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The author explains how to base teaching on an understanding of learning style differences, and how to attend to the needs of the individual while teaching for the needs of the whole class.

Intensive scheduling or block scheduling has become a controversial educational reform initiative in the United States. This book centres on the difficult questions that surface about intensive scheduling and addresses important concerns and common successes. Unlike other books that cover this topic from a theoretical standpoint, the book provides a blueprint from a practitioner's perspective.

Examines how well the educational administration reforms in Uniteed States as recommended by the National Commission in Educational Administration, have been implemented. A valuable book for anyone involved in the educational administration process.

This easy-to-use reference tool translates the latest research results and provides tips for K-12 math teachers.

This unique and timely guide offers teachers an introduction to using cable television in the classroom. Randi Stone, a 1996 Continental Cablevision National Cable Educator Award Winner, shares her experience in teaching with cable TV. The book caters for novices and teachers already using cable who are looking for new ideas.

This practical, hands-on guide provides site-based management teams with the essential steps to implementation that will enable teams to spend less time organizing and establishing policies, and more time focusing on the substantive issues of school change.

In school reform, students are rarely consulted. This book presents a step-by-step process for involving students in transforming schools and empowering them to make real decisions that affect their education.

This book details the process of developing agreements between high schools and colleges in the United States to allow students to earn both high school and college credit while at high school. The author explains issues including: legal constraints; processes for curriculum alignment; funding sources; and evaluation procedures.

Crammed with strategies, ideas, and techniques to help you boost your students' math SAT I scores.

Focusing on an important emerging issue in United States' education - school reform via privatization - this book is designed to meet three major goals: to examine the foundations and the context of the privatization movement; to review the evidence on privatization in areas other than schooling; and to shape decisions about privatization in the school-reform arena.

A firsthand account of outstanding principals' experiences in shared-governance schools is presented in this book on democratic principal leadership. In particular, the book fills the knowledge gap - the current lack of research-based information on collaborative school-restructuring methods - that has caused many attempts at school restructuring to fail.

The role of the teacher is no longer confined to the classroom or to interactions with students. The authors of this book illustrate through case studies the emerging roles of `dynamic' teachers.

This useful guide demystifies the conference process. The author, a professional meetings planner with 25 years experience, addresses all aspects of conference planning including: programme planning; budgeting; finding a location; advertising; and finding speakers and entertainment.

Providing an analysis of the use of the referendum to decide land use matters in the USA, this study examines the increasing use and future of "ballot box" planning. It includes individual case studies from California, Massachusetts, Maine, New York and Oregon.

Focusing on community-based child abuse prevention programmes, this manual facilitates programme self-evaluation research so that it can be conducted with a minimum of outside technical assistance. It explores models of evaluation and discusses common technical elements of programme evaluation research.

Prepared for use by informed citizens, victims' solicitors, social workers, criminal justice administrators, government officials and legislators, Helping Crime Victims offers the reader practical ideas and realistic strategies in the form of procedural guides and workable programme components and services that seem effective in meeting the needs of crime victims.

Addressing a broad range of clinical situations, this book focuses on the practical application of feminist theory to clinical experience.

This ready-to-use tool kit of fun and functional strategies, based on the National Reading Panel Report, helps teach the most difficult piece of the reading process: comprehension.