Police officers, armed security guards, surveillance cameras, and metal detectors are common features of the disturbing landscape at many of the high schools. This title shows that these policies lead schools to prioritize the rules instead of students, so that students' real problems get ignored.
Practical Strategies for Improving Performance and Enhancing Skills for
Provides a practical, highly readable guide to enhancing attention and impulse control, time management and organization skills for all students, with and without learning disabilities. Memorable metaphors, classroom examples, and crystal-clear explanations of brain functioning, will help teachers grasp what executive function is and how it ......
With public colleges and universities facing substantial budget cuts and increased calls for accountability, more institutions now rely on private revenue streams for support. As market-driven policies and behaviors become more commonplace, some cautious critics sound the alarm, while others watching the bottom line cheer. But which perspective ......
From race to speech, from religion to school funding, from discipline to special education, few aspects of education policy have escaped the courtroom over the past fifty years.
How to Facilitate Work Experiences for Youth in Transition
Offers a practical, research-based framework for secondary special education and transition professionals to develop, monitor, and support work experiences necessary for school-to-work transition for youth with disabilities. This book shows how work should and can be more than an afterthought to curriculum.
Large urban school systems have been the weakest link in American education, driving middle-class families into the suburbs while contributing mightily to the racial learning gap.
While he celebrated higher education as the engine of progress in every aspect of American life, George Keller also challenged academia's sacred cows and entrenched practices with provocative ideas designed to induce creative discomfort. Completed shortly before his death in 2007, Higher Education and the New Society caps the career of one of ......
Large urban school systems have been the weakest link in American education, driving middle-class families into the suburbs while contributing mightily to the racial learning gap.
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the latest in more than two decades of federal efforts to raise educational standards and an even longer stream of initiatives to improve education for poor children.
