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  • Terrorism Inside America's Borders

    by Ashraf Esmail, Lisa A. Eargle, Tharinia Dukes Robinson, George Amedee, Jessica Burke, Connor Chapman, DeMond Shondell Miller, Ori Swed, Andrew P. Davis0, Brandon Hamann1, Nia Nicks3, Brendan Moore4, Syed Adeel Ahmed5, Shatiqua Mosby Wilson6, Shyamal Das7, Kathy Franklin8, Selina Kerr9, Mary Ann Markey0, Julius Trimble1, Komanduri S. Murty2, Compreca Martin3, Tara D. Miller4, Jessica M. Doucet5, Sandra Speer6, Anita D. Bledsoe-Gardner7, Nicola Davis Bivens8, Gregory J. Harris9, Perry Lyle0 ...
    Using the insights provided by criminology, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines, Terrorism Inside America’s Borders delivers a multi-faceted examination of the issues associated with domestic terrorism. Some of the issues explored include the similarities and differences between terrorism and other criminal activities, the roles that social institutions and social processes play in the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Evaluation and Turbulent Times

    Reflections on a Discipline in Disarray

    Edited by Jan-Eric Furubo, Ray C. Rist, Sandra Speer ...
    Series series Comparative Policy Evaluation
    Now more than ever, policy evaluation is an important component in addressing the world's economic crisis. Before it can do so, the discipline must adapt to changing economic and political environments. The contributors address a basic question: What impact do crises have on evaluation and how can evaluation contribute in times of turbulence?Examining the state of evaluation today, the volume's ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Public School Advantage

    Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools

    by Christopher A. Lubienski, Sarah Theule Lubienski ...
    Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Flat World and Education

    How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future

    by Linda Darling-Hammond ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    Linda Darling-Hammond is the 2023 National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) Policy Leader of the YearIn this bestseller and Grawemeyer Award winner, Linda Darling-Hammond offers an eye-opening wake-up call concerning America’s future and vividly illustrates what the United States needs to do in order to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that ensures every child ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform

    by Gérard Bonnet, Mary Canning, Terry J. Crooks, Luis Crouch, Ori Eyal, Eva Forsberg, Martin Gustafsson, Batia P. Horsky, Dan Inbar, Barbara M. Kehm, Stephen T. Kerr, Ulf P. Lundgren, Peter Schrag, Hasan Simsek, Ryo Watanabe, Alison Wolf, Ali Yildirim, Robert W.McMeekin, Adam Nir, Kai-ming Cheng, Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew, Ratna Ghosh, Allan Luke ...
    In Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform, Rotberg brings together examples of current education reforms in sixteen countries, written by "insiders". This book goes beyond myths and stereotypes and describes the difficult trade-offs countries make as they attempt to implement reforms in the context of societal and global change. In some countries, reforms are a response to major ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Smarter Crime Control

    A Guide to a Safer Future for Citizens, Communities, and Politicians

    by Irvin Waller ...
    The U.S. is the world´s biggest jailor and one of the most affluent murderous countries, and yet its citizens pay more taxes to sustain law and order than their European counterparts. Yet, the U.S. has the most data in the world on the use of incarceration and its failure. Its researchers have identified more projects able to prevent violence than the rest of the world put together. Its ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • The Future of the Fifth Child

    An Overview of Global Child Protection Programs and Policy

    by Sid Gardner ...
    The premise of this book is that 400 million childrenone in five children aliveare abused and neglected in ways that could affect their entire lives, and that greater progress in protecting those children is both urgent and possible.The book reviews the long history of child maltreatment from prehistoric times to the present, contrasting statements about precious, innocent children with the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The American Education Policy Landscape

    by Jennifer A. Rippner ...
    In today’s complex educational environment, it’s critical for educators to understand the policy landscape. Research-based and grounded in a non-ideological perspective, The American Education Policy Landscape is an essential guide for educators, graduate students, and policymakers alike. This accessible resource unpacks complex concepts and provides a comprehensive overview of early childhood, K ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The School Board Effect

    Impact of Governing Style on Student Achievement

    by Alexander U. Ikejiaku ...
    Every school board adopts a unique governing style which affects the way the district is managed. This book identifies some of those styles and examines their potential impact on district administration, and ultimately on student achievement. The book also clarifies the role of school boards in unequivocal terms, discusses board-superintendent relations, and offers several recommendations and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Interview Research in Political Science

    Edited by Maria Elayna Mosley ...
    Interviews are a frequent and important part of empirical research in political science, but graduate programs rarely offer discipline-specific training in selecting interviewees, conducting interviews, and using the data thus collected. Interview Research in Political Science addresses this vital need, offering hard-won advice for both graduate students and faculty members. The contributors to ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Pursuing Horizontal Management

    The Politics of Public Sector Coordination

    by B. Guy Peters ...
    Series series Studies in Government and Public Policy
    From the first, specialization and coordination have presented governments with a conundrum: specialized program might be best for delivering one service to the public, but combining such programs for all public services inevitably produces costly redundancies and inefficiencies. In this long-awaited book, Guy Peters brings his expertise and extensive experience to bear on the problem of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Strengthening Coherence between Agriculture and Social Protection to Combat Poverty and Hunger in Africa Diagnostic Tool

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Agriculture and social protection are fundamentally linked in the context of rural livelihoods in Africa. Poor and food-insecure families depend primarily on agriculture and partly on non-farm income and private transfers for their livelihoods, and are the main target of social protection interventions (FAO, 2015). When embedded within a broader rural development framework, stronger coherence ... Read more

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