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Analyzes patterns of political participation by citizens and offers five different explanations for those patterns based on research findings. This book also analyzes symbolic and instrumental forms of participation - from the simple act of discussing politics to the complex one of running for office.

A record of Congressional Quarterly's exhaustive coverage of the 1970s Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard M Nixon. It covers President Nixon's resignation, his later pardon by successor Gerald Ford, the trail of conspirators in the events, and extensive excerpts from transcripts of White House conversations.

The author of this study turns his attention to the everyday, less visible forms of nationalism that are deeply ingrained in contemporary consciousness. This form of nationalism, which is neither exotic nor remote, he describes as "banal nationalism".

Major themes include nature versus nurture in arts talent development, teacher empowerment, and collaboration with community members.

This work introduces students to the process of programme evaluation and the experimental and quasi-experimental approaches to evaluation. It covers approaches to outcome evaluations, measurement, and benchmarking.

By integrating power transition theory and national policy, this title explores emerging issues in world politics in the 21st century, including proliferation and deterrence, the international political economy, regional hierarchies, and the role of alliances. It draws a map of the new world that can stimulate, provoke, and offer solutions.

Built on Bloom's Taxonomy, this resource helps middle and high school teachers write measurable, standards-based lesson plan objectives and develop assessments in the content areas.

This resource offers math activities, planning activities, and a facilitator's guide for developing mathematics leaders' coaching practice and knowledge of math teaching and learning.

With helpful hints on lesson planning, classroom management, student assessment, and more, this resource provides essential knowledge and activities that novice teachers need to become exceptional.

Develop students' test-taking skills with a fun, three-week instructional unit that helps them excel in multiple test formats while building strong metacognitive skills for lifelong learning.

Presents the important theories, methodologies, and practices in feminist family studies. This title showcases feminist family scholarship, providing both a retrospective and a prospective overview of the field and creating a scholarly forum for interpretation and dissemination of feminist work.

Use this guide to identify students with ASD, organize the classroom; manage time; promote independence, communication, and appropriate behaviors; and select visual strategies, tools, and curriculum resources.

This second edition guides principals through the process of creating a proactive, student-centered school safety program and offers new case studies, vignettes, and strategies.

By drawing on international cross-phase and cross-disciplinary research perspectives, this book offers a comprehensive review of writing development, invaluable for researchers and practitioners alike.

Brain-Compatible Classrooms shares key brain research and its implications for curriculum, instruction, and assessment in the primary-college classroom.

Long awaited second edition of this classic handbook.

Comprehensive, innovative and engaging exploration of current social geography, edited by high profile academics in the field.

This title offers the latest brain research about learning and behaviour challenges and provides teachers with developmentally appropriate practices to help children.

Combining theory with proven teaching strategies, this resource helps preschool educators produce strong language and literacy outcomes for English learners ages 3 to 5.

Based on an extensive research, this practical teaching resource provides instructional and assessment guidelines for strengthening students' higher-order thinking and reasoning skills.

This workbook is a practical introduction to the skill of social research. It is intended for use in introductory sociology courses and may be combined with most of the standard textbooks in the field.

Grounded in the constructivist inquiry approach to science teaching and learning, Essentials of Science Classroom Assessment bridges science assessment research and practice, and connects science assessment and learning.

This user-friendly resource provides step-by-step guidance and a detailed template for creating meaningful lessons that are differentiated according to students' learning characteristics.

This book is designed to help teachers at all grade levels engage students in active problem solving

This title reveals the key characteristics of excellent teachers. The authors demonstrate how teachers can learn to recognize their own talents and skills, cultivate successful traits in their teaching experiences, and translate those qualities into outstanding leadership in their schools.

This book provides an impressively comprehensive critical review of contemporary issues, debates and trends across the domain of organizational research. It will be an indispensible reference work for all organizational researchers.

This handbook provides a clear, critical examination of case-oriented research. It defines case-based social research as a subfield of methodology.

The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics brings together the theoretical, methodological and substantive elements of comparative politics into one volume.

Cycling from practice to theory and back again, this concise book provides the skinny on motion leadership, or how to 'move' individuals, institutions, and whole systems forward.

Based on inspiring case studies, this new edition of a popular book on one of the most used research methods in education covers all the main models used and includes contributions from experts in the field.