Bücher veröffentlicht von SAGE Publications Inc

Crimes of Hate: Selected Readings is the first comprehensive reader to offer an up-to-date, multidisciplinary examination of hate crimes. With introductions, discussion questions, and resource lists, this unique anthology combines the most current research on hate crimes with accessible articles from scholarly and legal journals.

African American children develop a duality for their existence. To be fully functional, they must develop the skills to do well simultaneously in two different cultures, both black and non-black. This volume explores the meaning of this duality in four distinct environments: socioeconomic, parental, internal, and educational.

The common view today is that state schools are not good enough, and that something must be done to make them better. Setting academic standards is one way to raise the educational achievment of students. John F Jennings gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at how congress and the Executive Branch have wrestled with this issue, and reviews the major debates about whether or not there should be testable national standards for all American schools.

Guy Adams and Danny Balfour maintain that administrative evil, or destructiveness, is inherent in modern public administration. The authors go beyond a critique of public administration to lay the groundwork for a more effective and humane public administration.

Formerly published by Peytral Publications Filled with practical strategies for all students in an inclusive classroom, this guide includes 100 reproducibles to aid in communication, lesson planning, student behavior, accommodations, assessments, and more.

Find hundreds of helpful brain research-based techniques for lesson planning and for promoting improved vocabulary retention, better understanding of grammar, and enhanced speaking and writing skills.

The concise, quick-reference guide to key concepts in corporate social responsibility and business ethics.

Leslie Laud provides a clear roadmap for using formative assessment to differentiate math instruction. This book cites the latest research and describes the instructional procedures found most effective for teaching mathematics (grades 4-10) through a unique comprehensive framework of seven research-based practices.

Shows how social marketing can be successfully used to change environmental behaviour

Work Motivation: History, Theory, Research, and Practice provides unique behavioural science frameworks for motivating employees in organizational settings.

This is a resource for school leaders looking to fine-tune their leadership style. Feinstein and Kiner combine cognitive knowledge of brain function and new insights on strength based leadership, to help school leaders develop strategies that will enhance student learning in an environment that maximizes student and faculty potential.

This teacher-friendly guide introduces educators to basic linguistic features and language components as well as to strategies for moving students from social to academic language.

Part of the 'little green books' QASS series, this text provides a clear introduction to ordinal item response theory.

This book describes a research-based model for creating intervention plans to modify extremely challenging behavior. Included are success stories and tools, including analysis forms, charts, and templates.

Collaborate, Communicate, and Differentiate! takes collaboration out of the abstract and applies it to daily tasks such as differentiating instruction; communicating with families; assessing students with diverse backgrounds and abilities; co-teaching; and coordinating with all staff members.

Peter Cookson asserts that all children have the right to an excellent education, and provides steps for creating an action plan that will lead to equitable schools.

Looking at topics such as boot camps, the death penalty and parental responsibility, this is an important resource for students of criminology and related disciplines.

This text looks at key issues in the field such as DNA evidence, eyewitness accuracy and the jury system.

Bringing together work from experts in the field this text looks at key issues such as euthanasia, drug laws and terrorism and extremism.

Practical guidance for teachers to bring science alive for their students and help children engage with science in everyday life.

Security expert Kenneth S. Trump outlines school security issues and provides nuts-and-bolts strategies for preventing violence and preparing for crises. Includes a companion website.

Broad in scope and edited by two massive names in geography, this is a critical exploration of how the field has emerged and fared over the course of its modern institutionalization.

Helping the reader to make research decisions, this text is an introductory guide to the basics of sampling.

This cutting-edge collection features the works of recognized pioneers in educational neuroscience and shows how to apply current brain research to teaching and learning.

Focusing on empirical research, this is an engaging and critical guide through each step of the research process, outlining the procedures, differences, strengths and limitations of metric, interpretive and the newer hybrid approaches.

Advises teachers how to avoid simply becoming a mirror image of the teachers who taught them and to embrace their own vision as well as showing principals how to build up teacher leaders under them. Covers subjects of collaboration, building capacity, teacher development, and reflection from the leader's perspective.

In The Human Behaviour Theory, the authors use a critical thinking approach to engage students to think in depth about theory and its use in social work practice. With a strong focus on diversity, this book expands its theory coverage to include progressive and the most cutting-edge contemporary thinking.

Designed to meet the needs of public health students, practitioners, and researchers, this Second Edition offers a firm grounding in qualitative and mixed methods, including their social science roots and public health applications.

The most current research on neuroscience and leadership describes how to translate that into maximized leadership effectiveness and student learning.

A detailed, imaginative approach to five key social theorists who have helped to shape modern thought. Robbins is a world class expert and his book represents a significant development in the field of french social theory.