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  • Economic Evaluation in Education

    Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis

    by Henry M. Levin, Patrick J. McEwan, Clive R. Belfield, A. Brooks Bowden, Robert D. Shand ...
    The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis in education as administrators are being asked to accomplish more with the same or even fewer resources, philanthropists are keen to calculate their "return on investment" in social programs, and the general public is increasingly scrutinizing how resources are allocated to schools and colleges.This text ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities

    Toward Civic Responsibility

    by Angela E. Arzubiaga, Miguel Ceja, Anna K. Chmielewski, Davido Dupree, Jacquelyn Duran, Evellyn Elizondo, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Suzanne Fegley, George Galster, Olivia Golden, Courtney Grzesikowski0, Kris D. Gutierrez1, Larry V. Hedges2, Kathryn Hill3, Mark Hogrebe4, Nathan Jones5, John Logan6, Jill McNew-Birren7, Jerome E. Morris8, Sheri Notaro9, Deirdre Oakley0, Katherine O'Regan1, Stephen W. Raudenbush2, Douglas Ready3, sean f. reardon4, Allison Roda5, Robert J. Sampson6, Amy Ellen Schwartz7, Margaret Beale Spencer8, Leanna Stiefel9, Brian Tinsley0, Anne Velasco1, Miya Tamiko Warner2, Amy Stuart Wells3, Terrenda White4, Brian Williams5, Gail Wolfe6, John T. Yun7, William F. Tate IV9, Walter Allen0, Dr. Shirley Brice Heath1, Carol D. Lee2, Henry M. Levin, Ph.D.3, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson4, Michael A. Olivas5, Ronald Walters6 ...
    Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and former President of the American Educational ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Educating for Humanity

    Rethinking the Purposes of Education

    by Mike Seymour, Henry M. Levin ...
    At a time of profound crises around the world, when social justice, peace, democracy and the environment seem under increasing threat, the promise of "a world for all" seems a viable aspiration for education. Ample evidence from many schools today, and dating back throughout the last century, prove that the purpose of educating young people to develop character, compassion, purpose and commitment ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Privatizing Educational Choice

    Consequences for Parents, Schools, and Public Policy

    by Clive R Belfield, Henry M. Levin ...
    Controversies over the merits of public and private education have never been more prominent than today. This book evaluates public and private schooling, especially in regard to choices families must make for their children.While choice among publics schools is widely advocated today by families and states, public support for private education - including vouchers, tax credits, charter schools, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • The Courage to Teach

    Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

    by Parker J. Palmer ...
    "This book is for teachers who have good days and bad -- and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to harden their hearts, because they love learners, learning, and the teaching life."- Parker J. Palmer [from the Introduction]Teachers choose their vocation for reasons of the heart, because they care deeply about their students ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Health Care in Canada

    A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics

    by Katherine Fierlbeck ...
    Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.Many Canadians point to health care as a source of national pride; others are highly critical of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Courage to Teach

    Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

    by Parker J. Palmer ...
    Wisdom that's been inspiring, motivating, and guiding teachers for two decadesThe Courage to Teach speaks to the joys and pains that teachers of every sort know well. Over the last 20 years, the book has helped countless educators reignite their passion, redirect their practice, and deal with the many pressures that accompany their vital work.Enriched by a new Foreword from Diana Chapman Walsh, ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Poverty and Discrimination

    by Kevin Lang ...
    Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty and discrimination to determine what we actually know and how we know it.Using ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • Restoring the Kinship Worldview

    Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth

    by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), Darcia Narvaez PhD ...
    **28 speeches and reflections from Indigenous leaders around the worldWisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a pathway forward toward sustainable, interconnected futures**Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present and discuss 28 powerful ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Public School Advantage

    Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools

    by Christopher A. Lubienski, Sarah Theule Lubienski ...
    Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Red Brother, White Brother

    A Time for Atonement

    by Dr. Jean Lafrance ...
    Aboriginal families and communities are losing their children to child welfare systems at an alarming rate. Such children have very poor futures to look forward to; rejection, abuse and belonging to nowhere are too often the fate of children in care. Academic failure, poor self-esteem and loss of identity accompany them, often right into life on the streets, experiencing lateral violence, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance

    Edited by Benjamin van Rooij, D. Daniel Sokol ...
    Series series Cambridge Law Handbooks
    Compliance has become key to our contemporary markets, societies, and modes of governance across a variety of public and private domains. While this has stimulated a rich body of empirical and practical expertise on compliance, thus far, there has been no comprehensive understanding of what compliance is or how it influences various fields and sectors. The academic knowledge of compliance has ... Read more

    $48.99 USD