British-born Black African Youth and Educational Social Capital (Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora)
by Alganesh Messele
This book examines the extent to which British-born Black African youth have access to opportunities and support during their pre-school, primary school and secondary school years. Through the voice of British-born Black African youth, this book explores why and how some racial-ethnic and linguistic minority students fail academically while students from other linguistic minorities excel despite coming from similar socio-economic backgrounds. Drawing on interpretive-qualitative research analys...
This work contains primary research texts regarding two centuries of the development of corporate finance in the US and Great Britain. It is designed to help scholars, financial managers, and public policymakers to investigate the historical background of issues in contemporary corporate finance.
How is it that, half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunities remain so unequal for black and white students, not to mention poor and wealthy ones? In his important new book, Five Miles Away, A World Apart, James E. Ryan answers this question by tracing the fortunes of two schools in Richmond, Virginia-one in the city and the other in the suburbs. Ryan shows how court rulings in the 1970s, limiting the scope of desegregation, laid the groundwork for the sharp disp...
The first text to review local school policy in such vital areas as discipline, curriculum, personnel, scheduling, grouping, evaluation, homework, and programs for at risk students. Examples of local policy as a dimension of school effectiveness appear throughout the text.
The Ethical Educator
by Sheldon H Berman, David B Rubin, and Joyce A Barnes
The American Dream and the Public Schools
by Jennifer L Hochschild and Nathan B Scovronick
The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, and ability grouping. While these are all separate problems, much of the contention over them comes down to the same thing-an apparent conflict between policies designed to promote each student's ability to succeed and those designed to insure the good of all students or the nation as a whole. The authors sho...
Freedom of Information
Since the UK's Freedom of Information Act of 2005, which allows public right of access to information held by public authorities, considerable evidence has accumulated about the ways in which the Act has been applied in the interests of democracy and accountability. Until now, there has been little research into these findings at the local level of government. In this detailed review, leading experts in the field consider best practice regarding the operation of the Act, and examine how the Act...
Ethics and Law for School Psychologists
by Susan Jacob, Dawn M. Decker, and Timothy S. Hartshorne
This volume covers ethics and law as they apply to psychologists in the school setting. It may be used as a basic or supplementary text for school psychologists in training and as a resource for practicing school psychologists. It aims to provide information on ethics, professional standards and laws pertinent to school psychologists and a resource for anticipating and preventing potential problems. Features of this edition include: study and discussion questions in each chapter; a chapter on tr...
The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education revises the traditional interpretation of the land-grant college movement, whose institutions were brought into being by the 1862 Morrill Act to provide for "the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes." Rather than being the inevitable consequence of the unfolding dynamic of institutional and socioeconomic forces, Williams argues, it was the active intervention and initiative of a handful of educational leaders that secured t...
Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America's leading constitutional scholars asks what role religion ought to play in public schools. Kent Greenawalt explores many of the most divisive issues in educational debate, including teaching about the origins of life, sex education, and when - or whether - students can opt out of school activities for religious r...
Balancing Freedom, Autonomy and Accountability in Education
The Proscription of Terrorist Organisations
Powers to outlaw or proscribe terrorist organisations have become cornerstones of global counter-terrorism regimes. In this comprehensive volume, an international group of leading scholars reflect on the array of proscription regimes found around the world, using a range of methodological, theoretical and disciplinary perspectives from Political Science, International Relations, Law, Sociology and Criminology. These perspectives consider how domestic political and legal institutions intersect wi...
Lessons in Integration (Race, Ethnicity, and Politics)
Segregation is deepening in American schools as courts terminate desegregation plans, residential segregation spreads, the proportion of whites in the population falls, and successful efforts to use choice for desegregation, such as magnet schools, are replaced by choice plans with no civil rights requirements. Based on the fruits of a collaboration between the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and the Southern Poverty Law Center, the essays presented in "Lessons in Integration: Realizi...
Law and Religious Diversity in Education (ICLARS Series on Law and Religion)
by Kyriaki Topidi
Religion is a prominent legal force despite the premise constructed and promoted by Western constitutionalism that it must be separated from the State in democracies. Education constitutes an area of human life that leaves ample scope for the expression of religious identity and shapes the citizens of the future. It is also the place of origin of a considerable number of normative conflicts involving religious identity that arise today in multicultural settings. The book deals with the interpla...
Cyberbullying in Social Media Within Educational Institutions
by Merle Horowitz and Dorothy M. Bollinger
Cyberbullying in social media is one of the most important concerns in educational institutions at the K-12 and higher education levels today. Cyberbullying is complicated because it involves children, parents, and other family members as well as society at-large. It hurts the victim, the cyberbully, their families, their friends, others at and beyond the school, and our American society in countless direct and indirect ways - educationally, emotionally, mentally, physically, socially, and in so...
"Vom Einzelkampfer zum Teamplayer!" - so lautet der bildungstheoretisch und bildungspolitisch formulierte Anspruch an die Lehrerschaft. Kooperation ist mittlerweile zu einem zentralen Element guter Schule erklart. Die Praxis sieht jedoch vielerorts anders aus. Diese qualitative Untersuchung geht der Frage nach, welches Bedingungsgefuge vorhanden sein muss, damit Kooperation gelingen kann. Dazu wurden die Formen professioneller Handlungs- und Orientierungsmuster von Lehrern vor dem Hintergrund or...
Service Animals in Schools (Special Education Law, Policy, and Practice)
by Anne O Papalia, Kathy B Ewoldt, and David F Bateman
The Law of Higher Education, 5th Edition
by William A. Kaplin and Barbara A Lee