Outcomes
On Becoming Preschool Wise: Optimizing Educational Outcomes What Preschoolers Need to Learn
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Who can understand the mind of a preschooler? You can! Know that above all else, a preschooler is a learner. His amazing powers of reasoning and discrimination are awakened through a world of play and imagination. Through home relationships, he learns about love, trust, comfort, and security; through friends he learns to measure himself against a world of peers; and through unconditional love, a child establishes his own unique selfhood. The growth period between ages three and five years is all about learning, and On Becoming Preschoolwise is all about helping parents create the right opportunities and best environment to optimize their child’s learning potential.Now influencing over two million homes worldwid… More >>
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Let’s Read Together: Improving Literacy Outcomes With the Adult-Child Interactive Reading Inventory
The ACIRI is an assessment tool designed to enhance adult-child interactive reading by measuring one-on-one reading skills.
This book describes the key characteristics of effective adult-child interactive reading and gives professionals a research-based, comprehensive observational tool for measuring the qualities of one-on-one book reading. The ACIRI focuses on adult and child behaviors in three areas: enhancing attention to text, promoting interactive reading and supporting comprehension, and using literacy strategies. It is linked to intervention activities designed to promote emergent literacy.
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Reforming Education: From Origins to Outcomes
Ambitious programs of education reform have been introduced by many governments around the world. Reforming Education is an important study of large-scale education reform in five different settings: England, New Zealand, the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Manitoba and the US state of Minnesota. The book looks at a variety of reforms covering: school choice; charter schools; increased testing of students; stricter curriculum guidelines; and local school management. Drawing from theoretical and empirical work in education, political theory, organizational theory and public administration, Reforming Education provides a clearly developed conceptual framework of analyzing reform programs. The author reviews the… More >>
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Equal Rites, Unequal Outcomes: Women in American Research Universities
This book is based on a conference held at Harvard University in November 1998. It is sponsored by grants from the Ford Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the Albert Gordon Foundation. The intent of the conference is to focus on women faculty in research universities, seeking to identify and disseminate innovative approaches to increasing faculty positions and opportunities for women there. Faculty positions in these institutions are essential to establishing productive scholarly careers, especially so in the natural sciences, but also in the social sciences and humanities. The contributors are considered quite stellar and are some of the most important leaders in their individual fields of study…. More >>
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