Author: Nel Noddings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: teach, schools, lessons, critical
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2006-05-08
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0521851882
ISBN-13: 9780521851886

How can schools prepare students for real life? What should students learn in high school that is rarely addressed today? Critical Lessons recommends sharing highly controversial issues with high school students, including "hot" questions on war, gender, advertising, and religion.

Author: James Learmonth
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: schools, inspection
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-01-26
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0415227844
ISBN-13: 9780415227841

This text traces the development of different forms of inspection. It draws on a range of sources such as rigorous and informed research and inspection evidence, writing by key figures, teachers’ own experiences, newspaper headlines and other comments, whilst remaining jargon-free. This topical book includes summary questions and other signposts for the reader, as well as a fully annotated bibliography. It also pays attention to other types of school self-evaluation. James Learmouth explores the impact of inspection on schools in difficulties, and outlines the ways in which research and

Author: Frederick Anderegg
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: colleges, schools, trigonometry
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $19.75
ISBN-10: 1110623550
ISBN-13: 9781110623556

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Author: Sally Beveridge
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: schools, needs, educational, special
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 0415202930
ISBN-13: 9780415202930

Special Educational Needs in Schools, 2 Ed. provides a concise but comprehensive overview of key issues in provision for children with special needs in schools, emphasising the role of the mainstream classroom teacher. This second edition looks at the numerous changes in special educational policy and practice that have taken place in the past five years.

Author: J.T. Glover
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass,
Keywords: book, schools, mathematics, vedic
Number of Pages: 133
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 8120813189
ISBN-13: 9788120813182

Vedic Mathematics for Schools offers a fresh and easy approach to learning mathematics. The system was reconstructed from ancient Vedic sources by the late Bharati Krishna Tirthaji earlier this century and is based on a small collection of sutras. Book 1 of the series is intended for primary schools in which many of the fundamental concepts of mathmatics are introduced.

Author: Lisa Easterling
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Keywords: community, global, schools
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2007-06
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 1403494096
ISBN-13: 9781403494092

Through stunning photographs and simple text, books in this series introduce children to elements of our global community. In this title, children learn about schools around the world, including how they are alike, how they are different, special types of schools, and why schools are important.

Author: Paul Clarke
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: difficulty, schools, improving
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2005-06-15
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0826464742
ISBN-13: 9780826464743

Part of the Improving Schools series. To be published with several other titles in this series in April 2005. For the last few years there has been wave after wave of reform almed at improving the lot of the schools struggling at the bottom of the ladder of performance, and despite what can be interpreted as best intentions the problem persists. As a social problem it draws down significant sums of public money, it exercises many talented people, and yet, time after time we find that three, four, maybe five years down the road after extended efforts the impact of the work diffuses and the chal