Product Description: This concise monograph addresses the expanding field of family involvement to out of school time (Ost). Ost may be defined as time outside of state required time limits for compulsory school attendance but time in which students are engaged in planned academic or enrichment activities...read more

Product Description: The work of school, family and community partnerships is complex and messy and demands a thoughtful and deep investigation. Currently, parent and community involvement does not draw on school reform and educational change literature and conversely the school change literature often ignores the crucial role that communities play in educational reform...read more

Product Description: In Culture, Relevance, and Schooling: Exploring Uncommon Ground, Lisa Scherff, Karen Spector, and the contributing authors conceive of culturally relevant and critically minded pedagogies in terms of opening up new spatial, discursive, and/or embodied learning terrains...read more

UNSUSTAINABLE frames the problem of cost and effectiveness in AmericaOs public schooling system, and provides a strategy to address it. It argues something that many education professionals and policy makers have come to believe but rarely mention: That this countryOs system of K-12 schooling is not sustainable and is becoming a poorer value each year that goes by. It argues for improving the cost and effectiveness of public schooling through a strategy of innovation that targets productivity. Addressing the question how to do this, the book provides policy recommendations to the state, district, and federal levels. In a final chapter it outlines uncommon strategies for overcoming some of the most difficult political, practical, and structural roadblocks to improvement.

Product Description: Involving Hard-to-Reach Parents: Creating Family/School Partnerships presents a comprehensive strategy for reaching out to help the parents to get involved in the education of their children. This book describes, in practical terms, ways to develop and establish collaborative relationships with parents, especially those that are underserved...read more

Product Description: Involving Hard-to-Reach Parents: Creating Family/School Partnerships presents a comprehensive strategy for reaching out to help the parents to get involved in the education of their children. This book describes, in practical terms, ways to develop and establish collaborative relationships with parents, especially those that are underserved...read more

Product Description: Promising Practices to Support Family Involvement in Schools is a must-have volume for every contemporary educator. This monograph provides a broad array of exciting research-supported practices to reform schools for the benefit of students, teachers, administrators, families and their communities...read more

Product Description: This second edition to Hidden Dangers to Kid’s Learning: Parent Guide to Cope with Educational Roadblocks gives more insight into ways parents can understand and help their academically struggling child. Parents and their children can be empowered to recognize the perils and the pitfalls of our current educational crisis and take responsibility and control of their education before it is too late...read more

Product Description: "MegaSkills is a remarkable achievement . . . what it means is that parents across the country are willing to stand' shoulder to shoulder with teachers in ensuring that our children have the best possible education." - Don Cameron, former Executive Director, National Education Association The classic guide to childhood achievement, taught in more than 4,000 schools...read more

Product Description: NOTE: Used books, rentals, and purchases made outside of Pearson If purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson, the access codes for the Enhanced Pearson eText may not be included, may be incorrect, or may be previously redeemed...read more

Product Description: For freshman/sophomore-level courses in music appreciation. Masterworks, Portfolio Edition is a price-friendly alternative to traditional music appreciation texts. Consisting of a textbook and a free music compact disk included with every text, Masterworks, Portfolio Edition is designed to introduce students to the most important music of the Western tradition, classical and popular and provide the student with the greatest textbook value at the lowest price available...read more

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is the single most pressing problem facing any business. This text aims to provide business decision-makers with straightforward advice and information on how to use the CRM software and the Internet to manage customer relationships. It covers the evolution of CRM from old-school sales management techniques to current practices, current CRM companies and clear explanations of what each has to offer.

Product Description: OPEN IT. DISCOVER a resource-rich book that explores wide and deep below the surface of successful homeschooling. DISCOVER insights that unlock forever the clues to how children learn naturally through everyday family life. NOT a compilation of facts and figures, NOT a set of steps, and NOT EVEN an argument for homeschooling...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is the single most pressing problem facing any business. This text aims to provide business decision-makers with straightforward advice and information on how to use the CRM software and the Internet to manage customer relationships...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

On a hot summer day a young girl has a fantastic dream about her horse Haygirl, who is about to give birth.

Analyzes the variety of reactions felt by different groups of Americans during a period of economic development and social conflict