Product Description: Mission Statement: The mission of this series is to bring issues of diversity and educational risk to the forefront of national attention in order to assist the nation's diverse students at risk of educational failure to achieve academic excellence...read more

Product Description: This book is the first volume in the series Research in Educational Diversity and Excellence. The purpose of the present book is to summarize and discuss recent perspectives, research, and practices related to educational resilience...read more

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Product Description: This book explores the impact of calculators on mathematics instruction in grades K-14. The authors examine underlying theoretical and research information which supports the use of calculators in the mathematics classroom. Chapters examine general issues related to calculator use...read more

Product Description: What can educational leaders and teachers do to assist at-risk students? This volume examines educators' responsibility for students who fail, the dropout issue and school reform; contributors also explore learning differences, technologies available for learning, effective classroom environments, specific methods for improving leadership, training programmes for education professionals and action plans for quality education...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Although this is dated, the research is still relevant today. From series on contemporary educational issues.

Product Description: How can school administrators help provide equitable education for all? Addressing this question, the contributors to this volume argue that the concepts of educational equity and excellence are complementary not contradictory. They examine the administrative role in facilitating equity, in creating a climate of equity in schools, in developing curriculum and programmes that foster equity and in training future teachers and administrators to provide equitable education in effective schools and colleges...read more