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Hybrid Homeschooling

A Guide to the Future of Education

by Michael Q. McShane ...

All across the country, in traditional public, public charter, and private schools, entrepreneurial educators are experimenting with the school day and school week. Hybrid Homeschools have students attend traditional classes in a brick-and-mortar school for some part of the week and homeschool for the rest of the week. Some do two days at home and three days at school, others the inverse, and ... Read more

$28.39 USD

All across the country, in traditional public, public charter, and private schools, entrepreneurial educators are experimenting with the school day and school week. Hybrid Homeschools have students attend traditional classes in a brick-and-mortar school for some part of the week and homeschool for the rest of the week. Some do two days at home and three days at school, others the inverse, and
... Read more
Understanding Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

by Marilyn D. McShane, Michael Cavanaugh ...

This book provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge look at the problems that impact the way we conduct intervention and treatment for youth in crisis today—an indispensable resource for practitioners, students, researchers, policymakers, and faculty working in the area of juvenile justice.Understanding Juvenile Justice and Delinquency provides a concise overview of the most compelling issues in ... Read more

$38.09 USD

This book provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge look at the problems that impact the way we conduct intervention and treatment for youth in crisis today—an indispensable resource for practitioners, students, researchers, policymakers, and faculty working in the area of juvenile justice.Understanding Juvenile Justice and Delinquency provides a concise overview of the most compelling issues in
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Getting Education Right

A Conservative Vision for Improving Early Childhood, K12, and College

by Frederick M. Hess, Michael Q. McShane ...

In Getting Education Right, Rick Hess and Mike McShane argue that America has too long suffered from the absence of a robust, coherent, and principled conservative vision for educational improvement. The book both diagnoses a problem and offers a solution. The problem? The right has too narrowly focused on school choice, campus speech, and shrinking Washington’s footprint, while the left has ... Read more

$32.39 USD

In Getting Education Right, Rick Hess and Mike McShane argue that America has too long suffered from the absence of a robust, coherent, and principled conservative vision for educational improvement. The book both diagnoses a problem and offers a solution. The problem? The right has too narrowly focused on school choice, campus speech, and shrinking Washington’s footprint, while the left has
... Read more
Common Core Meets Education Reform

What It All Means for Politics, Policy, and the Future of Schooling

by Frederick M. Hess, Michael Q. McShane ...

How can the Common Core complement and not conflict with school improvement efforts already at work across the United States? How can it be seamlessly integrated into accountability systems, teacher preparation and development, charter schools, and educational technology? This timely volume brings together prominent scholars and policy analysts to examine the pressing issues that will mark Common ... Read more

$31.49 USD

How can the Common Core complement and not conflict with school improvement efforts already at work across the United States? How can it be seamlessly integrated into accountability systems, teacher preparation and development, charter schools, and educational technology? This timely volume brings together prominent scholars and policy analysts to examine the pressing issues that will mark Common
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Edge of Battle

A Novel

by Dale Brown ...

Narrated by Michael McShane ...

Unabridged

14 hours 29 min

Jason Richter and his high-tech unit Task Force TALON are charged with securing the Mexican border, where a terrorist band has been operating with impunity and enflaming the passions of the population. ... Read more

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Jason Richter and his high-tech unit Task Force TALON are charged with securing the Mexican border, where a terrorist band has been operating with impunity and enflaming the passions of the population.
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Education Reform in the Obama Era

The Second Term and the 2016 Election

by Robert Maranto, Evan Rhinesmith, MICHAEL Q. MCSHANE ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book offers a sophisticated overview of President Obama’s education agenda, exploring how and why education policy became national and ultimately presidential over the past seven decades. The authors argue that the Obama education agenda, though more ambitious, is broadly in line with those of recent presidencies, reflecting elite views that since substantial increases in spending have failed ... Read more

$49.49 USD

This book offers a sophisticated overview of President Obama’s education agenda, exploring how and why education policy became national and ultimately presidential over the past seven decades. The authors argue that the Obama education agenda, though more ambitious, is broadly in line with those of recent presidencies, reflecting elite views that since substantial increases in spending have failed
... Read more
Tuberculosis

Laboratory Diagnosis and Treatment Strategies

by Andrew Ramsay, Clare Ling, Leonor Amaral, Leonid Heifits, Ajit Lalvani, Marc Lipman, Pablo Bifani, Ruth McNerney, Dick van Soolingen, Mike Barer, Isobel Honeyborne, Simon Waddell, Gerry Davies, Paul van Helden, Stephen Gillespie, Helen McShane, Michael Hoelscher, M Boeree, Geoff Coxon ...

