Shield of Republic/Sword of Empire

John C Fredriksen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education | nr. 15
• Between the Revolution and the Mexican war, the American republic grew from being a collection of weakly unified states to being a formidable world po... Lees meer

Resource Allocation and Productivity in Education

William Boyd, William Hartman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education | nr. 71
• Resource allocation decisions made by school boards, principals, and teachers are critical for they determine the adequacy and equity of resources act... Lees meer

Moral Education and the Liberal Arts

Michael Mitias

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education
• Education shapes character, particularly through the liberal arts. This collection of essays explores the importance of moral education to the liberal... Lees meer

Partnerships for Improving Schools

Byrd Jones, Robert Maloy

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education
• There are so many ideas in this book that choosing a few to highlight here is as difficult as tasting only three items from a smorgasborg after a fast... Lees meer

Toward Black Undergraduate Student Equality in American Higher Education

Michael Nettles

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education | nr. 25
• This book addresses some of the issues of equity and equality for Black undergraduates in higher education during the latter years of the twentieth ce... Lees meer

Public School Reform in Puerto Rico

Jose Solis

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education | nr. 60
• Puerto Rico's colonial history under the United States has shaped the character of development and education in that territory. In 1898, when the Unit... Lees meer

Making Schools Work for Underachieving Minority Students

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education | nr. 36
• Labeled A Nation at Risk, Americans are urgently seeking reform in their public school systems. While many promising programs are being developed, the... Lees meer

The Condition of English

Avrom Fleishman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education | nr. 72
• Now that the political correctness controversy has cooled, a time for sober reflection on the field of English has arrived. In this insightful overvie... Lees meer

Diversifying Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Serbrena J Sims

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education | nr. 62
• If Black colleges and universities wish to survive in the competitive and economically stressed education environment of the 21st century, they would ... Lees meer

Cognitive Education and Testing

Eugene J Meehan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education
• Eugene J. Meehan's immediate purpose in this study is to explain the essentials of a promising approach to measuring and improving cognitive performan... Lees meer

Academic Freedom and Catholic Higher Education

James Annarelli

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education
• In recent decades, as the question of academic freedom within Catholic higher education has received greater attention, models and interpretations of ... Lees meer

Private Prometheus

Philip Altbach

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education | nr. 77
• Private higher education is perhaps the most rapidly growing segment of postsecondary education worldwide. In this collection, the authors provide a m... Lees meer

Teacher Politics

Maurice R Berube

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education
• In a landmark contribution to the education literature, Berube examines the political activities of the two teachers' unions--the National Education A... Lees meer

Getting What We Ask for

Charles M Payne

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education | nr. 12
• This text offers a scholarly, in-depth analysis of urban education that provides insights into its current failures while suggesting policies and prac... Lees meer

School Law for the Practitioner.

Robert C O'Reilly, Edward T Green

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education
• This volume combines both the broader and narrower aspects of school-related law to provide increased understanding of the legal realities and respons... Lees meer

The Importance of Learning Styles

Ronald R Sims, Serbrenia J Sims

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education | nr. 64
• This book provides a timely review of learning style research. It examines those approaches that purport to promote effective learning. It affirms the... Lees meer

Country School Memories

Robert L Leight, Alice Duffy Rinehart

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education | nr. 74
• Small isolated country schools were the major educational institution in rural America for more than two hundred fifty years until they were replaced ... Lees meer

Southern Cities, Southern Schools

Rick Ginsberg, David Plank

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education | nr. 38
• Historians of urban education have concentrated their attention on the cities of the Northeast, leaving a major gap in the historiography of American ... Lees meer

An Integrated Theory of Moral Development

R Murray Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education | nr. 69
• Components from a variety of existing theories combine with insights from the author's research to create an original theory of moral development. Lees meer

Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs

Robert Barnett, Jacob Blumner

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education | nr. 73
• Writing Centers have traditionally been viewed as marginalized facilities within their institutions. At the same time, faculty in all disciplines have... Lees meer

Getting Down to Business

Selma Cantor Berrol

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education
• This book is a case study of a unique educational institution. For 130 years, the growth and development of Baruch College has paralleled and reflecte... Lees meer

Between Understanding and Misunderstanding

Yasushi Sugiyama

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education
• Although international cultural exchange is an important feature of contemporary international relations, it remains one of the most neglected areas o... Lees meer

The Vision of the Public Junior College, 1900-1940

John H Frye

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education
• Public junior colleges grew rapidly between 1900 and 1940. During that time, nationally prominent leaders maintained that the junior college should pr... Lees meer

The Democratic Tradition and the Evolution of Schooling in Norway

Val Dean Rust

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Education
• In this, the first English-language study of educational reform in Norway, Rust isolates and defines the historical forces that have molded Norwegian ... Lees meer