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The 54 TABE Skill Workbooks provide skill reinforcement in reading, writing, and mathematics. Provide content and cognitive skills emphasis Features targeted instruction Offers practice at TABE Levels E, M, D, and A Available as 10 packs of workbooks

In today's school environment educational leaders are mandated to use academic standards to measure the progress of their school's teachers and students. Despite the wealth of material that addresses the topic of academic standards there is little written for those who must lead the effort to put in place an effective standards system. The Leader's Guide to Standards is a landmark book-- written by Douglas Reeves, an expert in academic standards, performance assessment, and accountability-- that...

Die Entwicklung der deutschen Hochschulen wird durch das Spannungsverhaltnis von Wissenschaftsanspruch und Arbeitsmarkterfordernissen bestimmt. Dies erfordert eine oekonomische Theorie der Hochschulpolitik. Den oekonomischen Bezug liefert die liberale OEkonomie beginnend mit Adam Smith insbesondere aber in der Formulierung von J. St. Mill und in der neueren Fassung von Hayek und Friedman. Die heute postulierte "Grosse Wissenschaftsreform" genugt nicht den liberalen Forderungen und wird zuruckgew...

None of the momentous challenges Arab universities face is unique either in kind or degree. Other societies exhibit some of the same pathologies-insufficient resources, high drop-out rates, feeble contributions to research and development, inappropriate skill formation for existing job markets, weak research incentive structures, weak institutional autonomy, and co-optation into the political order. But, it may be that the concentration of these pathologies and their depth is what sets the Arab...

Master the art of reasoning in economics with THE GUIDE TO CRITICAL THINKING IN ECONOMICS! Meant to help you learn the basic skills of critical thinking and apply them to the basic study of economics, this economics text provides you with the tools you need to succeed. Studying is made easy with examples and exercises that provide a student-oriented and clear introduction to claims, arguments, analogies, models, experiments, generalizing, and cause and effect.

Handbook of Research on Teaching and Learning in K-20 Education provides well-rounded research in providing teaching and learning theories that can be applied to both adults and children while acknowledging the difference between both. This book serves as a comprehensive collection of expertise, research, skill, and experiences which will be useful to educators, scholars, and practitioners in the K-12 education, higher education, and adult education field.

These books detail for parents what their children are being taught: subject by subject, grade by grade.

Education in a Global Society is designed for courses dealing with education practices, trends, and debates around the world. Its objective is to help students develop a global perspective on their profession. This book combines a significant number of case studies with a consistent structural format that results in students being able to draw thematic comparisons between the case studies. There are enough themes and issues presented, and enough specific case studies to allow instructors to focu...

It is clear that service learning has the potential to yield tremendous benefits to students, communities, and institutions of higher education. Increased student learning has been well documented. As communities gain new energy to meet their needs and greater capacity to capitalize on their assets, service learning enables higher education to fulfill its civic responsibility. When service learning lives up to its potential to lead colleges and universities to transform themselves into fully eng...

Specifically designed to meet the needs of high school students, REA's High School Pre-Algebra Tutor presents hundreds of solved problems with step-by-step and detailed solutions. Almost any imaginable problem that might be assigned for homework or given on an exam is covered. Builds problem-solving skills and a strong foundation for studying more advanced math topics. Valuable for students who are already studying algebra but are having difficulty with the basic concepts. The following topics a...

In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable choice for finding a successful post-grad career. Our destinies have been reduced to a caricature: learn to write computer code or end up behind a counter, pouring coffee. Quietly, though, a different pat...