It ranges from Lee's decision to take his successful Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania to the withdrawal of the battle-battered Confederate army.

Addresses common pitfalls and the knowledge necessary to succeed in the administrative position of the assistant principal. This guide includes the topics of the specific role of the assistant principal, legal issues in the school system, dealing with parents and guardians, methods to document all interactions, and school discipline.

Covering important social work issues aimed at students, this work includes paired articles which talk to each other. Each pair of readings features an introduction with a list of Points to Ponder which introduces students to the issues they'll encounter as they read, and ends with a conclusion entitled The Continuing Debate.

Offering a systematic discussion of key themes such as right, justice, law, equality, and autonomy, this work presages our contemporary world of economic globalization and international law. It is also a translation of a work in political philosophy.

Technology as a Catalyst for School Communities presents case studies that illustrate how administrators and teachers can work together to find solutions to the best ways to integrate technology in the classroom.

Provides research in a reader-friendly way to help teachers and administrators better understand the at-risk student. This book also includes numerous brain-compatible instructional strategies and classroom management techniques, all intended to teach, support, and guide at-risk teenage students.

This book is intended to be a discussion point for how to develop a healthy relationship between personal experience and academic learning-which in light of our current results driven, testing culture, is the real benefit of the book.

Creative Ways to Teach the Mysteries of History, Volume 2 will make the teaching and learning of history a powerful and enjoyable experience in the classroom. All too often students say that history is the most boring subject they have at school. This volume will change the image of history for students and offer teachers an opportunity to go beyond the regular textbook.

Prominent political analyst and historian, Allan J. Lichtman, presents thirteen historical factors, or 'keys,' that have successfully predicted the outcome of presidential elections from 1860 to 2004.