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Based on the authors' experiences with the School Turnaround Specialist Program as well as a review of research on successful school improvement projects, Teachers' Guide to School Turnarounds contains a wealth of tips and warnings for those engaged in, or anticipating being engaged in, the process of turning around a low-performing school.

This book gives readers insight into the problems, solutions, and decision-making processes of education and educational administration.

This book provides needed information for those involved in creating or administering an independent school by laying out the issues that must be addressed, but may not be considered.

Written for professors of school administration, Preparing School Leaders provides an overview of the three key dimensions of leadership preparation in school administration: the history of how we arrived at where we are, a critical analysis of current state of affairs, and an agenda for improvement.

This book sheds light on the philosophical, pedagogical, and cultural causes of reading failure and reveals the scientific findings that point to promising solutions.

Presents the way in which faculty members can design web-based and web-assisted instructional delivery approaches to provide students with the opportunity to learn anytime and anyplace. This book stresses the paradigm shift in using technology as an alternative instructional delivery tool.

Here is a comprehensive perspective on the scope of student aggression. This book provides a framework to conceptualize the etiology of violence from a systemic nature and an outline to limit the potential of violence.

Here is a book about a program of structured independent activities that engage students while the teacher works closely with a small group. The program is essentially a system of centers of managing children's individual practice of skills.

Here is an easy to understand guide to elementary education. This book is the first of its kind to take the language of education and define all the words, phrases, and processes involved in a child's school. This book will teach parents how to better support their child in the classroom and at home to ensure his or her educational success.

Here, the author helps readers understand the relationship between the perception of our senses and the thinking that makes it possible for teachers and children to learn within a pedagogical relationship.

This book introduces the ASSIST-ME Model, an instructional design model for web-based instruction and gives a step-by-step procedure that explains how online instruction may be designed.

Here, Robert Brower counters the misdirection of the present reform movement in education. This book details the errors of the present movement and gives a prescription for how to do it right.

We need a more creative approach to teaching writing. A methodology incorporating creativity, as modeled by students in this text, demonstrates the kind of progress we are all seeking, offering an exciting challenge for young writers and educators alike.

Published in partnership with the American Association of School Administrators.

Mastery Teaching Skills is a professional development book that will help teachers and principals implement the Common Core State Standards. This book will help you to achieve a comprehensive set of pedagogical skills to deliver successfully the Common Core Standards.

War With Iran: Political, Military and Economic Consequences provides readers both a history of Iran's relationship with the West and an expert's estimation of what the political, human and financial costs of full-scale war with Iran might be.

These gripping biographies poignantly illustrate the strengths and the vulnerabilities of professional housewives and of families facing social change and economic uncertainty in contemporary Japan.

From depictions in Paleolithic cave art to the Playboy mansion, Plays Well in Groups delves into the fields of sociology, biology, anthropology, and psychology to provide explanations for both, participation in group sex and the complex reactions to it-from fascination to fear.

Previous edition published by Houghton Mifflin.

The books in the Simple Guide to the Gospels series provide accessible new translations of each gospel to help readers understand the important-but often missed-lessons within. Each section includes scripture and brief, engaging commentary about life in early Christianity and today. The books are available individually or as a set.

Theft of a Nation is a powerful criminological examination of Wall Street's recent financial meltdown. Through the lenses of white collar crime and victimology, the book presents a critical assessment of the economic and political elites who were responsible, shows how Americans were victimized, and assesses the resulting regulation.

This comprehensive and practical guide will give millions of women the help they need by providing them with information on: The different types of incontinence and how each is diagnosed and treated, surgical vs. non-surgical treatment, effective self-help techniques and how to find the right doctor.

This work analyses problems of the post-Cold War world such as ethnic and national strife, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and terrorism. Adopting a moral-philosophical perspective, it draws on a tradition of Christian political reflection to cast a moral light on international politics.