Language skills, study skills, argument skills and legal knowledge are vital to every law student, professional lawyer and academic. Learning Legal Skills and Reasoning discusses the main sources of English law and explains how to work with legal texts in order to construct credible legal arguments which can be applied in coursework, exams or presentations. Learning Legal Skills and Reasoning Discusses how to find and understand sources of both domestic and European Union Law Develops effective disciplined study techniques, including referencing, general reading, writing and oral skills and explains how to make good use of the university print and e-library Contains chapters on writing law essays, problem questions and examinations, and on oral skills including presentations and mediation skills Packed full of practical examples and diagrams across the range of legal skills from language and research skills to mooting and negotiation, this textbook will be invaluable to law students seeking to acquire a range of discreet legal skills in order to use them together to produce competent assessed work.

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Product Description: "Opposing Viewpoints: High School Alternative Programs: Opposing Viewpoints is the leading source for libraries and classrooms in need of current-issue materials. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected sources and publications"--

Product Description: The late Theodore Sizer's vision for a truly democratic public high school system Our current high schools are ill-designed and inefficient. We have inherited a program of studies that in its overall structure has not changed in over a century...read more

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Product Description: This volume focuses on family and community connections with education during the high school years. In comparison to the wealth of attention that has been focused on involving parents with schools during the early childhood and elementary school years, less attention has been directed to parents of high school students and fewer educational programs have been developed to forge connections between family, community, students, and educators at the high school level...read more

Product Description: Making the Most of High School Success Secrets for Freshmen offers advice and practical strategies for middle school and freshmen in high school students. The book infuses anecdotes from real students about how to navigate the choppy waters of adolescence with humor and real-world instruction for how to get the most out of high school and beyond...read more

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Originally published in 1984, this book has become a classic in the field of education reform. The message in HORACE'S COMPROMISE is even more relevant today, as it presents a revealing and often troubling picture of the current school environment, as seen from both the teachers' and the students' points of view.

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Reviews over 140 private secondary schools nationwide

The third book in a trilogy concerned with educational change offers a comprehensive model for desperately needed reform in America's secondary schools, envisioning the educational system of the future

An educational expert offers a proposal for the restructuring of America's high schools that respects old traditions, yet moves forward to prepare adolescents for the future

A thorough, unique guide includes detailed reviews of the best 140 private secondary schools nationwide, with comments from students themselves, and covers admissions, testing, financing, and selecting the right school. Original.

Product Description: Parnell proposes ways that community, technical, and junior colleges and local high schools can work together on behalf of the majority of high school students who may not earn a postsecondary degree. The work introduces a four-year program of instruction that integrates secondary and postsecondary education through the 2+2 tech prep/associate degree program...read more

Product Description: This volume reports on the policy-based dimensions, or policy elements, of three successful high schools. The nature and function of these policy elements and the relationship among them constitute what the author terms the policy environment.

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Product Description: An examination of the ego identity of "at-risk" high school adolescents in order to determine the role of schooling in their lives. The author asked a number of high school students to tape record dialogues between themselves and their peers, to see how these students viewed their predicament...read more