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  • Personal Influence

    The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications

    by Elihu Katz, Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Elmo Roper ...
    First published in 1955, "Personal Influence" reports the results of a pioneering study conducted in Decatur, Illinois, validating Paul Lazarsfeld's serendipitous discovery that messages from the media may be further mediated by informal "opinion leaders" who intercept, interpret, and diffuse what they see and hear to the personal networks in which they are embedded. This classic volume set the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Real Education

    Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality

    by Charles Murray ...
    With four simple truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve, sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America’s educational establishment.Ability varies. Children differ in their ability to learn academic material. Doing our best for every child requires, above all else, that we embrace that simplest of truths. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Schools We Need

    And Why We Don't Have Them

    by E.D. Hirsch Jr. ...
    This paperback edition, with a new introduction, offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America's schooling methods and ideas--by one of America's most important educators, and author of the bestselling Cultural Literacy.For over fifty years, American schools have operated under the assumption that challenging children academically is unnatural for them, that ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Understanding Human Values

    by Milton Rokeach ...
    This volume presents theoretical, methodological, and empirical advances in understanding, and also in the effects of understanding, individual and societal values. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Unfaithful Angels

    How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission

    by Harry Specht, Mark E. Courtney ...
    In this provocative examination of the fall of the profession of social work from its original mission to aid and serve the underprivileged, Harry Specht and Mark Courtney show how America's excessive trust in individualistic solutions to social problems have led to the abandonment of the poor in this country.A large proportion of all certified social workers today have left the social services to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Evidence

    by Howard S. Becker ...
    Howard S. Becker is a master of his discipline. His reputation as a teacher, as well as a sociologist, is supported by his best-selling quartet of sociological guidebooks: Writing for Social Scientists, Tricks of the Trade, Telling About Society, and What About Mozart? What About Murder? It turns out that the master sociologist has yet one more trick up his sleeve—a fifth guidebook, Evidence ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Testing for Learning

    by Ruth Mitchell ...
    Arguing that traditional, test-based evaluation has a negative effect on many students, this book describes new methods of assessing student performance. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Columbia Guide to Social Work Writing

    Edited by Warren Green, Barbara Levy Simon ...
    Social work practitioners write for a variety of publications, and they are expected to show fluency in a number of related fields. Whether the target is a course instructor, scholarly journal, fellowship organization, or general news outlet, social workers must be clear, persuasive, and comprehensive in their writing, especially on provocative subjects. This first-of-its-kind guide features top ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Decision Making in Educational Leadership

    Principles, Policies, and Practices

    Edited by Stephanie Chitpin, Colin W. Evers ...
    The increased focus on raising standards in education requires leaders to engage in complex decision making about teacher assessment, mandated accountability measures, and the collection and use of large amounts of data. Showcasing exemplary practices of school and district administrators, Decision Making in Educational Leadership covers issues concerning the role of emotion, ethical and legal ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Curriculum

    Passion and Professionalism

    by Decker F. Walker ...
    Graduate students and teachers of introductory graduate courses in curriculum have many textbooks to choose from. What is special about Fundamentals of Curriculum: Passion and Professionalism, Second Edition?Content and approach: Clear, focused, and tightly structured, this text provides essential information and resources education professionals need to effectively deal with the urgent and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Great Minds in Management

    The Process of Theory Development

    Edited by Ken G. Smith, Michael A. Hitt ...
    In Great Minds In Management Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt have brought together some of the most influential and original thinkers in management. Their contributions to this volume not only outline their landmark contributions to management theory, but also reflect on the process of theory development, presenting their own personal accounts of the gestation of these theories. The result is not ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Public Policy and Program Evaluation

    by Evert Vedung ...
    Series series Comparative Policy Evaluation
    Evaluation is a controversial and little-understood strategy of public governance, control, and decision making. As early as classical antiquity, scholars were summoned to court to counsel kings. Public policy and program evaluation is a recent addition to the great chain of attempts to use the brainpower of scholars and scientists to further the interests of the state. Evaluation scholars are ... Read more

    $67.99 USD