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This sequel to the bestseller provides extended perspectives, activities, and guidelines for changing schools.

This book proposes a new model in classroom management which helps teachers foster leadership in themselves and their students.

This book guides superintendents in Texas through the Superintendent TExES Exam, but it will also be useful to others across the nation and around the world

Cutting edge, student friendly exploration of the relationship between media and politics, relying on a comprehensive review of the news coverage of the wars in Afghanistand and Iraq as case study.

Providing students with in-depth coverage of families, groups, and communities, this text encourages readers to understand the nature of key macro institutions' impact on human behaviors (and vice versa). Students develop a solid knowledge of different macro HBSE theories including community, human conduct, inequality, and group theories.

Providing a clear framework, this volume helps headteachers align assessment and reporting practices with standards-based education and develop more detailed reports of children's learning and progress.

This guide for head teachers integrates evolutionary change theory with research on continuous improvement to enable school change that improves teaching and learning.

Examines contemporary immigration across the globe, focusing on 20 major nations. This title introduce students to important topics of inquiry at the heart of the field, including movement; settlement; and, control.

A supplemental resource for the text: Family Therapy: Models, Skills and Techniques: A Comprehensive Introduction, and the Instructors Manual.

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How important is family structure? Does the perception that children of divorced parents suffer hold true under the scrutiny of research? Is the traditional two parent/two child family ideal in terms of well-being? In this volume, two leading family researchers analyze these crucial questions. Using the United States National Survey of Families and Households, they examine the four most common family types - two parent families, divorced mothers with children, remarried families and unmarried mothers - to analyze the impact of family structure versus other factors.

The phrase `production of culture' is concerned with how the organizations in which culture is produced and disseminated affect the nature of culture itself. Yet there is no clear consensus on what is meant by this phrase. Crane, in reviewing and synthesizing current research, provides a systematic and accessible approach to this complex subject.She examines the issue on both popular and elite levels. The reader is thus allowed to see how the notion of `production' changes depending on the size of the audience and the structure of the particular cultural industry.

Offers an introduction to a range of research methods with the objective of clarifying procedures, good practice and public accountability. This book covers different ways of collecting data and different types of data relating to text, image and sound. It also introduces the main analytic approaches for text, image and sound.

Suggesting an alternative to traditional criteria used when considering budget cuts, this guide shows school leaders how to draw on brain research in their decision-making process.

Using Goleman's five components of emotional intelligence as a basis, this book shows teachers how to both develop and enhance their own emotional intelligence for use in the classroom.

By analysing emerging models of bilingual education, this guide enables practitioners to meet the challenges they face when teaching English Language Learners.

This guide provides teachers with practices that will allow them to relate to students of all levels, thereby facilitating learning and producing improved student outcomes.

By covering the many aspects of technology in school settings, this book gives educational leaders the skills and confidence to manage technology in their schools

Based on the most recent and reliable scientific research, this text will give any educator involved with child psychiatric disorders the confidence and knowledge they need to go about their work

Offers a unified framework to help students and researchers to analyze and understand any social science data that are organized in cross-classified formats.

Based on the most recent and reliable scientific research, this text will give any educator involved with pediatric disorders the confidence and knowledge they need to go about their work

Written for school psychologists, counselors, administrators, and teachers, this title provides balanced and practical perspectives on important health issues. It is divided into three sections, with each chapter featuring a case study, background information, strategies for educators, handouts, and a review of various scientific research.

Through a wide range of readings this anthology explores the role of teachers in the United States

By focusing on teachers and schools from a variety of communities, this book presents the reader with many cases of successful literacy teaching.

A cutting edge overview of this topical subject, looking at past, present and future distributions of plants and animals.

A manual of sociological research exercises to be completed in class or independently, with a consistent stress on aspects of globalization.

This book shows teachers how to build emotional strength to prevent stress and/or burnout by discovering how stress affects health, how to boost psychological immunity, and how to maintain teaching effectiveness!

A practical guide to needs assessment which offers practitioners a full resource to improving individual, group, organization or inter-organizational performance in the workplace

Multifaceted Assessment for Early Childhood Education is an ideal textbook for students on courses in early childhood education assessment.

Making Connections in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies, Second Edition is the best text for teaching primary school teachers how to integrate social studies into other content areas.