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Mariner Books, September 1999. Trade Paperback. The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: Do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in much the same way we.....
Pro-Ed, January 1996. Trade Paperback.
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Scribner, October 2008. Hardcover. From a distinguished clinician, pioneer in working with behaviorally challenging kids, and author of the acclaimed The Explosive Child comes a groundbreaking approach for understanding and helping these kids and transforming school discipline. Frequent visits to the principal's office. Detentions. Suspensions. Expulsions. These are the established.....
Bantam Books, May 1968. Mass Market Paperback.
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Routledge, May 2014. Paperback. Finding the right candidate for administrative, professional and faculty positions is one of the most important tasks that any institution or enterprise undertakes. However, few higher education professionals receive training on the search committee process, but are expected to serve on or lead committees. This book.....
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Routledge, October 2009. Trade Paperback. Within a historical and contemporary context, this book examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. In addition to describing the major problems facing the field, the book highlights service innovations that have been developed in.....
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University of Chicago Press, December 1999. Trade Paperback. Unlike their counterparts on the high school or elementary school level, those who teach college students have extensive training in their various disciplines, but surprisingly little instruction in the craft of teaching itself. The Chicago Handbook for Teachers is an extraordinarily helpful.....
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Mariner Books, September 1999. Trade Paperback. The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: Do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in much the same way we.....
Princeton-Brookings, 2016. Paperback.
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RAND Corporation, June 2002. Trade Paperback. Lessons learned from Pittsburgh's bold but troubled Early Childhood Initiative.
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HarperOne, May 1993. Trade Paperback. A spirituality of education that challenges teachers to move beyond conventional ideas of instruction and learning to develop vital new teaching methods incorporating insights from traditional contemplative wisdom.
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Bold Type Books, March 2021. Hardcover. Across America, universities have become big businesses--and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America's cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new.....
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Basic Books, November 2011. Trade Paperback. A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, The Death and Life of the Great American School System is a radical change of heart from one of America's best-known education experts. Diane Ravitch--former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive.....
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Hardcover.
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Broadway Books, August 2006. Trade Paperback. Since the early 1980s, when the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, segregation of black children has reverted to its highest level since 1968. In many inner-city schools, a stick-and-carrot method of behavioral control traditionally used in.....
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Corwin Publishers, July 2004. Trade Paperback. Fullan provides a comprehensive examination of what leaders at all levels of the educational system can do to promote large-scale, sustainable reform.
Schocken Books. Hardcover.
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Heinemann, February 1999. Trade Paperback. Highlighting; binding cracked. Highlighting; binding cracked. Teaching the lessons of New York's most famous public school, Deborah Meier provides a widely acclaimed vision for the future of public education.
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Jossey-Bass, January 1998. Hardcover. "A must read for those seeking high standards for all students. With unusual insight, the authors address the major issues, offering inspirational examples of schools that succeed." --Jerome T. Murphy, professor and dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education This timely, tough-minded book shows how American public.....
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Simon & Schuster, January 2003. Hardcover. Dr. Mel Levine shows that neurodevelopmental dysfunctions are often the true cause of perceived laziness in children and offers solutions. How many times have you heard a teacher say that your child has tremendous potential "if only he'd just apply himself" or "if only.....
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Jossey-Bass, May 1997. Hardcover. Pencil markings within. Pencil markings within. Winner of AERA Outstanding Book Award in 1998 "While she recognizes the necessity for school reform and the complexity of implementing it, Darling-Hammond remains optimistic that systemic changes to ensure access to a meaningful education for all children are possible.....
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STYLUS PUBLISHING LLC, NA. Trade Paperback. Some underlining and notes throughout. Some underlining and notes throughout. Neuroscience tells us that the products of the mind--thought, emotions, artistic creation--are the result of the interactions of the biological brain with our senses and the physical world: in short, that thinking and learning.....
Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, January 1989. Trade Paperback.
Oxford University Press. Hardcover.
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Corwin Publishers, December 2005. Trade Paperback. This updated edition of the powerful bestseller examines new research on brain functioning and translates this information into effective classroom strategies and activities.
