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From Risk to Resiliency
The failure of continuation schools to educate our most vulnerable adolescent populations is slowly removing them from our educational landscapes. Millions of struggling teens, …
Living with the Georgia Shore
The wide sandy beaches, quiet maritime forests, and vast Spartina marshes of the natural Georgia coast create a most spectacular, albeit gentle, Southern beauty. Casual visitors …
A Place Called Brighton
The story of the farm called Brighton began almost 300 years ago during a time of conflict between Native American tribes and encroaching English landowners. The English had …
Leading for Excellence
This book covers what twelve steps school leaders need to take to make for a high-achieving school environment. It encompasses strong leadership, vision and values, high …
Terrorism and Homeland Security
Terrorism and Homeland Security: An Introduction with Applications provides a comprehensive introduction to the problem of terrorism and to its solution, Homeland Security. In …
Academically Adrift
In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor's degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some …
Music Education in America's Public Normal Schools
Capturing the beginning of music participation and engagement in many of the public universities that started as normal schools, this book provides a history of American music …
A Different Kind of Boy
A memoir about raising a gifted child with autism. Daniel Mont's son, Alex, can barely name anyone in his class, but he was one of seven fourth-graders in the USA to ace the …
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Concerns with how students are taught, and whether and how they learn, has become particularly salient in higher education. This is evident in growing awareness of increases in …
Prostate Cancer and the Man You Love
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men after skin cancer. However this cancer is highly curable and most men live for many years after treatment; only eleven …
Novels in Verse for Teens
This valuable guide advises teachers and librarians how to use novels in verse in functional, hands-on ways with teens, including reluctant readers.Novels in verse are popular and …
Lessons to Learn
This is the inside story of the more than 8,000 recent college graduates who have joined Teach for America and committed two years of service to teaching in the nation's most …