Product Description: Compared to their more sociable counterparts, shy children are at greater risk for a variety of difficulties in elementary school, including internalizing problems, difficulties with peer relationships, and poorer academic performance...read more

Product Description: In Rethinking Education and Poverty, William G. Tierney brings together scholars from around the world to examine the complex relationship between poverty and education in the twenty-first century. International in scope, this book assembles the best contemporary thinking about how education can mediate class and improve the lives of marginalized individuals...read more

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Product Description: Are socioeconomic inequalities in education declining? Is socioeconomic background becoming less important for people’s occupational class or status? How important is cognitive ability for education and later occupational outcomes? How do countries differ in the importance of socioeconomic background for education and work? Gary N...read more

Product Description: In teacher education, field work in community-based spaces (including foster homes and programs for homeless youth) is frequently contrasted with "traditional" field experiences in classroom settings, where beginning teachers are immediately introduced to teacher-centered models of instruction...read more

Product Description: In recent years there has been growing concern over the pervasive disparities in academic achievement that are highly influenced by ethnicity, class and gender. Specifically, within the neoliberal policy rhetoric, there has been concern over underachievement of working-class young males, specifically white working-class boys...read more

Product Description: Current paradigms of ‘development’ generally serve mobile pastoralist groups poorly: their visibility in policy processes is minimal, and their mobility is constructed by the powerful as a ‘problem’, rather than as a rational livelihood strategy...read more

Product Description: At-Risk Students: Transforming Student Behavior details the warning signs of disturbing behaviors, which are often overlooked by educators and/or misdiagnosed by mental health professionals. Educators will be provided with the tools to: expeditiously identify at-risk characteristics; incorporate policies that support and monitor their achievement; implement research-based strategies designed to create a positive school culture that promotes teaching and learning...read more

Product Description: This book confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education – the nexus between poverty and underachievement. The topic has become a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. Living on the Edge maps and compares a number of competing explanations, critiques inadequate and deficit accounts, and offers a more convincing and useful theory...read more

Product Description: This book confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education - the nexus between poverty and underachievement. The topic has become a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. Living on the Edge maps and compares a number of competing explanations, critiques inadequate and deficit accounts, and offers a more convincing and useful theory...read more

Product Description: Governments, local authorities, school leaders, and teachers all over the world want to improve the educational attainment and participation of all students, and to minimise any systematic differences in outcomes for social and economic groups...read more

Product Description: Education and poverty exist in a highly contested relationship even in the developed world. On the one hand, educational outcomes seem solidly attached to socio-economic status, and on the other, education is often cited as a way out of poverty...read more

Product Description: One of the key challenges facing schools today is that of reducing marginalisation amongst pupils in educational contexts. This timely book provides guidance and illustrative examples of the ways in which primary and secondary schools can include all of their students in the academic and social experiences they provide...read more

Product Description: Designed to be a one-stop-shop to meet the needs of local communities, Children’s Centres represent a revolutionary shift in the way children’s services are delivered to families. Integrated Children’s Centres looks at the way in which Children’s Centre development has built upon the research and experiences of initiatives such as the HeadStart programme in America and the SureStart programme...read more

There is neither a singular point of view, nor any preferred direction for viewing the architecture of Italian-born Massimiliano Fuksas. Always attentive to materials, Fuksas chooses those that, while classic, are rediscovered, used differently, and rendered unconventional in his hands. One such material is the tuff, an ancient volcanic stone discovered by the Etruscans. At the Fuksas-designed Cemetery in Orvieto, Italy, the tuff is cut at 45-degree angles and used "dry," without cement between each block. Zinc can be found in several projects: prelacquered black for his Media Library in Reze, all white for Saint-Exupery College in Noisy-le-Grand, or natural for the large "wave" of housing in Candie Saint-Bernard, a stone's throw from the Bastille. Other examples include the pre-oxidized copper for the Arts Center in Bordeaux and the Cor-ten steel for the great wings of that strange prehistoric animal at the entrance of the Cave Painting Museum in Niaux, in the Pyrenees. The projects shown in this collection of Fuksas's European work represent a diversity of styles, colors, and perspectives always mindful of context, yet unique in their own individual ways.-Aaron Betsky (view table of contents)