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Committed to participative research, Concha Delgado-Gaitan collaborated with the community to connect family, school, and community, giving birth to the ComitZ de Padres Latinos. This work shows how communities that pull together and offer caring ears, eyes, and hands, can ensure that their children thrive - academically, socially, and personally.

Born to Run tells the stories of nine young politicians from all walks of life who enter into races at the state and local levels in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Georgia, Nebraska, and Maine.

Conceived in Liberty probes the fundamentals of the great dispute among John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and their followers over the sort of country the United States should be. In clear and concise prose, Lance Banning clarifies the foundations of the first great party struggle-and thus of nineteenth-century America.

There is more to teaching than purely translating academic concepts to children. Teaching is a vocation. The book creates a framework by which training institutions can use so that our children are getting the best teachers.

This book reveals exactly how American teachers are taught, describes the wide disparities in the preparation of teachers across states, depicts how market-driven teacher preparation waters down the quality of teachers, and explains how teacher preparation in America compares with preparation for other careers in the United States and with teacher preparation programs in other countries.

This book presents a guide for principals in the form of rules that suggest that educational leaders must ask themselves why they do what they do. It also takes readers through a series of vignettes focused on how principals can practice democracy in the schoolhouse, while challenging themselves and their school community.

This book is a straightforward, highly readable book about bullying in athletics.

This book prepares school administrators to successfully negotiate complex individualized education plans between parents and school personnel, offering clear step-by-step guidelines for preparing and leading such meetings.

Based upon the research of 45 interviews conducted in Texas and Arkansas, High-Stakes Teaching presents strategies that successfully blend child-centered and test-centered teaching into one focus, creating a consistently high-quality instructional environment.

Addresses the dilemmas teachers face every day throughout the various aspects of education. This book outlines standards of professionalism and presents information helpful for the challenges teachers face. It guides the teachers towards developing ethical habits and a professional demeanor.

Captures what it means to be a teacher. This book mirrors a teacher's playful sense of irony and a deep appreciation of the old wisdom about feeling the impact of the great, occasional and accidental joy which comes with teaching.

A guide to the euphoric highs and unimaginable lows of teaching. It helps new teachers, students who want to become teachers, and educators in the business of training and hiring new teachers, see the realities that cannot be conveyed through college classes.

Helps leaders at various levels understand how to operate ethically during politically volatile times and how to deal with the special groups that are unique to the educational settingelected boards, citizen groups, unions, and volunteers.

Provides school communities with the knowledge and skills to close the achievement gap. This book shows how to the use the information available on the brain to help students achieve educational excellence and provides hope, confidence, and the know-how to accomplish the task of insuring that children meet the academic standards that are required.

Drawing from the writings of John Dewey, this book advocates his notion that democracy is an appropriate ethic to respond to the diverse interests, needs, and values in conflict in educational settings. It provides the foundation for understanding ethical tensions, as well as the methods and applications to reason through them.

Presents information on how to identify relevant demographic trends and create community partnerships to address the educational, cultural, vocational, and recreational needs of students and citizens in multicultural communities. Grounded in ISLLC and NCATE standards, this book offers research-based information, program ideas, and Internet sites.

In Surviving and Thriving as a Superintendent of Schools, former superintendent Stephen Dlott presents a positive perspective of what superintendents need to do to become successful. A combination of sensitivity and humor, this book offers practical solutions to the daily challenges that confront administrators.

Detailing an approach to identifying, analyzing, acquiring, and using specific competencies that are needed for effective and accountable school leadership, this book identifies ways in which leaders can improve their performance. It helps to meet the challenge of maintaining safety and rule enforcement.

This work seeks to address the absence of serious theological discussion in our culture and in our material society. McGaughey creates two new paradigms for the validity of faith and experience and discusses Christianity in the new century as a 'Faith Seeking Understanding.'

Wisnewski provides a concise introduction to Heidegger's work through the lens of his best-known book, Being and Time. This insightful, new text guides students through Heidegger's challenging ideas to help them understand his writings as a whole and his influence on modern thought.

How the West responds to China's emergence as a great power will go far toward determining the course of world politics in the years ahead. This study examines Chinese concerns and behaviour in areas of crucial importance to the United States.

An analysis of the theory and practice of the citizen-soldier. Using a postmodern feminist lens and seeking to sever the connection between masculinity and citizenship, it calls for women to engage in practices traditionally associated with masculine republican citizenship.