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Shaping the Future with Math, Science, and Technology examines how ingenuity, creativity, and teamwork skills are part of an intellectual toolbox associated with math, science, and technology. The book provides new ideas, proven processes, practical tools, and examples useful to educators who want to encourage students to solve problems and express themselves in imaginative ways.

Describes the economic and capital market results of the institution of the single currency, the euro, in Europe after January 2000. Does it foreshadow increased capital market efficiency and labour migration, huge cross-border mergers and the division of the world into currency blocs?

Ethnicity is a highly politicized issue in China. Officially sanctioned social science classifies the majority group, the so-called Han, at the pinnacle of modernization and other groups as "primitives". This book explores how Han in Kunming, regard ethnic minorities and by extension themselves.

This book provides a timely master plan to lead educators through today's difficult times. It charts out a journey that doesn't cost any money and that will afford educators and those they are the closest to with a priceless opportunity to live happy lives even in times of great stress.

Cuba's primary health care system is a well-known and well-hidden jewel of global health care. It has eradicated malaria and polio, and curtailed HIV/AIDS and dengue fever. This book focuses on the successes of Cuba's preventive primary health care system, rather than the deficit of the curative care system.

This book looks at what successful principals do to close the achievement gap and move their schools from one that needs improvement to one that is succeeding for all students. Principals reading this handbook will have at their fingertips detailed descriptions of the behaviors needed to build success.

This study examines the relationship between competition for energy resources and the propensity for conflict in the Caspian region. The book offers findings concerning the impact of energy wealth on the political life and economies of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

This book explores the world of the principal with stories that capture readers' attention and moves them through the daily life of a school leader. The author reveals the working world of the principal in a clear, and sometimes frank, language with the intent to bolster and support newly positioned principals and reignite the leadership fire for those with many years of experience.

This book has been written in the hopes of equipping teachers-in-training-that is, teacher candidates-with the skills needed for action research: a process that leads to focused, effective, and responsive strategies that help students succeed.

This book presents a unique classification and review of various mental health and learning issues. The authors link current education and child and youth mental health reforms to make the case for improving services to address barriers to learning.

Examines the American decision to intervene militarily in three key episodes in American foreign policy - the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama. This book analyzes the complex deliberations and motives behind military intervention in each case.

This book's question-and-answer format, as well as its analysis of court opinions and opinion letters of the United States Department of Education's Family Policy Compliance Office, provide educators with the resource they need to quickly and authoritatively address records issues.

This book analyzes the behavior of chairs and deans through the political, structural, human resources, and symbolic frames. Lessons learned from the negative as well as the positive scenarios are highlighted, enabling deans and chairs to easily adapt them to their own situations.

This book provides everything administrators and teachers need to build service-learning programs that prepare students as engaged citizens committed to equity and justice. Cipolle describes practical strategies for classroom teachers along with the theoretical framework so readers can deftly move beyond the book to a meaningful program for their schools.

This book was written for everyday practitioners aiming to create staffs capable of making their schools sparkle amidst the chaos. Not only does this book describe four essential foundational practices of the foundational leader, it also provides the reader with the specific processes to move each of them from theory to practice.

This book explores some of the unique characteristics of school reform and also focus on the role of poverty in reform including the negative effects of low-income neighborhoods on the youth who reside there, concluding that reducing poverty can lead to more positive academic behavior and success

Explores the similarities in political and constitutional thought between Justice Antonin Scalia and Alexander Hamilton, and views that Hamilton holds the key to understanding Justice Scalia's decisions. This title uses comparisons between the two men to find the underlying judicial philosophy that connects Justice Scalia's manifold decisions.

Based on real experiences of those in the trenches, this book describes a new delivery system of education designed to allow all students to succeed with the help of teachers who are led by their passion to do what is right for students.

This handbook is a comprehensive, step-by-step tool for school leader preparation candidates and school leaders alike in the development of standards-based digital school leader portfolios.

This book provides an informed explanation of Section 504, the IDEA, their regulations, and the cases that they have generated. The book examines the substantive and procedural requirements that Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 504) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) place on educators in non-public schools.

Provides an insider account of a multigenerational working-class Mexican American family in Los Angeles to explain Chicanos' persistent social status despite their citizenship and largely English monolingualism.

This book paints a comprehensive picture of school finance to illuminate issues with the current system and suggest ways to improve that system.

Tracing the developments in Southern and Eastern Europe, which has undergone impressive transitions to democracy, experienced vast social changes, and joined the EU and NATO, this study shows that culture, geographic location, and timing do matter. It is for students of Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, and transitions to democracy.

This book describes the innovative transformation of institutions of higher education (HEIs) across the world in response to the emerging realities of the twenty-first century global knowledge-based economy. It also describes how HEIs are defining many of today's economic realities on a regional level.