Series series Advances in Molecular and Cellular Microbiology
Tuberculosis is a global health threat and the unique features of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and emergence of drug-resistant strains highlight the challenge it presents. Covering a wealth of state-of-the-art knowledge from active international experts, this book captures the latest developments in the advent of bacteriological, immunological and molecular tools for diagnosis and the development of ... Read more

$174.39 USD

Tuberculosis is a global health threat and the unique features of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and emergence of drug-resistant strains highlight the challenge it presents. Covering a wealth of state-of-the-art knowledge from active international experts, this book captures the latest developments in the advent of bacteriological, immunological and molecular tools for diagnosis and the development of
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New and Better Schools

The Supply Side of School Choice

Edited by Michael Q. McShane ...

Series series New Frontiers in Education
In the past decade, the number of students enrolled in private school choice programs has grown ten-fold. But granting students access to public financing for their private education has not led to the vibrant marketplace of school options many of its supporters envisioned. If school choice policy is to improve the American education landscape, careful thought must be put in to understand how it ... Read more

$46.99 USD

In the past decade, the number of students enrolled in private school choice programs has grown ten-fold. But granting students access to public financing for their private education has not led to the vibrant marketplace of school options many of its supporters envisioned. If school choice policy is to improve the American education landscape, careful thought must be put in to understand how it
... Read more
Educational Entrepreneurship Today

Edited by Frederick M. Hess, Michael Q. McShane ...

Series series Educational Innovations Series
In Educational Entrepreneurship Today, Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane assemble a diverse lineup of high-profile contributors to examine the contexts in which new initiatives in education are taking shape. They inquire into the impact of entrepreneurship on the larger field—including the development and deployment of new technologies—and analyze the incentives, barriers, opportunities, ... Read more

$27.89 USD

In Educational Entrepreneurship Today, Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane assemble a diverse lineup of high-profile contributors to examine the contexts in which new initiatives in education are taking shape. They inquire into the impact of entrepreneurship on the larger field—including the development and deployment of new technologies—and analyze the incentives, barriers, opportunities,
... Read more
Failure Up Close

What Happens, Why It Happens, and What We Can Learn from It

Edited by Michael Q. McShane, Jay P. Greene ...

For many reasons, failure in education reform is rarely admitted. Even though it is incredibly hard work to try and improve the enormous and diverse American education system, because there are political consequences of admitting that a particular effort did not live up to its promises and pressure from philanthropic funders to show success, unsuccessful efforts are often swept under the rug or ... Read more

$36.49 USD

For many reasons, failure in education reform is rarely admitted. Even though it is incredibly hard work to try and improve the enormous and diverse American education system, because there are political consequences of admitting that a particular effort did not live up to its promises and pressure from philanthropic funders to show success, unsuccessful efforts are often swept under the rug or
... Read more
Youth, Transitions and Social Justice

Researching Spaces of Social Action

by Charlotte McPherson, Samantha S. Sithole, Gretchen M. Walters, Frank Matose, Lambert Simango, Michelle Bellino, Realisa D. Masardi, Letícia Oliveira Feijão Galvão, Karenza Moore, Zafi Moore, Nathan Manning, Brian D. Loader, Amanda J. Mason-Jones, Elvira Molina-Fernández, Jose-Luis Parejo, Elisabet Moles-Lopez, Paul Adams, James Dellow, Kane Allen, Karan Vickers-Hulse, Sarah Whitehouse, Trudi Cooper, Harry Shier, Tim Corney, Hilary Tierney, Jamie Gorman ...

Series series Spaces and Practices of Justice
This book considers young people’s conceptions and experiences of social justice through key transitions in their lives. It examines the factors shaping and constraining young people’s actions for a fairer society in a time when real world and virtual social spaces have become fragmented.Considering questions of race, gender and class the collection includes globally diverse research perspectives, ... Read more

$37.79 USD

This book considers young people’s conceptions and experiences of social justice through key transitions in their lives. It examines the factors shaping and constraining young people’s actions for a fairer society in a time when real world and virtual social spaces have become fragmented.Considering questions of race, gender and class the collection includes globally diverse research perspectives,
... Read more
No Longer Forgotten

The Triumphs and Struggles of Rural Education in America

Edited by Michael Q. McShane, Andy Smarick ...

The lion’s share of writing about education improvement for the past two decades has focused on improving urban schools. Given the yawning gaps between the low-income and minority students that populate those schools and their suburban counterparts, this makes a great deal of sense. Unfortunately, this focus has neglected the tens of millions of students who attend schools in rural areas. Many of ... Read more

$33.19 USD

The lion’s share of writing about education improvement for the past two decades has focused on improving urban schools. Given the yawning gaps between the low-income and minority students that populate those schools and their suburban counterparts, this makes a great deal of sense. Unfortunately, this focus has neglected the tens of millions of students who attend schools in rural areas. Many of
... Read more

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