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  • School Resources, the Achievement Gap, and the Law

    Reconsidering School Finance, Policies, and Resources in US Education Policy

    by David J. Armor, John R. Munich, Aron Malatinszky ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
    This book offers a novel and up-to-date exploration of the common belief that increasing conventional school resources will increase academic achievement and help close gaps between various advantaged and disadvantaged students. Taking the scholarship around this question, such as James S. Coleman’s 1965 report on the Equality of Educational Opportunity, as a starting point, it brings in an ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Scandinavian Prison Study

    by Stanton Wheeler, Hugh F. Cline ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book presents the formerly-unpublished manuscript by Wheeler and Cline detailing the landmark, comparative prisons study they conducted in the 1960s which examined fifteen Scandinavian prisons and nearly 2000 inmates across four Nordic countries. At the time, it was the largest comparative study of prisons and inmate behavior ever undertaken and despite 15 years of analysis and write-up it ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

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  • The Bell Curve

    Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

    by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray ...
    The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty. ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • International Differences in Well-Being

    by Ed Diener, Daniel Kahneman, John Helliwell ...
    Series series Oxford Positive Psychology Series
    This book brings together the best of current global research on the measurement and understanding of international differences in well-being ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Methods Matter

    Improving Causal Inference in Educational and Social Science Research

    by Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett ...
    Educational policy-makers around the world constantly make decisions about how to use scarce resources to improve the education of children. Unfortunately, their decisions are rarely informed by evidence on the consequences of these initiatives in other settings. Nor are decisions typically accompanied by well-formulated plans to evaluate their causal impacts. As a result, knowledge about what ... Read more

    $103.99 CAD

  • Handbook of the Economics of Education

    Edited by Ludger Woessmann, Stephen J. Machin, Eric A. Hanushek ...
    Series Book 3 - Handbook of the Economics of Education
    How does education affect economic and social outcomes, and how can it inform public policy?Volume 3 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education uses newly available high quality data from around the world to address these and other core questions. With the help of new methodological approaches, contributors cover econometric methods and international test score data. They examine the ... Read more

    $145.99 CAD

  • The Economic Psychology of Tax Behaviour

    by Erich Kirchler ...
    Tax evasion is a complex phenomenon which is influenced not just by economic motives but by psychological factors as well. Economic-psychological research focuses on individual and social representations of taxation as well as decision-making. In this 2007 book, Erich Kirchler assembles research on tax compliance, with a focus on tax evasion, and integrates the findings into a model based on the ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Special Education: What Every Parent and Lawyer Needs to Know

    by Matthew Famiglietti ...
    The Individualized Education Program (IEP), Mediation, Due Process, Fees and Expenses, and Other Remedies are covered in lay terms, making it easy for parents to understand what is happening, but there is sufficient detail and case law to make this an excellent resource for practicing attorneys.This book gives a brief summary of the history of special education law, which helps the reader ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Measuring Up

    What Educational Testing Really Tells Us

    by Daniel Koretz ...
    How do you judge the quality of a school, a district, a teacher, a student? By the test scores, of course. Yet for all the talk, what educational tests can and can’t tell you, and how scores can be misunderstood and misused, remains a mystery to most. The complexities of testing are routinely ignored, either because they are unrecognized, or because they may be—well, complicated.Inspired by a ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Understanding and Applying Research Design

    by Martin Lee Abbott, Jennifer McKinney ...
    A fresh approach to bridging research design with statistical analysisWhile good social science requires both research design and statistical analysis, most books treat these two areas separately. Understanding and Applying Research Design introduces an accessible approach to integrating design and statistics, focusing on the processes of posing, testing, and interpreting research questions in the ... Read more

    $156.99 CAD

  • Real Data

    A Statistics Workbook Based on Empirical Data

    by Zealure Holcomb ...
    • In Real Data, students predict the answers to interesting questions. Then they analyze data supplied by leading researchers to see if there is empirical support for their predictions.• Students get practice in computing all the major statistics usually covered in an introductory statistics course.• Because each of the 35 exercises in Part A deals with only a limited number of statistics, the ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Innovations in Child and Family Policy

    Multidisciplinary Research and Perspectives on Strengthening Children and Their Families

    by Emily M. Douglas, Loretta L. C. Brady, Esther F. S. Carvalhaes, Jason Castillo, Corey J. Colyer, Terry-Ann L. Craigie, Amy D'Andrade, Judy Doktor, Audrey Foster, James P. Gleeson, Diane F. Halpern, Arden Handler, Stacy Ann Hawkins, Anne Dannerbeck Janku, L Christopher Plein, Donna Potter, Margaret Samuels, Lorrie Schmid, Terry A. Solomon, Leslie Starsoneck, Jayme Swanke, Sherylle J. Tan, Michelle P. Taylor, Yvonne Wasilewski, Patricia Hrusa Williams, Laura Dreuth Zeman, Melissa Brown, Emily Douglas, Karen McCurdy, Robert A. Murphy ...
    Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. Innovations begins by defining child and family policy and discussing the history of this growing specialization within the social sciences. The main chapters of ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD