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Encyclopedia of School Psychology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 700

Encyclopedia of School Psychology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-04-27
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  • Publisher: SAGE

Lee (U. of Kansas) emphasizes the role of school psychologists as consultants, and one of this encyclopedia's goals is to introduce non-specialists to the scope of psychology applied to education. It can also serve as a reference for practitioners and vocational counselors. For ease of use, the comprehensive contents are listed both alphabetically

DISPROPORTIONALITY IN EDUCATION AND SPECIAL EDUCATION
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

DISPROPORTIONALITY IN EDUCATION AND SPECIAL EDUCATION

Given the burgeoning number of diverse students in our nation’s schools, coupled with the potentially negative outcomes and wasted resources associated with the misidentification of students for special education and excessive use of exclusionary discipline for specific subgroups of students, it is imperative that educational professionals understand and address the implications arising from disproportionality for children both with and without disabilities. This text contributes unique perspectives and up-to-date information, including advances and research that have emerged since the last of the extant books was published. Presented in three sections, the first considers disproportionali...

Teaching with Literacy Programs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

Teaching with Literacy Programs

A step-by-step guide to developing equitable literacy instruction by adapting curriculum to support diverse learners. In Teaching with Literacy Programs, Patricia A. Edwards, Kristen L. White, Laura J. Hopkins, and Ann M. Castle present a model that allows educators to address educational inequity through the critical and adaptive use of existing literacy curriculum materials. In this accessible work, they advise educators on ways to combine common classroom materials, such as basal readers and core reading programs, with instructional practices that provide high-quality, responsive instruction to all students. Edwards, White, Hopkins, and Castle credit literacy instruction as a core part of...

Prelude to Prison
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Prelude to Prison

By the close of the twentieth century, the United States became known for its reliance on incarceration as the chief means of social control, particularly in poor communities of color. The carceral state has been extended into the public school system in these communities in what has become known as the “school-to-prison pipeline.” Through interviews with young people suspended from school, Weissman examines the impact of zero tolerance and other harsh disciplinary approaches that have transformed schools into penal-like institutions. In their own words, students describe their lives, the challenges they face, and their efforts to overcome those challenges. Unlike other studies, this boo...

Broken Branches
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 191

Broken Branches

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-03-15
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  • Publisher: Vernon Press

'Broken Branches' places a critical lens on the infrastructure, institutions, social processes and practices that govern our society. The text examines the ways that neoliberalism influences society and our lives across generations. The practice of colonialism is deconstructed, showing how this practice has been renamed, but holds steadfast to its original intention of cultivating institutionalized oppression that feeds social perception. The author exposes the ways that social perceptions, juxtaposed semantics, commonly accepted definitions, practices, rhetoric and propaganda create products of maintained systemic injustice when resistance is absent and desensitization is prevalent. Colonia...

Teacher Skills and Strategies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Teacher Skills and Strategies

Presents a general model of teaching which encompasses both social aspects of teaching skills and coping strategies more concerned with survival and self. The book has particular import in the aftermath of the Education Reform Act.

National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1044

National Library of Medicine Current Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Overview and Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 492

Overview and Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Programming for Staff Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Programming for Staff Development

Models for staff development from the practitioner's viewpoints are presented with recent research and theory. The needs for staff development are examined from the local, state, regional, national and international standpoints and close guidance on the implementation of plans is given.

Current Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1060

Current Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Unknown

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.