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  • Making Sense of Research

    What′s Good, What′s Not, and How To Tell the Difference

    by Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins, Patrick J. McEwan ...
    How can educators make sense of the complexities of research?Making Sense of Research brings together the best of two worlds—the "real" world where education is practiced daily and the "ivory tower" world where research is ongoing. The authors have written this book for practitioners at all levels, from teachers making site-specific decisions such as allocating time, to administrators making ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Economic Evaluation in Education

    Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis

    by Henry M. Levin, Patrick J. McEwan, Clive R. Belfield, A. Brooks Bowden, Robert D. Shand ...
    The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis in education as administrators are being asked to accomplish more with the same or even fewer resources, philanthropists are keen to calculate their "return on investment" in social programs, and the general public is increasingly scrutinizing how resources are allocated to schools and colleges.This text ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Taking Measure of Charter Schools

    Better Assessments, Better Policymaking, Better Schools

    by June Ahn, Larry Angel, Dominic J. Brewer, Laura S. Hamilton, Jeffrey R. Henig, Robin J. Lake, Patrick J. McEwan, Robert B. Olsen, Lydia Rainey, Brian M. Stecher, Y Emily Tang, Andrew C. Zau ...
    Series series New Frontiers in Education
    Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both sides of support for or against charter schools, everyone was surprised by how difficult it was to assess charter school performance. The first ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • The Art and Science of Teaching

    A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Instruction

    by Robert J. Marzano ...
    Though classroom instructional strategies should clearly be based on sound science and research, knowing when to use them and with whom is more of an art. In The Art and Science of Teaching: A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Instruction, author Robert J. Marzano presents a model for ensuring quality teaching that balances the necessity of research-based data with the equally vital need to ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Motion Leadership in Action

    More Skinny on Becoming Change Savvy

    by Michael Fullan ...
    Success stories from the US and around the world illustrate how educators can use a small number of specific actions to generate momentum for lasting change. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • A Cup of Comfort for Teachers

    Heartwarming stories of people who mentor, motivate, and inspire

    by Colleen Sell ...
    Series series Cup of Comfort
    "It's the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." -Albert EinsteinEvery single day in countless classrooms all around the world, teachers inform young minds-and transform young lives. In this moving collection of true stories, you'll meet more than fifty remarkable people who've made a big difference in a struggling student's life-one hour, one lesson, one ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Wisdom's Workshop

    The Rise of the Modern University

    by James Axtell ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    An essential history of the modern research universityWhen universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom's ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Designing Groupwork

    Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom

    by Elizabeth G. Cohen, Rachel A. Lotan ...
    As teachers today work in ever more challenging contexts, groupwork remains a particularly effective pedagogical strategy. Based on years of research and teaching experience, the new edition of this popular book features significant updates on the successful use of cooperative learning to build equitable classrooms. Designing Groupwork, Third Edition incorporates current research findings with new ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Leading the Modern University

    York University’s Presidents on Continuity and Change, 1974-2014

    Edited by Lorna R. Marsden ...
    Founded in 1959, York University is now the second largest university in Ontario and third largest university in Canada. However, starting in 1970s the success of the university was far from guaranteed.Leading the Modern University documents the challenges and solutions that five successive university presidents (H. Ian Macdonald, Harry Arthurs, Susan Mann, Lorna Marsden, and Mamdouh Shoukri) ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • Authentic Educational Leadership in Schools

    by Dr. Ross H. Millikan ...
    This text seeks to re-establish the place and the importance of a valuesbased, philosophically-underpinned, national educational provision, through which reason and integrity, intellect and morality, caring and sharing, are more highly valued as educational outcomes than are narrow academic achievements only, leading to ways and means for accruing power and material possessions. The text will be ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Good Governance is a Choice

    A Way to Re-create Your Board_the Right Way

    by Randy Quinn, Linda J. Dawson ...
    This book comes with a promise: after reading it, you will never again think of board work the same as before.Good Governance is a Choice is a book about, and for, boards of public and non-profit organizations. Its central focus is on public school boards and the special challenges they face, but the governing model it introduces, Coherent Governance , is applicable to any board of any type ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Transforming Campus Culture

    Frank Aydelotte's Honors Experiment at Swarthmore College

    by Ruth Shoemaker Wood ...
    At a time in American history when football ruled the American campus and fraternities dominated student life, Frank Aydelotte, through his determination to specialize exclusively in initiating an Honors program of study, accomplished a feat virtually unknown in American higher education. That is, he succeeded in shaping one regional, run of the mill, Quaker school - Swarthmore College - into an ... Read more

    $89.09 USD