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  • Education and Capitalism

    How Overcoming Our Fear of Markets and Economics Can Improve

    by Joseph L. Bast, Herbert J. Walberg ...
    The authors call on the need to combine education with capitalism. Drawing on insights and findings from history, psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, they show how, if our schools were moved from the public sector to the private sector, they could once again do a superior job providing K–12 education. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform

    by Herbert J. Walberg ...
    The author draws on scientific studies of tests and their uses to show how standardized achievement tests must play a central role in improving achievement in K-12 schools. He explains the central considerations in developing and evaluating tests and tells how tests can best be best used, covering such topics as using tests for student incentives, paying teachers for performance, and using tests ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Advancing Student Achievement

    by Herbert J. Walberg ...
    A renowned educator-psychologist explains how children learn and how family, classroom, and school practices can help them learn more effectively. In addition to drawing on studies of learning outcomes, the author reveals economic research on teacher education and school choice that challenges many popular assumptions. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Improving Schools to Promote Learning

    Action Principles for Families, Classrooms, Schools, Districts, and States

    by Herbert J. Walberg ...
    Improving Schools to Promote Learning is a concise and common-sense examination of all the moving parts that drive student learning. The book ties together the research, policies, and practices relative to the state, district, school, classroom, and family, and explains their effects on student learning. The author covers an array of topics, including technology, charter schools, turnaround ... Read more

    $59.39 CAD

  • Handbook on Restructuring and Substantial School Improvement

    Edited by Herbert J. Walberg ...
    (Published in cooperation with The Center on Innovation & Improvement)As suggested by the title, the purpose of this Handbook on Restructuring and Substantial School Improvement is to provide principles for restructuring and substantially improving schools. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, the Center on Innovation & Improvement (CII) engaged leading experts on restructuring and ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • Charter School Outcomes

    Edited by Mark Berends, Matthew G. Springer, Herbert J. Walberg ...
    Sponsored by the National Center on School Choice, a research consortium headed by Vanderbilt University, this volume examines the growth and outcomes of the charter school movement. Starting in 1992-93 when the nation’s first charter school was opened in Minneapolis, the movement has now spread to 40 states and the District of Columbia and by 2005-06 enrolled 1,040,536 students in 3,613 charter ... Read more

    $138.78 CAD

  • School Choice Or Best Systems

    What Improves Education?

    Edited by Margaret C Wang, Herbert J. Walberg ...
    This book addresses one of the most urgent questions in American society today, one that is currently in the spotlight and hotly debated on all sides: Who shall rule the schools--parents or educators?School Choice or Best Systems: What Improves Education? presents an overview of research and practical applications of innovative--even radical--school reforms being implemented across the United ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Nurturing Morality

    by Theresa A. Thorkildsen, Herbert J. Walberg ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Despite often simplistic, black-and-white portrayals of good and evil, children and adolescents face complicated moral issues that can raise more questions than answers. Becoming aware of what constitutes morality is only the first step in determining a course of action, identifying and avoiding problems, and building communities that nurture morality.Young people learn to define and respond to ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

  • Can Unlike Students Learn Together?

    Grade Retention, Tracking, and Grouping

    Edited by Herbert J. Walberg, Arthur J. Reynolds, Margaret C. Wang ...
    Series series Research in Educational Productivity
    For the first time, this book brings together three controversial topics: homogeneous grouping of students within classrooms by ability or achievement criteria, tracking of students into courses of study by the same criteria, and retention of students in their present grade so that they repeat a year’s work instead of being promoted. The editors solicited syntheses of research on these topics from ... Read more

    $59.39 CAD

  • Preventing Youth Problems

    Edited by Anthony Biglan, Margaret C. Wang, Herbert J. Walberg ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Preventing Youth Problems provides information needed to prevent five of the most common, costly, and dangerous problems of adolescence: anti-social behavior, tobacco use, alcohol and drug abuse, and sexual behavior that risks disease and unwanted pregnancy. Over the past thirty years, scientific research on children and adolescents identified the major conditions influencing each of these ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Changing Welfare

    Edited by Rachel A. Gordon, Herbert J. Walberg ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Changing Welfare is concerned with the sweeping changes that took place in public assistance programs at the end of the 20th century and the way in which the original and reformed versions of these programs relate to the well-being of children and their families. The authors critically review the original conceptualizations and the new directions of programs offering cash assistance, food ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Building Academic Success on Social and Emotional Learning

    What Does the Research Say?

    Edited by Joseph E. Zins, Roger P. Weissberg, Margaret C. Wang, Herbert J. Walberg ...
    Series series The Series on Social Emotional Learning
    In this groundbreaking book, nationally recognized leaders in education and psychology examine the relationships between social emotional education and school success—specifically focusing on interventions that enhance student learning. Offering scientific evidence and practical examples, this volume points out the many benefits of social emotional learning programs.“Today’s growing emphasis on ... Read more

    $37.39 CAD