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This straightforward guide helps school leaders and district stakeholders confidently translate the Common Core and the 21st Century Skills into a comprehensive K-12 instructional system.

Systematically address common mathematical misunderstandings by children ages 8 to 11, with 20 easy-to-implement assessments for continuously monitored learning.

A succinct overview and practical guide to building relationships with children who are at risk for failure in schools-both academically and socially.

Offering an interdisciplinary approach to child advocacy, this book nurtures key skills through a proven six-step process that has been used to train child advocates and create social change around the world.

This is the first attempt to apply the powerful framework and tools of polarity management to the field of educational reform.

This hands-on guide shows psychology students how to use MATLAB for analyzing experimental data. Written in a conversational and non-intimidating style, the author walks students step-by-step through importing their data, working with their data, and plotting data for presentation-ready figures and graphs.

Containing original chapters written by experts and scholars in the field, this text will highlight the current debates about criminal justice policy and discuss the implications for the system and society at large.

Provides coverage of state government and politics, along with the states' current and future public policies. This book offering students, scholars, citizens, policy advocates, and state specialists accessible information on state politics and policy in 33 topical chapters written by experts in the field.

A popular text/reader hybrid, combining the major writings of sociology's core contemporary theorists with a historical and theoretical framework.

This book engages teachers in a thoughtful exploration of motivation in the classroom, showing how to apply principles, practices, and strategies which motivate in a dynamic way, actively involving students, teachers and the school.

A highly practical book for courses on human service/social work administration which takes students through the nuts and bolts of managing a human service agency.

This companion to the bestselling differentiated instruction guide features step-by-step training activities, guidelines for individualized support, research-based responses to concerns, evaluation tools, and coaching tips.

This text covers all historically and current classroom assessment approaches and includes a review of compelling evidence for the use of each classroom assessment approach, demonstrating why the approaches are considered best practice and research-based.

The ideal core text for courseS on Families in Later Life, this is the only book on the subject that addresses the diversity of aging experiences in society by race, gender, and social class, and in a form which combines insight from the humanities as well as the social sciences.

Presents research that explores the varied intersections between Education, Democracy, and the Public Good. This book gives readers a broader perspective on how the three constructs are interconnected and applied in the United States and in other countries around the world.

This book provides elementary school teachers with strategies to unleash the learning superpowers of students that foster inquiry-based, student-driven classrooms.

This book highlights the elements of effective Rounds and provides facilitators with specific skills that will enable them to develop well-functioning teacher Rounds groups that improve instruction and student learning in their schools.

Presenting excerpts from documents on the important events of each year for the US and the world, this title includes approximately 70 events with well over 100 documents from the previous year, from official or other influential reports and surveys, to speeches from leaders and opinion makers, to court cases, legislation, testimony, and more.

Focussing on applied knowledge and providing straightforward coverage of R objects and functions, this introduction helps students with little or no background in statistics or programming to develop real-world R skills.

Looking beyond the individual office holders to the office itself, this Fourth Edition of Vital Statistics on the Presidency allows readers to recognize major themes across presidential administrations and to reach overall conclusions about the nature of the institution and its future.

Guide to U.S. Economic Policy shows students and researchers how issues and actions are translated into public policies for resolving economic problems (like the Great Recession) or managing economic conflict (like the left-right ideological split over the role of government regulation in markets).

This is a must-have resource for researchers and students who seek to deepen their understanding of the connection between science and politics.

Via narrative supported by extensive tables and charts, Vital Statistics on Interest Groups and Lobbying provides a broad, comprehensive and informative view of lobbying, interest groups and campaign contributions and their impact on American national politics.

Part of the Sage Contemporary Family Perspective series, this book presents a comprehensive an understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families today by drawing upon and making sense of the burgeoning scholarly literature about LGBT families from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Transnational Organized Crime: An Overview from Six Continents explores the expansive topic of transnational organized crime, incorporating expert perspectives found throughout the world's six inhabited continents: North America, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

Even highly effective leaders can succumb to the change-killing forces of the status quo. Flywheel is a transformational leadership coaching approach that places the focus of control firmly in the hands of the person being coached, not the person doing the coaching.

Learn to increase educators' cultural competency, overcome institutionalized factors that limit achievement, and implement equitable practices--with real-life success stories, exercises, and dedicated online resources.

Guides readers through an understanding of how to create and sustain school cultures that value dispositional learning; ideally suited for use with Common Core implementation initiatives at school and district level.

Explaining the techniques and applications of exponential random graph modeling (ERGM) for social scientists, this is a uniquely sophisticated volume for examining social systems.

Drawing on recent "event history" analytical methods from biostatistics, engineering and sociology, this book explains how longitudinal data can be used to study the causes of deaths, crimes, wars, and many other human-related events.