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The scope of this book embraces a dynamic discussion of the value of traditional public education in the US compared with the free market of schooling expressed by privatization/choice education.

Creating Calm Classrooms focuses exclusively on how to make any teacher an effective classroom manager and teacher.

Experiencing Teacher Leadership is unique from most other books about teacher leadership because the focus is on the teachers and their experiences, good and bad, as they transition from classroom teacher into a position of leadership in their school.

Traditional public education in the US is under attack. This book details the effects of this assault by the proponents of free market schooling and uses data-based research to fend off the attack.

This is a great resource for teachers and administrators to communicate more effectively.

This book for teachers and parents makes an important case for the need for developing moral behavior in young children. It offers effective tools for teaching children to weigh decisions in the face of potential consequences, examine rationales for their choices, study the effects of their choices on others.

School districts across the country must ask their voters to approve tax increases for additional school funding. While preparing for these elections is a time-consuming and daunting task, this book provides a step-by-step approach that is comprehensive and strategic.

This book illuminates methods for drawing upon young adult literature to facilitate students' social action.

This book provides teachers with the tools to capture teachable opportunities as literacy moments: brief, authentic, joyful encounters with texts in all forms. Here, teachers learn to nurture joyful readers by infusing their classrooms' daily lives with authentic literacy moments every day.

This nationally recognized school finance expert has teamed up with a CHOICE award winning author to write a comprehensive book on managing school financial resources to increase student performance.

This book provides a clear set of best practices for the dissertation or thesis chairperson. Unlike many books on the market today intended for students writing dissertations and theses, this text is for the faculty member guiding and coaching the student through the process.

The book describes why and how public and private schools can procure zero energy sustainable schools using on-site solar energy. The reasons to take this path are that solar schools can be built at conventional costs, will be less costly to operate, and can achieve zero carbon emissions in response to climate change.

Feminist Research in Practice is a supplementary text in sociology for undergraduate and graduate courses in feminist research methods, sociology research methods, and women in sociology.

This book is the longest-standing and best-selling IR theory text on the market, popular for the authors' clear and readable explanations of the various IR world views. Newer editions identify separate interpretive understandings-positivism, feminism, and those influenced by phenomenology-post-modernism, critical theory, and constructivism.

This book introduces the concept of "reflective discipline" as an approach to address the problem of racial disparity.

This book exposes the truths regarding education and economics so that every individual can understand the negative ramifications of implementing policies and practices based on educational and economic falsehoods.

This book shows how the notion of civil disobedience has evolved.

This book offers the first full account of Continental contributions to the philosophy of language. It includes coverage of a range of key figures including Heidegger, Gadamer, Blanchot and Kristeva and is designed to engage advanced students with a range of literary references and case studies.

Drawing on the voices and experiences of community-based peace leaders around the world, this book envisions a new way of working together as a truly local and global peacebuilding field.

This book explains the importance of embodiment in understanding the function of race. With chapters by expert contributors and coverage of the most recent thinking in philosophy of race, the book is ideal for upper-level students in Phenomenology, Philosophy of Race and Critical Race Theory.

Neuroscientists are discovering the Chemistry of Culture by revealing the neurological links between our brain and our relationships. This book brings that brain research out of the lab and into schools by connecting it to highly effective culture-building strategies.

This book includes 180 creatively designed screen-free activities teachers can implement to maximize authentic hands-on learning in their classroom. Chapter topics include promoting peace by empowering students to handle conflict through kindness, literacy centers, STEM challenges, and ways to build connections beyond the classroom door.

Mentoring programs strengthen faculty relationships within their school community while increasing teachers' motivation and drive to remain in the profession. If teachers are appreciated, supported, and intrinsically motivated, they will want to be in schools, and they will remain.

This book engages readers with the edited texts of the required 15 U.S. Supreme Court cases necessary to prepare for the AP Politics and Government exam. Guidance is provided to assist with vocabulary, complex legal analysis, reading questions, and extension possibilities to promote thinking about the application of the cases in new settings.

This book focuses on assigned reading events in middle grade social studies courses and the 14 actions proficient readers take before, during, and after reading to comprehend assigned course texts including textbook chapters, book chapters, passages, and articles.

Artificial Intelligence, Mixed Reality, and the Redefinition of the Classroom highlights new interpretations, understandings, and emerging technologies that radically remake traditional educational models, structures, and systems, and upend how faculty teach, and students learn.

Market-Based Health Care will define for students the challenges, arguments and politics behind the concept of consumer driven health care

Local Tax Policy: A Primer provides the definitive discussion of how local governments raise revenue. The book addresses the fundamental influences on local tax and revenue policy including interjurisdictional competition, the politics of anti-taxation, and the relationships with state and federal governments.

This book explores some of the challenges that libraries and librarians face due to diversity and inclusion issues among library staff, as well as the patrons that they serve. Its goal is to increase awareness of and sensitivity to the social, cultural, and educational needs of everyone involved.

Written for beginning library science students, this book introduces the theory and practice of organizing library collections in a clear, straightforward, and understandable way. It explains why and how libraries organize their collections, and how theory and practice work together to help library users.