In the midst of a challenging economic recovery, the nation’s policy makers and education leaders are seeking new and potentially more effective strategies to align personal and public educational investments with job creation, increased levels of employment, small business development, and entrepreneurial activity. Reaching the 2020 national college completion goal will require powerful and fully…
Students become new and different people through the course of their education. When students earn the right to say, “I am a college graduate,” that new status becomes a part of who they are. The authors in this volume—scholars from a range of fields—offer methods that staff and faculty can use to explore the process through which students develop new personal, civic, and professional identities. …
Find practical research, strategies, and advice in this issue on the power of global education for 21st-century college learners.This volume assists campus professionals and faculty members as they: Design courses for study abroad Implement programs of various lengths and types Consider their own professional development Evaluate global learning experiences. It also discusses the legal and ethical…
This book provides an important new contribution to debates around housing policy and its impact on community cohesion. There has never been a more prescient time to discuss these concepts: the book provides an interpretation of housing, race and community cohesion in a highly politicized and fluid policy context. It is designed to initiate discussion and debate but this should not be esoteric and…
Paul Bambrick-Santoyo (Managing Director of Uncommon Schools) shows leaders how they can raise their schools to greatness by following a core set of principles. These seven principles, or «levers,» allow for consistent, transformational, and replicable growth. With intentional focus on these areas, leaders will leverage much more learning from the same amount of time investment. Fundamentally, eac…
«Пользу от развития понимают все, и тут я не буду присоединять свой голос к хору педагогов, психологов и т.д. Лучше спою соло в том плане, что систем развития много, систем чудесных, прекрасных и эффективных, но систематически ими занимаются немногие. Развивать мозг можно и без скучной, нудной обязаловки, а с интересом, со страстью, с громадной пользой, а главное – ничего кардинально в образе жиз…
Написание книги похоже на марафон, путешествие по миру или другой долгосрочный проект, о котором люди любят поговорить, но при этом немногие серьезно берутся за его исполнение. Вы должны доказать, что знаете, как воплотить свои мечты в реальность, и вас не должны страшить тяжелая работа и борьба, как с обстоятельствами, так и с самим собой. Если вы уверены, что можете написать книгу, то что мешает…
If higher education is to fulfill its vital social mission, new department leaders must be prepared for their positions and get up to speed on the basics quickly, educating themselves about the role and continuing to learn on the job. In this second edition of his classic resource, Don Chu outlines the proven ideas and strategies new department chairs need in order to do their jobs well. Thoroughl…
Up-to-date, reliable information about Tourette Syndrome and related disorders for teachers and parents Children with TS are often teased and punished for the unusual yet uncontrollable symptoms of their disorder. Academic failure is common. The Tourette Syndrome/OCD Checklist helps parents and teachers to better understand children and youth with TS and/or OCD and provide the support and interven…
Your formula for managing innovation and transforming learning #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education is a refreshing change from the negativity so common in the world of education today. Over the course of a 3-month solo road trip across the United States, author Grant Lichtman discovered that there is much to be positive about in today's K-12 schools. Lichtman, one of the country's lea…
Cultural Diversity and Global Media explores the relationship between the media and multiculturalism. Summarises and critically discusses current approaches to multiculturalism and the media from a global perspecive Explores both the theoretical debates and empirical findings on multiculturalism and the media Assumes the new perspective of mediation of cultural diversity, which critically combines…
An indispensable guide for middle school science teachers who have inclusive classrooms The third volume in the Differentiated Instruction series, Differentiated Instruction for the Middle School Science Teacher offers teachers proven techniques for designing and delivering effective science instruction, measuring success, getting students to work together, and collaborating with other professiona…
15 декабря 2017 г. в Институте калмыцкой филологии и востоковедения Калмыцкого госуниверситета состоялся круглый стол на тему «Гармонизация национальных и конфессиональных отношений народов Калмыкии в условиях возросших вызовов в российском обществе». Мероприятие было организованно кафедрой калмыцкой литературы и журналистики совместно с кафедрой философии и культурологии.
Данная работа посвящена дальнейшему изучению методов бизнес-аналитики на примере «продвинутых» возможностей функций сводных таблиц. Мы продолжаем использовать общий подход к практическому освоению программного пакета: моделирование и исследование. Мы поработаем с генератором случайных чисел и сформируем реалистичные наборы данных для анализа.
It can seem at times as though all of academic administration today is focused only on the need for continual change and the endless pursuit of «the big idea.» But most academic leaders, from department chairs and program directors through university presidents and chancellors, are far too busy helping their institutions flourish for them to divert critical energy and resources to yet another untr…