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View book details for Closing the Gap between Risk and Resilience
How Struggling Learners Can Cope with the Common Core State Standards
R&L Education
Although there has been considerable interest and concern surrounding the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, there is almost no information regarding best practices for getting at-risk students to attempt the rigor embraced by the Standards. This text offers …
View book details for Unlocking the Moviemaking Mind
Tales of Voice, Vision, and Video from K-12 Classrooms
R&L Education
Have you ever had an idea for a book, a movie, or a TV show? Chances are that youve had many. Todays students, who are coming of age in a world that is increasingly mediated by smartphones, pads, pods, apps, …
View book details for A Teaching Guide to Revitalizing STEM Education
Phoenix in the Classroom
R&L Education
Standard math and science textbooks typically follow a deductive style of content presentation that involves too much lecturing, too much of the teachers back at the chalkboard, too little interaction with students, and too little time for all of the …
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A Guide for Teaching Assistants, Instructors, and New Professors at All Colleges and Universities
R&L Education
People who teach in higher education are subject matter specialists, but they often have little preparation in how to teach. This book presents the knowledge base of college teaching in a user-friendly, easy-to-read, yet well-researched format. From sample syllabi to …
View book details for Supervising Student Teachers The Professional Way
Instructor's Guide
R&L Education
Instructors using the textbook, Supervising Student Teachers: The Professional Way, 7th Edition, will find its companion instructor's guide a helpful resource. Chapter-by-chapter, the instructor is provided with core ideas for guiding cooperating teachers' understanding and skill development needed for effective …
View book details for A Quaker Goes to Spain
The Diplomatic Mission of Anthony Morris, 18131816
Lehigh University Press
In the summer of 1813, as war with Britain intensified, President James Madison secretly dispatched an envoy to the Regency government of Spain with the urgent goal of thwarting a feared British bid to use Spanish Florida as a base …
View book details for The Urban School System of the Future
Applying the Principles and Lessons of Chartering
R&L Education
For more than two generations, the traditional urban school systemthe districthas utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetime of success. Millions and millions of boys and girls have suffered the grievous consequences. The district is …
Scarecrow Press
The Broadway musical has greatly influenced American (and world) culture. Such shows as Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun are as 'American as apple pie,' while the long runs of imports like Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Les …
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The Institutionalization of Corporate Philanthropy and Volunteerism in American Communities
UPA
Americanizing Japanese Firms examines the concept of corporate social responsibility in Japanese manufacturing companies within the United States. The study compares the corporate philanthropy of Japanese companies against American and British companies. Specifically, the study investigates characteristics of Japanese companies …
View book details for A Year of Hitchcock
52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense
Scarecrow Press
Alfred Hitchcock's career spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than 50 films, many of them indisputable classics: Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho, among others. In A Year of …
Scarecrow Press
A great deal has been written about the history of witchcraft, but much of what has been written is unreliable, exaggerated, or inaccurate. This problem is especially acute in regard to modern witchcraft, or Wicca, and its supposed connections to …
View book details for The Missing Link
Teaching and Learning Critical Success Skills
R&L Education
A glance at successful people reveals a simple truth: successful people employ successful habits. Yet in schools, amongst all of the information and all of the skills that are taught, few concern how to employ and internalize these key habits …
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Substance Abuse on the Big Screen
Scarecrow Press
Though drug use was widespread in the nineteenth century, the negative influence of narcotics was mostly unknown. Cinema of the early twentieth century was instrumental in making viewers aware of the harmful effects of drugs. Throughout the decades, images of …
View book details for The Synergy of Film and Music
Sight and Sound in Five Hollywood Films
Scarecrow Press
Although writers on film music frequently allude to specific parts of scores, comprehensive examinations of entire scores are rare. In addition, most analyses of scores composed for the screen are discussed outside their cinematic context. To best understand the role …
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A Performance Guide with Translations and Pronunciation
Scarecrow Press
Known worldwide as a composer of symphonies and chamber music, Czech composer Antonin Dvorak declared toward the end of his life that his main love was writing operas. Written in 1900 at the height of Dvoraks creative powers, his fairy …
Scarecrow Press
The Gilded Age was an important three-decade period in American history. It was a time of transition, when the United States began to recover from its Civil War and post-war rebuilding phase. It was as a time of progress in …
Scarecrow Press
The world as we have known it for the past century would have been very different without petroleum. Petroleum, particularly in the form of crude oil and its refined products, has been central to all aspects of modern industrial society …
View book details for The Irish Fairy Tale
A Narrative Tradition from the Middle Ages to Yeats and Stephens
John Cabot University Press
Beginning with a critical reappraisal of the notion of fairy tale and extending it to include categories and genres which are in common usage in folklore and in literary studies, this book throws light on the general processes involved in …
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Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Bucknell University Press
Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British year of victories during the Seven Years War, 1759 was also an important year in the …
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The Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild Series, 1946-1977
Scarecrow Press
Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild were the first commercially significant record clubs in the world. By applying proven book club methods to the field of phonograph records, these two related companies attracted some hundred thousand subscribers at their …
View book details for American Paradise
Hidden Ironies, Contradictions, Illusions, and Delusions, Paradoxes, Dilemmas, and Absurdities in American Life
UPA
The way we live, work, and die-alone and with other Americans-have so many hidden layers that we might as well say that there are two Americas: one we think we know and the other virtually unknown to us. Such a …
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A Career-Switcher's Guide to Teaching
R&L Education
Out there in the vast community of new teachers, there are career-switchers wondering why they left Egypt (their last jobs), only to be miserable in the desert (their first year or so teaching). The high turnover rate suggests that many …
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Tanka: Expressing the Modern Soul in an Ancient Poetic Style
UPA
The concept of a universal human nature suggests that American scholars and American readers of Japanese literature may interpret the elements in Japanese tanka based on emotions and on meanings attached to natural images that are common to all of …
View book details for Masters of Preaching
The Most Poignant and Powerful Homilists in Church History
Hamilton Books
The history of Catholic homiletics is rich and layered with theology and spirituality. Every period of Church history contains preachers who have been blessed with oratorical skills and spiritual depth. They are saints, scholars, bishops, priests, and deacons from the …
Scarecrow Press
Gridiron football or American football or just plain football is the most popular sport in the United States in the 21st century. Although attempts have been made to develop the sport outside North America, it is still predominantly a North …
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