Lists requirements for certification and renewal in each of the fifty states

Hoping to impress the new girl in her class while they work together on an archeological dig project, Amelia tries to improve her look by giving herself a make-over and almost loses a friend in the process.

Product Description: The governance of seas and oceans, defined as all forms of social participation in decision-making on the marine environment, is here mainly from a legal perspective view with the Law of the Sea as a determinant. The book presents the main aspects of maritime law and the history of its construction...read more

Lists requirements for certification and renewal in each of the fifty states

Lists requirements for certification and renewal in each of the fifty states

Product Description: In 1812, after a period of considerable victories, Napoleon found himself fighting on two fronts, suffering setback after setback. With his forces in Spain being pushed back, Napoleon launched an invasion of his former ally, Russia, leading the half-million-strong Grande Armée to Moscow and a brutal defeat at the hands of Russian forces and the bitter winter...read more

Organized by state, this annual volume is the most complete and timely single source for authoritative, easy-to-use information about certification requirements for a wide range of education professionals.

Lists requirements for certification and renewal in each of the fifty states

Lists requirements for certification and renewal in each of the fifty states (view table of contents)

Product Description: This text traces the development of special educational provision and goes on to concentrate on some of the key issues relevant to professionals currently working in the field. It looks at the recent drive towards inclusion and the implication this has for schools...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Lists requirements for certification and renewal in each of the fifty states (view table of contents)

Product Description: The 1990s were a period of quite dramatic change for initial teacher education in England and Wales with wave of Government sponsored reforms. The changes introduced were highly controversial as those in higher education who were traditionally responsible for teacher education felt marginalized; many believed that what was at stake in these reforms was the nature of teacher professionalism itself...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Lists requirements for certification and renewal in each of the fifty states (view table of contents)

Product Description: Choice in Schooling is a history of the proposal to fund education through the student, as does the G.I. Bill for veterans, instead of, or in addition to, making direct appropriations to institutions, schools or districts. First proposed by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations in 1776, and endorsed by such leaders as Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, John Stuart Mills, Milton Friedman, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, it is widely used in developed democracies around the world and even among former Iron Curtain nations, including Russia itself...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Assessment in Higher Education - Student Learning, Teaching, Programmes and Institutions is John Heywood's latest contribution to the assessment debate. Building on his previous work it examines not only the assessment of student learning but the assessment of institutions, the programmes they offer, and the teaching they provide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Most Americans believe that local school districts are the only means by which citizens may exercise control over public education. Kathryn McDermott argues to the contrary that existing local institutions are no longer sufficient for achieving either equity or democratic governance. Not only is local control inequitable, it also fails to live up to its reputation for guaranteeing public participation and citizen influence. Drawing upon democratic theory and the results of field research in New Haven, Connecticut, and three suburbs, McDermott contends that our educational system can be made more democratic by centralizing control over funding while decentralizing most authority over schools to the level of schools themselves while enacting public school choice controlled for racial balance.To many people in Connecticut and elsewhere, the tension between equal opportunity for all students and local control of public education seems impossible to resolve. In 1996, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in Sheff v. O'Neill that local control produces unconstitutional segregation of public schools. Nearly all of the state's 169 towns operate their own public schools, and, like the towns they serve, the schools are generally homogeneous with respect to race and socioeconomic class. In the Sheff ruling, the court declared that making school districts coterminous with town lines "is the single most important factor contributing to the present concentration of racial and ethnic minorities in the Hartford public school system." At the same time, the court also acknowledged that the town-based school system "presently furthers the legitimate nonracial interests of permitting considerable local control and accountability in educational matters."In Connecticut and elsewhere, it has often seemed necessary to choose between local control and equity in public education, and local control has almost always won. McDermott argues that rather than seeing local control and equity as conflicting goals, policymakers should regard them as equally important components of democracy in public education. In her view, a truly democratic system of education should both encourage citizen participation in school governance and contribute to the formation and maintenance of a social order in which equality of opportunity prevails over hierarchies of privilege. Centralizing distribution of resources and using controlled choice to end racial isolation would provide greater equality of opportunity, while decentralizing management of schools would expand citizen participation.McDermott's conclusions break new ground in our understanding of local school governance itself and call into question the conventional wisdom about local participation. These findings should interest those who study school governance and reform especially in an urban setting as well as policy makers, administrators, teachers, students, and citizens eager to improve their schools. (view table of contents)

Lists requirements for certification and renewal in each of the fifty states

Product Description: Examines the developing role of key personnel in primary schools in the context of the 1993 Education Act and the Code of Practice on the Identification and Assessment of Special Educational Needs. Governors and headteachers also offer views on resource management and interaction with parents...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Lists requirements for certification and renewal in each of the fifty states