Bücher veröffentlicht von Rowman & Littlefield

Now in its 23rd edition, the Environmental Law Handbook gives readers a comprehensive and up-to-date look at the major environmental laws affecting U.S. businesses and organizations. Written and compiled by the country's leading environmental law firms, it provides the comprehensive and reliable guidance you can trust.

This book asks teachers to consider pragmatic and sensible ways to teach Gen Z and to understand the differences between today's students and those of the past.

This book investigates blogs as digital spaces where students can practice writing and converse with an authentic audience. It focuses on idea development and gives students voice.

Building Powerful Learning Environments takes a close look at the trends of the Post-Digital Era through the prism of how systems of education can meet the needs of our times and offers a systemic approach to creating a different canvas for learning that aligns to these changes. At the center of the book are the concepts of a learning environment and a culture of partnerships.

The purpose of this book is to help higher education professionals approach social media initiatives strategically. It presents a framework for systematically thinking about the Internet Technology Environments (ITE) in which faculty, staff, and administrators operate.

This book provides resources for teachers in grades 3 - 6 to take advantage of teachable moments by drawing students into productive intellectual discussions. It also provides an overview of the rationale and research base for engaging students in educational activities that are truly intellectual and not limited to training for testing success.

This book provides the first broad history of the evolution of combined operations since antiquity. Jeremy Black provides a balanced assessment of strategic, operational, and technical developments over time, considering both the potential and the limitations of amphibious and airborne warfare-past, present, and future.

Now updated with a substantive new introduction, this compelling social history uses diaries, memoirs, fiction, trial testimony, personal recollections, and eyewitness accounts to weave a fascinating tale of what ordinary Japanese endured throughout their country's era of booming economic growth.

In this actionable roadmap to improved marketing ROI, Rosen and Minsky show how businesses-from Fortune 500s to local entrepreneurs-can manage today's complex and fragmented marketing landscape, respond to consumers' new tech-enabled paths-to-purchase, and overcome behavioral barriers to more effectively and efficiently build brands and business.

This book guides those interested in writing grants through the grant process - from gathering basic information about an organization through accepting and implementing the grant award - as well as including a new chapter on how to become a grant writer. Updated information and resources plus samples, examples, and worksheets related to writing successful grants are included.

Diversity in the Power Elite examines the diversity that exists-and doesn't exist-among America's powerful people. Revised and updated throughout, this edition contrasts profound changes such as the election of Barack Obama and the growing acceptance of LGBTQ people with the stark reality that little diversity exists in many circles of power.

Beyond Buzzwords examines popular but ineffective instructional concepts and explains why many popular educational ideas lack evidence and theoretical support for improving instruction. This book also critically examines instructional goals and the meaning of evidence-based instruction.

This book identifies multiple university programs where partnerships create ongoing collaborative activities that sets the stage for leadership development, program expansion and growth, and utilization of partnerships that support student, community and University initiatives.

There is too much testing in American Public Schools that is robbing teachers of valuable instructional time. Testing Too Much? provides three models to use in cutting back on non-mandated testing by 25% to help school leaders and teachers find ways to improve their instruction and the educational experiences of their students.

How do you become a more empowering leader? Leaders need to supercharge their leadership skills to empower others to meet the demands of technological advances, globalization and rapid change. As you nurture these seeds of empowerment you will make better choices and increasingly become a more empowering leader.

This book is a practical guide for educators who are working with Muslim youth in PK-12 schools to understand issues that may impact Muslim students today. It outlines basic information about the Muslim community and presents topics such as peer relationships, bullying, and anti-bias pedagogy, through school-based vignettes and case studies.

Helping Parents Understand the Minds and Hearts of Generation Z allows parents and children to speak for themselves, provides parents insights into how Gen Z thinks, the ways their brains learn, and illustrates why children of this technological generation believe and act the ways they do.

Translanguaging is a new approach that incorporates students' languages and cultures with the goal of strengthening academic achievement. This book focuses on Spanish-speaking emergent bilingual learners.

The Latest Early American Literature both negatively critiques how the latest scholarly receptions of early American literature differ insignificantly from the earliest ones and positively proposes how a transnationalist concession-that America's neocolonial culture lags behind that of Europe-might advance postmodern theorizing.

Common Sense about Common Core breaks down everything you need to know about the Common Core, from how it was implemented to where we are now. This book will show that Common Core is a necessary initiative for achieving America's Race to the Top.

Positive school culture is at the heart of effective teaching and learning. As such, improving a school's culture is a critical component to school transformation. This resource provides school leaders with a concrete professional development plan for staff and students designed to eliminate power struggles in order to improve school culture.