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  • Sound School Finance for Educational Excellence

    by Stephen V. Coffin, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    Sound school finance is integral to the provision of a quality education. Indeed, a school district’s budget is the financial representation of its educational plan. Thus, a clarion alert for all teachers: “if it’s not in your budget, it won’t be in your classroom.” However, sound school finance is increasingly challenging in an era of scarce resources. This book provides an in-depth understanding ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Keeping School Children Safe and Alive

    Strategies to Stop Bullying and Prevent Suicide

    by Phyllis E. Gillians, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    To raise awareness of all members of the community - children, parents and school staff about the harm that bullying causes and how children & young people can be protected, including solutions to the problem of rising incidents of bullying and cyber bullying in connection with the use of social networks.This book will improve strategies and responses to incidences of bullying that will address ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Homeschooling in Full View

    A Reader

    Edited by Bruce S. Cooper ...
    This book is a reader that describes, discusses and analyzes homeschooling from an array of different and international perspectives. We portray the energy of this movement, looking at the history of “education writ large” in a larger social, political and religious context. Like most movements in education, this one is both a reaction to the problems and inadequacies of existing schools, and a ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Screwed-Up School Reform

    Fixing America’s Broken Promise

    by Richard G. Shear, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    The unspoken American promise is that each generation will lead a better, more successful life than the previous one. In earlier times, it was an education that provided the next generations a better life. For today’s children, though, decades of failed school reform have left a generation wondering if this promise has been broken. Despite policies, programs, and resources, American education does ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Education is Special for Everyone

    How Schools can Best Serve all Students

    by Janet Mulvey, Kathryn Accurso, Karen Gagliardi, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    Reform in education has focused mainly on development of new programs and procedures to increase the achievement of the student in the classroom. Teacher evaluations are now based on how students perform in their classrooms on yearly standardized tests. The advent of integrating students with special needs into the regular classroom has brought both benefits and concerns for average and above ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Understanding the Power and Politics of Public Education

    Implementing Policies to Achieve Equal Opportunity for All

    by Janet Mulvey, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    Understanding the Power and Politics of Public Education researches the history and trends of educating the populace in the United States. Demographic changes and socio-economic diversity have altered the needs for traditional approaches. Policy makers are implored to become familiar with proven educational research to implement policies that service the needs of all youth.Public schools now ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Why School Leaders Need Vision

    Managing Scarcity, Mandates, and Conflicting Goals for Educational Quality

    by Carlos R. McCray, Stephen V. Coffin, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    The concept of “visionary” leadership is defined and applied in this book, as “supervision in schools” requires a level of “SUPER VISION” that can be best developed through quality leadership, mentoring -- and mutual ideas, and support -- for adding more value to the school. This book shows just how vision is important and useful in all schools and districts.Time has thus come to find, build, and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • News Literacy

    Helping Students and Teachers Decode Fake News

    by Robert W. Janke, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    Our society faces international challenges from cyber attacks and dissemination of fake news with a goal to destabilize our society. Fake news can be used as a weapon with destructive effects as powerful as any military attack. Fake news can spread as fast as a wildfire carried on the winds of social media. Students and all citizens need to be prepared and informed of ways to quickly understand ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Gravissimum Educationis

    Golden Opportunities in American Catholic Education 50 Years after Vatican II

    by Gerald M. Cattaro, Charles J. Russo, Bruce S. Cooper, John J. Convey, Sister John Mary Fleming, Jordan Gadd, Michael J. Garanzini, Regina M. Haney, Shane P. Martin0, Dale McDonald1, Karen M. Ristau2, Ming Zhu3 ...
    Gravissimus Educationis: Golden Opportunities in American Catholic Education 50 Years after Vatican II reviews the development of American Catholic schools since the promulgation of Gravissimus Educationis, the only document on education produced by the Ecumenical Council known as Vatican II. This document literally translated as “The Importance of Education,” addresses how extremely vital ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Moving from Teacher Isolation to Collaboration

    Enhancing Professionalism and School Quality

    by Sharon Conley, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    Teaching embodies many roles -- in the classroom through teacher-student interactions, and beyond the classroom through teacher-adult interactions. This book explains and demonstrates how collaboration and teamwork can help enhance professionalism and school quality by overcoming teachers' isolation in the classroom, in the school, and in their work. The contributing authors address: historic ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Fixing Truancy Now

    Inviting Students Back to Class

    by Jonathan Shute, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    Truancy is a complex issue that continues to plague schools, and many blame truancy problems on students, parents, and socioeconomic factors. However, truancy is more than juvenile delinquents skipping school to have fun or be with friends.In Fixing Truancy Now: Inviting Students Back to Class, author Bruce S. Cooperposits that truancy is an indication that school curricula and pedagogy are not ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Mentoring for School Quality

    How Educators Can Be More Professional and Effective

    by Carlos R. McCray, Bruce S. Cooper ...
    Making Mentoring Work should help educators to mentor or to be mentored effectively in our schools. We all have had mentors, those key adults from family, work, or schools who have assisted us in learning and becoming good adults, skilled and able professionals, and contributing member of community and society. Although it’s not easy, it does occur, is doable, and this book seeks to help everyone ... Read more

    $29.19 USD