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This unique resource marries knowledge about testing and test preparation with school improvement, providing a comprehensive guide for administrators.

The first to make the connection between the new standards and the principal's leadership role in creating and sustaining a school's culture and values, this simple, consistent format includes a standard, followed by the philosophical framework and case studies.

Help students be more focused and team-oriented and become the true drivers of their own learning by directing their learning and planning down one of several broad career avenues.

Full of field-tested implementation tools, this comprehensive handbook shows how schools and districts can use the Balanced Curriculum process to put their schools on the track to success.

This newly updated edition features a tried-and-true plan for effective instruction; encompasses independent learning; integrates instruction, learning, and assessment into an effective model for teaching; and more!

The authors provide principals with the tools needed to help teachers and staff enhance their skills and improve student learning.

This easy-to-use book provides practical strategies for initializing, maximizing, and evaluating Professional Development Schools-from meeting the standards, to hands-on tool kits and "quick-check" self-assessments.

Specifically designed for the K-12 inclusive classroom, this timely handbook demonstrates how to easily and effectively capitalize on available technology.

This highly usable, hands-on guide offers that much-needed and fully integrated support system for the building-level supervisor to truly become a teacher of teachers.

The first of its kind, this unique text identifies the knowledge needed by current and aspiring school district CEOs to become high performers.

This volume presents an examination of both the common and unusual acts of murder in light of society's changing norms, values, attitudes, and customs. Each chapter explores a specific type of murder by examining trends, methods, motives and statistics, and concludes with suggestions aimed at prediction and prevention.

In the course of analysis the case will be faceted either by different perspectives of inquiry or by several sub-units. This book presents different methodological approaches to organize this faceting process.

The authors draw on findings from their own research on sexual and romantic attraction, as well as on an extensive review of the relevant social, behavioural and medical literature.

Through the use of specific examples to illustrate evaluation research goals and methods, this book provides readers with an overview of the science and politics of evaluation research. The Second Edition includes coverage of meta-analysis, selection models and instrumental variables.

This book explores how a range of behaviour change strategies can successfully be used in a variety of contexts. It details experiences of programmes for the prevention and control of the world's biggest killers: malnutrition; respiratory infections; diarrhea; HIV/AIDS; and health problems arising from tobacco consumption and lack of access to family planning.

Emerging Information Technology explores cutting-edge research on emerging information technologies and their specific relevance for professionals in the business world. Kenneth E Kendall bridges the gap between the emergence of information technology, and its application and relevance for managers, consultants, decision makers and researchers.

This book addresses issues of how to develop new service products -- where the concept of service has moved from transaction to experience.

This is a study of migration as a process that sometimes leads to youthful crime beyond the norms of either the home or host culture. Waters uses data from 100 years of US immigration records to examine immigrant groups such as Laotians, Koreans and Mexicans in the late 20th century.

Combining research with substantive proposals for new standards, this book reveals that the greater the involvement level of viewers in a particular television programme, the greater the impact of the advertising carried by that programme.

An up-to-date presentation of language use and communication skills in alternative populations. It is aimed at an audience already exposed to psycholinguistics.

Presents current critical theory on the creation of masculinities in school environments.

The motivations for pursuing a career in electoral politics in the United States are examined in this fascinating insight into the development of political careers, from local elections through to the Presidency.

Demonstrates how what we can finally control us - the terminal stage of the social disease of acquisitive desire for material things. Jeffrey Kottler makes clear that satisfaction comes not from owning possessions, but from their legitimate use for amusement, stimulation or learning.

Examining the effects of the Internet on American politics, this book reveals its potential as a tool for empowering people to challenge existing power structures. However, the authors show how the American political system tends to normalize political activity, and thus the Internet's vast subversive potential could be lost, rendering it just another purveyor of ignored information.

Mega Planning involves significant stakeholders in defining success and then identifies what each person and part of an organization must do to succeed. The author uses proven techniques, and covers the basic `how-to's' of quality management, needs assessment, gap analysis, benchmarking, reengineering, and continuous improvement.