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If you are looking for texts that will jumpstart learning and inspire students to love reading, this book provides the superpower you need! The author shows teachers how to use graphic novels to teach 21st-century skills, improve reading comprehension, promote literacy learning, and motivate students to read.

A compilation of journal articles on the female offender written by leading researchers in the field of criminology and women's studies. Reveals the complex worlds females in the criminal justice system must often negotiate.

This new volume in the Social Thinkers series serves as an introduction to the life, work, and ideas of Erving Goffman.

One of eight volumes in the cross-disciplinary and issues-based SAGE Reference Series on Disability, this volume explores ethical, legal, and policy issues of people with disabilities.

Shows how to manage survey data and become better users of statistical and qualitative survey information. This book explains the basic vocabulary of data management and statistics, and demonstrates the principles and logic behind the selection and interpretation of commonly used statistical and qualitative methods to analyze survey data.

Several dramatic changes in international relations at the end of the 20th century seemed to suggest that rivalries (and the conflicts that often result) between states were receding. The question remains therefore - is conflict increasing or decreasing? This title intends to answer that question. It examines roughly 200 strategic rivalries.

In this comprehensive introduction to using statistics in the social sciences, Daniel B Wright describes the most popular statistical techniques, explaining their basic principles and demonstrating their use in a wide range of social research.

A cutting edge practical introduction to online journalism, drawing on over 30 interviews with award-winning online journalists, editors, and producers

This resource offers supportive intervention strategies for counselors and administrators committed to working effectively with bullies and the students they victimize.

Filled with best practice examples, resources, reflections, self-assessments, and implementation ideas, this guide shows school leaders how to improve their school management skills.

This call-to-arms focuses on what must be done to keep the gifted child movement alive and well.

This volume addresses the under representation of culturally diverse and/or economically disadvantaged students in gifted and talented programs.

In over 230 tables and figures, this title offers students, and professional researchers chapters devoted to key subject areas such as elections and political parties, public opinion and voting, the media, the three branches of US government, foreign, military, social and economic policy, and more.

Historic Documents of 2012 presents primary documents relating to internationally important events of 2012, and colorful narratives to put the documents in context.

Based on frequent, mutual feedback from peers, students and administrators, the 2+2 method increases meaningful contact and collaboration between teachers. It also allows for administrator participation in a less threatening context than the traditional performance appraisal, greatly reducing teachers' levels of anxiety and self-doubt, which in turn leads to increased job-satisfaction.

This book helps teachers understand the lives and minds of today's learners, who have grown up surrounded by iPhones, iPads, computers, and other digital forms inorder to thoughtfully and meaningfully use technology to enhance their learning.

This book enables teachers to design mathematics lesson for English language learners. Each chapter offers short but comprehensive research to support the teaching tips featured.

A book which will help teach students how to diagnose, conduct treatment planning, and evaluate client outcomes.

Suitable for courses on Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy, this book presents an experiential approach to understanding and applying theory.

Examines the concerns and processes of standard analytic induction, ethnomethodology and symbolic interaction in terms of cutting-edge issues for contemporary qualitative research.

A step-by-step approach to turning a research idea into a proposal worthy of funding, demystifying the process as a result.

This Handbook provides an innovative, interdisciplinary perspective on theory, research and methodology on dynamic processes in parent-child relations. It focuses on cognitive, behavioural and relational processes that govern immediate parent-child interactions and long-term relationships.

A practical guide to succeeding both as a journalist and as a new business in this fast-moving industry.

Behavior and Classroom Management in the Multicultural Classroom provides general and special education teachers with the knowledge, skills, and strategies to make the proactive, active, and reactive interventions necessary to create a positive classroom environment in which all students can learn.

This user-friendly guide offers practical details on gathering critical information, including tips on what to include, sources, and timelines.

The book describes the skills needed for success in moving from being a student to becoming an academic or professional social scientist.

Drawing on insights of disability scholars around the world and the advice of an international editorial board, this book engages the reader in the critical issues and debates framing disability studies and places them in an historical and cultural context. It summarizes the discourse ranging across continents and traditional academic disciplines.

The essays in this book are examples of current scholarship on four aspects of organizaitonal failure: Organizational, Political, Cognitive, and Structural, written by twenty-four diverse academic authors.

Providing an empirical assessment of male adolescent murderers and systematic case presentations of several juvenile homicide offenders, Young Killers addresses psychological assessment, treatment issues and prevention strategies aimed at reducing the incidence of juvenile homicide.

This guidebook offers a practical overview for collecting data, understanding the underlying factors of challenging behaviors, and using evidence-based interventions to correct common classroom problems.