Product Description: The most memorable gift you can give to a new graduate is sound advice for a successful life.In his second book, author Clark Gaither gives his best advice in The Graduate’s Handbook, highlighting the hardest easy lessons he’s ever learned...read more

Reframing Decision Making in Education begins by describing the current status of American schools and concludes with a description of the organizational structure, leadership, and decision making practices necessary to make our schools operate in a manner congruent with those democratic principles we espouse as a country.

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Product Description: This book is dedicated to young men that are struggling to find their true identity. Never think you are alone on this journey and doing it all by yourself. We all have our struggles, battles, and our wars that challenge us every day...read more

Product Description: Creative Funding For Our Schools takes a fresh look at the ever growing problem of school funding. It's written in a clear and concise manner that offers just enough foundation for conversations to be built upon. In order to rescue a fund stressed educational system and ensure education opportunities for current and future generations, creative funding needs to be explored...read more

Product Description: Knowledge and skills for helping adolescents with inner conflict resolution, affective communication, and self-managing behavior alternatives, with faith-based options. Empowering Teens to Self-Manage in High Risk Situations is for parents, teachers, after school programs, church youth facilitators, foster families, residential care home environments and anyone who cares about a teen and wants to help...read more

Product Description: A provocative collection of papers containing comprehensive reviews of previous research, teaching techniques, and pointers for direction of future study. Provides both a comprehensive assessment of the latest research on mathematical problem solving, with special emphasis on its teaching, and an attempt to increase communication across the active disciplines in this area...read more

Product Description: Elsa è una ragazza olandese cresciuta in circostanze particolari, con genitori divorziati e nella cui vita il sesso è entrato da protagonista assoluto. Il padre conduce una vita sregolata di cui la fa partecipe. La madre è una donna ingenua non in grado di proteggerla...read more

The failure of alternative and continuation schools to educate our most vulnerable adolescent populations is slowly eliminating them from our educational landscapes. Millions of struggling teens, lacking options, are being set adrift without the necessary capabilities and without hope. But recent research can provide avenues of change to lead these student populations to academic achievement. Equipping educators with both the theoretical framework and a range of practical applications for program and classroom improvements, Rethinking Alternative Schools provides a look into successful alternative education that will elevate academic strugglers to academic successes.

Product Description: The Master of Architecture Class of '67 of the Harvard Graduate School of Design takes a critical look at their educational experience and compares it to the architecture program of today.

Product Description: This book provides a step-by-step guide to planning educational programs to support students for success. It is designed to be used by school counselors, staff on grant-funded programs, School Improvement Teams, and community agencies that serve students.