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Showing aspiring science writers how to achieve the balance between creating engaging, clear stories whilst dealing with complex issues and research methods, this book features a host of stories including Q&As, blog posts and prize-winning pieces.

Using his experience as both an arts critic and an editor, McLeese guides readers through the process of critiquing and presenting an engaging argument.

Shows readers the many ways throughout American history in which environmental concerns have intersected with issues of energy production and consumption, government regulation, private property rights, economic growth, and lifestyle choices.

Formerly a SkyLight publicationThis step-by-step classic embeds the teaching of critical thinking within the cooperative learning setting, explicitly linking the strategies that best support learning.

Women's participation in the US is shaped by the changing landscape of the country's cultural history. Exploring the political socialization of women, the authors give students a powerful way to understand the gender gap in political attitudes, patterns of women's political participation, and women as members of the political elite.

This book offers practical strategies for integrating 40 of the most effective applications-or apps-for the iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone to cultivate 21st century fluencies.

This collection features a tapestry of critical information for teachers implementing differentiation. Includes standards-based lesson- and unit-planning templates, graphic organizers, and brain-based research.

This collection showcases key chapters fromcritically acclaimed Corwin publications written by renowned authors. Essentialtopics include IEPs, co-teaching, effective teaching practices, accommodations,and home-school partnerships.

This how-to manual for achieving excellence despite budget cuts provides a school improvement action plan and shows how to target resources to implement that plan.

A guide for students who are working on improving their counseling skills. Designed as a companion to "The Essential Counselor" and its accompanying DVD of professionally demonstrated skills, it works directly with the student, offering a discussion of each skill set along with examples and practice exercises.

This fieldbook's multidimensional approach to raising student achievement offers strategies for aligning curriculum, instruction, and assessment to state and Common Core State Standards.

Dealing with the politics surrounding smoking in the US, this third edition has been updated to include coverage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.

This accessible and timely title illustrates the history, traditions, organization, dynamics and personalities of the Supreme Court and in its fifth edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate coverage of signficicant new cases and recent changes on the bench.

Offering unique insight into the American electorate, this important new work explores for the first time the trends in longitudinal variables asked in the national Election Day exit polls from their beginning in 1972 to the present, for novice and expert researchers alike.

A comprehensive reader composed of landmark selections, guided by the insight that to understand contemporary Russia, students need to know that there are strongly competing interpretations of Russian politics past and present

The casebook helps students gain a better understanding of nonprofit management by providing 28 contemporary cases from around the world, illustrating the complexity of nonprofit management in a variety of different sectors.

Best-selling author Alan M. Blankstein shares the results of his research with top educational experts and describes a five-step process of finding and scaling excellent practices within learning communities.

Best-selling author Marcia L. Tate brings her trademark "dendrite-growing" teaching strategies to this practitioner-friendly collection of brain-compatible methods for engaging K-12 students in social studies.

This volume examines adoption as a way of understanding the practices and ideology of kinship and family more generally. It focuses primarily on adoption practices in the US but will also use examples of adoption and fostering across cultures to put those American adoption practices into a comparative context.

Veteran school board member Richard E. Mayer's humorous approach to administrator-board relations presents negative behavior scenarios and analyses, offers alternatives, and provides win-win solutions.

Marilyn Gittell was a renowned scholar and social activist. This book highlights Professor Gittell's writings on community organizations, citizen participation, urban politics, the politics of education, and gender.

Focussing on online research, this text shows readers how to access and interpret public health data.

A concise, quick-reference guide to key concepts in business ethics

Part of the "SAGE Series on Green Society", this seventh volume explores the environmental movement's proliferation in the field of education, from elementary school classroom efforts to the university curriculum to building sustainable campuses. It focuses on the critical role of education in building a sustainable future.

Discover how inquiry leads to problem-solving and learn specific steps for formative assessment that informs instruction of 21st century skills such as critical thinking and collaboration.

This helpful guide outlines direct, clear, and practical strategies for simultaneously implementing DI and RTI. Included are in-class assessment strategies, sample lessons, and troubleshooting tips.

This practical guide will help teachers grow their leadership skills, optimize student learning, and enhance the profession. Provides 16 compelling case studies that cover a broad range of leadership experiences.

Award-winning author Jim Knight outlines strategies for becoming an Impact School through targeted, consistent professional learning that is done with teachers, not to teachers.

Futurist David Houle asserts that we already have the information and capabilities to make the necessary changes, and challenges us to take action now.