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Presents research findings about school-level and district-level practices and successful strategies employed in mathematics education by highly effective schools that serve high-poverty communities. This book includes both the theory and practice of creating highly effective schools in these communities.

Explores the ideological and attitudinal functions of schools, looking especially at what is called the 'hidden curriculum.' This book offers both an analysis of the role of education in producing and maintaining attitudes and values, and self-oriented culture and a different vision for what our schools should be about.

Examines globalization and its worldwide effects on education. A central thesis of this book is that industrial-consumerism is the dominant paradigm in the integration of education and economic planning in modern economic security states.

Illustrates the state of journalistic practice in the United States. This work looks at the demographic and educational backgrounds, working conditions, and professional and ethical values of print, broadcast, and Internet journalists at the beginning of the 21st century; providing results from telephone surveys of nearly 1,500 US journalists.

The book demonstrates how the research approach and design help determine the appropriate statistical analysis. This book is intended for practitioners and students.

Examines moments in traditions of appeals, warnings, demands, and debates to make explicit the connections between technological issues and African Americans' equal and just participation in American society. This volume is intended for researchers, professionals, and students in Rhetoric, Computers and Composition, and African American Studies.

Long-distance relationships have become a popular area of study, although limited work has been published. In response to this state of scholarship, Laura Stafford summarizes literature across the social sciences on various types of long-distance relationships and extracts themes and patterns across the relational types, relating them to theory.

This book provides a review of personality and intelligence, as well as covering other variables underlying academic and occupational performance. It attempts to develop a comprehensive model to understand individual in an account of the relationship between major individual differences constructs.

This book is based on the premise that the theories on which the three dominant schools in psychology are based - psychodynamics, behavioral, and phenomenological - resulted in part from the personal experiences of the theorists who first originated them - Freud for psychodynamics, B.F. Skinner for behavioral, and Carl Rogers for phenomenological.

Containing practical, and useful information for professionals and individuals, this second edition summarizes the literature concerning ADHD across the lifespan. It offers an understanding of the disorder by addressing the potential causes of ADHD, the developmental course, and numerous treatment approaches.

The amount of information available for any realistic complex situation is likely to overwhelm most users as well as stymie any designer tasked with presenting the information. This book develops a foundation for analysis and design of the approaches to providing complex information in real-world situations.

Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing offers a theoretical framework, case studies and methods for evaluating student writing. By examining issues in writing assessment the book discovers four situated techniques of authentic assessment that are already in use at a number of locales throughout the US.

This edition shifts focus slightly to balance the discussions of theory and practice, and the writing style is oriented to advanced students. Discussion questions are included to support classroom use.

Suggests the workplace as an arena for change, proposing that it adapt to the situations of workers by providing flexibility and understanding the needs and priorities of families. This book also examines employer and governmental initiatives affecting work and family life in the United States.

The message of this book is a simple one: children learn to draw by acquiring increasingly complex and effective drawing rules. In this regard, learning to draw is like learning a language, and as with language children use these rules creatively, making infinite use of finite means.

This work addresses questions of language education in the United States, focusing on how to teach the 3.5 million students in American public schools who do not speak English as a native language.

This book locates dialogic pedagogy within the history of TESOL approaches and methods in which the communicative approach has been the dominant paradigm. It explores teacher research, feminist contributions to voice, social identity and dialogic pedagogy, and the role of teachers, students, families, and communities as advocates and change agents.

An archive of normal and abnormal sleep patterns based on a landmark study supported by the National Institute on Aging. 772 subjects kept detailed sleep diaries for a two-week period, revealing normal sleep patterns, various forms of insomnia, fatigue, depression, anxiety, and daytime sleepiness differentiated by age, sex, and ethnicity.

This work offers psychology students practical help, explaining the options provided by a bachelor's degree, and describing what each of the many available programs at the master's and doctoral levels prepares one to do.

Offers an analysis of crime coverage on local television, exploring the nature of local television news and the ongoing appeal of crime stories. This book focuses on live local television coverage of crime and examine its irresistibility to viewers and its impact on society's perceptions of itself.

Studies women and men as friends using a developmental perspective. The text examines cross-sex friendships from early childhood through to old age, then summarizes the findings and offers recommendations on how friendship between males and females can be encouraged throughout the life span.

Issues addressed in this work include: cognitive foundations of AIDS prevention behaviour; social psychological and communication perspectives on unsafe sex; culture, poverty and AIDS; applying persuasion theories to AIDS prevention; and AIDS stigma and persuasion.

Understanding how the elderly adapt to significant changes in their environment provides insight into both the process of communication and the process of ageing. The purpose of this book is to help readers understand how important these communicative relationships are.

Discusses the choice between culture and anarchy, and the role the international media play in the coaxing us to one or the other. Olson's argument details the primary thesis, examines the magnitude of the United States' media success, and gives examples of how that strategy has been deployed.

A study of techniques in nonlinear dynamics and their applications in psychology. Subjects examined include the analysis of nonstationary time series, complexity theory and psychology, and linear and nonlinear systems in psychological research.

A guide for graduates to admission to courses on psychology, counselling, and related professions. It includes discussion of how to make your choices, apply for admission, and enhance your chances, and provides advice on what to do in the post-application period.

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the many dimensions along which human beings may differ - biological, cognitive, social, performance. Intended for upper-level undergraduates in a wide variety of course settings in psychology.

The author of this text questions whether the emerging digital culture of the Internet is transforming the textbook or forever displacing it. He discusses how the new medium has entered the classroom and how this has reshaped the boundaries of the book, focusing on the actual design process.