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Since 1990, Teach For America has been building a movement to end educational inequity in America. Now its founder, Wendy Kopp, shares the lessons learned from the experiences of more than 25,000 teachers and alumni who have taught and led schools in low-income...
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PublicAffairs
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2011-01-25
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PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION Demonstrating Institutional Effectiveness In this era of increasing pressure on higher education institutions for accountability, Planning and Assessment in Higher Education is an essential resource for college and university...
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Jossey-Bass
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2011-01-25
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Inspirational stories of engaging, real-life educational experiences Everyone has a personal learning story, a time when they became actively engaged in their own education. Maybe it was an especially challenging teacher, or a uniquely supportive environment, or a...
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Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-01-19
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During the 1990s, the workplace was rediscovered as a rich source of learning. The issue of workplace learning has since received increasing attention from academics and practitioners alike but is still under-researched empirically. This book brings together a range of...
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Springer
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2011-01-19
Collection :
Professional and Practice-based Learning
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This book walks community activists through the rationale for assuming local responsibility for academic performance, outlines steps needed to drive that change, and suggests curricular direction and school policy requirements.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2011-01-18
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Shift happens: Emerging technologies and globalization have resulted in political, social and cultural changes. These changes have a profound impact on all aspects of human life, including education. Yet while society has changed and continues to change, schools are...
Editeur :
Springer
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2011-01-15
Collection :
Explorations of Educational Purpose
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The text explores the concept of innovation, and analyse and compare different dimensions of innovation found in the various case studies; the transfer of innovation and the mechanisms of change; on an innovative online case study database on education innovations that...
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Springer
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2011-01-15
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It is widely recognized that the South African government’s exemplary HIV/AIDS education policy is not making the behaviour-changing impact that it ought. Why is this? What is actually happening in the school classroom? In this book, Jean Baxen makes an important...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Diese Festschrift ehrt Martin Forstner, Professor an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz und zeichnet einige der wesentlichen Initiativen eines grossen Gelehrten und Wegebereiters nach, dessen Forschung und Publikationen für die Translationswissenschaft als...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2011-01-14
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This book is about a small city state’s social experiment with globalization. It examines how Singapore conducts its globalization experiment through the state apparatus of schooling and education policy. The author argues that Singapore engages with globalization by...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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Translation can help improve foreign language teaching and learning – this study shows how. In an increasingly globalised world and in an increasingly multilingual Europe, translation plays an important role. Significant signs of a new revival of translation in language...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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Based on a research project supported by the European Foundation, this book explores how primary and secondary students in four different European countries view theirs and the world’s future. The results indicate that there is a gap between students’ perspectives about...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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The second edition of Effective Grading—the book that has become a classic in the field—provides a proven hands-on guide for evaluating student work and offers an in-depth examination of the link between teaching and grading. Authors Barbara E. Walvoord and Virginia...
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Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-01-13
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Leading for Learning Written by acclaimed school reform advocate Phillip C. Schlechty,Leading for Learning offers educators the framework, tools, and processes they need to transform their schools from bureaucracies into dynamic learning organizations. Schlechty...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-01-11
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Everything you ever need to know about making it as a scientist. Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2011-01-11
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Analyzing Interactions in CSCL: Methodology, Approaches, and Issues deepens the understanding of ways to document and analyze interactions in CSCL and informs the design of the next generation of CSCL tools. It provides researchers with several alternative...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-01-11
Collection :
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series
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Lesson study is a professional development process that teachers engage in to systematically examine their practice, with the goal of becoming more effective. Originating in Japan, lesson study has gained significant momentum in the mathematics education community in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-01-11
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Shaping the College Curriculum focuses on curriculum development as an important decision-making process in colleges and universities. The authors define curriculum as an academic plan developed in a historical, social, and political context. They identify eight...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-01-11
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