Improving Student Retention in Higher Education

The Role of Teaching and Learning

By Glenda Crosling, Liz Thomas, Margaret Heagney

Improving Student Retention in Higher Education provides a practical, curriculum-based response to the current situation in higher education, where participating students emanate from a range...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39921-0 (Routledge)

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Ethical Educational Leadership in Turbulent Times

(Re) Solving Moral Dilemmas

Edited by Joan Poliner Shapiro, Steven Jay Gross

This text is designed to assist educational leaders in the ethical decision-making process. Theoretically, it is based on Gross’s Turbulence Theory and Shapiro and Stefkovich’s...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5600-2 (Routledge)

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Reading Comprehension Research and Testing in the U.S.

Undercurrents of Race, Class, and Power in the Struggle for Meaning

By Arlette Ingram Willis

This book challenges traditional, sanctioned, and official histories of reading comprehension by examining how ideological and cultural hegemony work to reproduce dominant ideologies through education...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5052-9 (Routledge)

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Improving Testing

Process Tools and Techniques to Assure Quality

Edited by Cheryl Wild, Rohit Ramaswamy

The primary purpose of this book is to demonstrate how proven quality assurance tools and methods that have been applied successfully in the manufacturing and service...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-6469-4 (Routledge)

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Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform

Science, Education, and Making Society by Making the Child

By Thomas S. Popkewitz

In Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform, noted educationalist Thomas Popkewitz explores turn-of-the-century and contemporary pedagogical reforms while illuminating their complex relation to cosmopolitanism....

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95815-8 (Routledge)

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Civic Education for Diverse Citizens in Global Times

Rethinking Theory and Practice

Edited by Beth C. Rubin, James M. Giarelli

This book explores four interrelated themes: rethinking civic education in light of the diversity of U.S. society; re-examining these notions in an increasingly interconnected global...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-5159-5 (Routledge)

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Youth Culture and Sport

Identity, Power, and Politics

Edited by Michael D. Giardina, Michele K. Donnelly

Youth Culture and Sport critically interrogates and challenges contemporary articulations of race, class, gender, and sexual relations circulating throughout popular iterations of youth sporting culture in...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95581-2 (Routledge)

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Knowledge & Power in the Global Economy

The Effects of School Reform in a Neoliberal/Neoconservative Age

Edited by David Gabbard

The second edition of Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy examines how neoliberal and neoconservative policies are working in tandem to privatize and commercialize...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5939-3 (Routledge)

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Assessment of Problem Solving Using Simulations

Edited by Eva Baker, Jan Dickieson, Wallace Wulfeck, Harold F. O'Neil

This volume explores the application of computer simulation technology to measurement issues in education -- especially as it pertains to problem based learning. Whereas most...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-6293-5 (Routledge)

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Merit Aid and the Politics of Education

By Erik C. Ness

While a substantial number of studies have evaluated the effects of merit aid programs, there is a surprising lack of any systematic consideration of how states...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96100-4 (Routledge)

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