The goal of this book is to help address middle and high school classroom teachers', administrators', and parents' immediate need for basic informa...

Practice, praxis, traineeship, internship, or practicum, are all names for the specific arrangements where students from universities engage in rea...

The seemingly endless battle to reform American schools rages onward as we approach the 21st century. Taxpayers seem confused and are not supportin...

This book is designed for graduate students and provides helpful insights on what they can expect in the upcoming years and gives suggestions for h...

This is a collection of personal narratives from scholars, educators, and leaders in higher education focusing on how they developed and used multi...

The subject of this text is vulnerable children, families and interventions within the community school system that work with people who have probl...

Already in common use outside the educational arena, wikis are rapidly moving into education as a form of learner communication and expression, and...

The severe shortage of teachers brought on by WWII meant that teenagers -- some with little or no training, were placed in charge of country school...

A compilation of individual stories based on the author's interviews and correspondence with several depression era teachers. Comic at times, tragi...

Education brings together recent research findings in children's psychopathology with practical implications in educational settings. The text prov...

Violence is a fundamental and contemporary preoccupation of researchers, decision-makers and the general public, but particularly so within the con...

When studying aims and programs for elementary schools historically, we find that knowledge and skills have been among the dominating factors in th...

Writing is a complex and cognitively demanding activity. To be successful, writers need an understanding of the components of a quality test as wel...

This brief, practical guide offers a clear and comprehensive strategy for conceptualizing, approaching, and executing the task of writing a researc...

This brief, practical guide offers a clear and comprehensive strategy for conceptualizing, approaching, and executing the task of writing a researc...

Not only was John Wooden a great basketball coach, he was a master teacher. In fact, he was a great coach because he was a master teacher. What Woo...

Youth mentoring refers to a relationship between youth -- particularly those most at risk of experiencing negative outcomes in adolescence and adul...

Youth Transition in a Globalized Marketplace (YTGM) is based on the experiences of youth in a number of countries. The authors of this study are in...

The National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2), was initiated in 2001 to provide a national picture of the characteristics and experiences of...