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  • Keeping School Children Safe and Alive

    Strategies to Stop Bullying and Prevent Suicide

    by Phyllis E. Gillians, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    To raise awareness of all members of the community - children, parents and school staff about the harm that bullying causes and how children & young people can be protected, including solutions to the problem of rising incidents of bullying and cyber bullying in connection with the use of social networks.This book will improve strategies and responses to incidences of bullying that will address ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Sound School Finance for Educational Excellence

    by Stephen V. Coffin, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    Sound school finance is integral to the provision of a quality education. Indeed, a school district’s budget is the financial representation of its educational plan. Thus, a clarion alert for all teachers: “if it’s not in your budget, it won’t be in your classroom.” However, sound school finance is increasingly challenging in an era of scarce resources. This book provides an in-depth understanding ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Getting and Keeping New Teachers

    Six Essential Steps from Recruitment to Retention

    by Janet D. Mulvey, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    Retaining new teachers has never been easy and when the teachers are on the fast track in urban settings, turnover and retention are real problems. This book examines how schools can work to recruit, support, and somehow hold on to new teachers, many of whom have only limited formal preparation and experience in the classroom. Getting and Keeping New Teachers explores the orientation of new ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Homeschooling in Full View

    A Reader

    Edited by Bruce S. Cooper ...
    This book is a reader that describes, discusses and analyzes homeschooling from an array of different and international perspectives. We portray the energy of this movement, looking at the history of “education writ large” in a larger social, political and religious context. Like most movements in education, this one is both a reaction to the problems and inadequacies of existing schools, and a ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Why School Leaders Need Vision

    Managing Scarcity, Mandates, and Conflicting Goals for Educational Quality

    by Carlos R. McCray, Stephen V. Coffin, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    The concept of “visionary” leadership is defined and applied in this book, as “supervision in schools” requires a level of “SUPER VISION” that can be best developed through quality leadership, mentoring -- and mutual ideas, and support -- for adding more value to the school. This book shows just how vision is important and useful in all schools and districts.Time has thus come to find, build, and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Moving from Teacher Isolation to Collaboration

    Enhancing Professionalism and School Quality

    by Sharon Conley, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    Teaching embodies many roles -- in the classroom through teacher-student interactions, and beyond the classroom through teacher-adult interactions. This book explains and demonstrates how collaboration and teamwork can help enhance professionalism and school quality by overcoming teachers' isolation in the classroom, in the school, and in their work. The contributing authors address: historic ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Fixing Truancy Now

    Inviting Students Back to Class

    by Jonathan Shute, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    Truancy is a complex issue that continues to plague schools, and many blame truancy problems on students, parents, and socioeconomic factors. However, truancy is more than juvenile delinquents skipping school to have fun or be with friends.In Fixing Truancy Now: Inviting Students Back to Class, author Bruce S. Cooperposits that truancy is an indication that school curricula and pedagogy are not ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Screwed-Up School Reform

    Fixing America’s Broken Promise

    by Richard G. Shear, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    The unspoken American promise is that each generation will lead a better, more successful life than the previous one. In earlier times, it was an education that provided the next generations a better life. For today’s children, though, decades of failed school reform have left a generation wondering if this promise has been broken. Despite policies, programs, and resources, American education does ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Understanding the Power and Politics of Public Education

    Implementing Policies to Achieve Equal Opportunity for All

    by Janet Mulvey, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    Understanding the Power and Politics of Public Education researches the history and trends of educating the populace in the United States. Demographic changes and socio-economic diversity have altered the needs for traditional approaches. Policy makers are implored to become familiar with proven educational research to implement policies that service the needs of all youth.Public schools now ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Mentoring for School Quality

    How Educators Can Be More Professional and Effective

    by Carlos R. McCray, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    Making Mentoring Work should help educators to mentor or to be mentored effectively in our schools. We all have had mentors, those key adults from family, work, or schools who have assisted us in learning and becoming good adults, skilled and able professionals, and contributing member of community and society. Although it’s not easy, it does occur, is doable, and this book seeks to help everyone ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Action Research in the Classroom

    Helping Teachers Assess and Improve their Work

    by Mary Ann Jacobs, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    Action Research in the Classroom: Helping Teachers Assess and Improve their Work guides teacher-researchers through the process of using action research in their practice to improve students’ learning and teachers’ teaching. The book uses actual classroom examples to assist aspiring, new, and veteran teachers and those who support them (administrators, department chairpersons, and mentors) in ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Homeschooling in New View

    Edited by Bruce S. Cooper, Frances R. Spielhagen, Carlo Ricci ...
    Home schooling is an important and growing American phenomenon with only our first edition in the field. This new 2nd edition will appeal to the home school world, people interested in American education, and the private school community. Changes in the educational environment in the US over the last ten years have prompted growing numbers of parents to withdraw their children from public ... Read more

    $50.99 USD