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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “paul manna”
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  • Collision Course

    Federal Education Policy Meets State and Local Realities

    by Paul F. Manna ...
    Series series Public Affairs and Policy Administration Series
    What happens when federal officials try to accomplish goals that depend on the resources and efforts of state and local governments?Focusing on the nation′s experience with the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), Manna′s engaging case study considers just that question. Beyond the administrative challenges NCLB unleashed, Collision Course examines the dynamics at work when federal policymakers hold ... Read more

    $64.79 CAD

  • Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century

    Overcoming the Structural Barriers to School Reform

    Edited by Paul Manna, Patrick McGuinn ...
    America's fragmented, decentralized, politicized, and bureaucratic system of education governance is a major impediment to school reform. In this important new book, a number of leading education scholars, analysts, and practitioners show that understanding the impact of specific policy changes in areas such as standards, testing, teachers, or school choice requires careful analysis of the broader ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

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  • Washington Rules

    America's Path to Permanent War

    by Andrew Bacevich ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    The bestselling author of The Limits of Power critically examines the Washington consensus on national security and why it must change.For the last half century, as administrations have come and gone, the fundamental assumptions about America's military policy have remained unchanged: American security requires the United States (and us alone) to maintain a permanent armed presence around the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Tested

    One American School Struggles to Make the Grade

    by Linda Perlstein ...
    The pressure is on at schools across America. In recent years, reforms such as No Child Left Behind have created a new vision of education that emphasizes provable results, uniformity, and greater attention for floundering students. Schools are expected to behave more like businesses and judged almost solely on the bottom line: test scores.To see if this world is producing better students, Linda ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Vineyard of Liberty, 1787–1863

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series Book 1 - The American Experiment
    A Pulitzer Prize winner looks at the course of American history from the birth of the Constitution to the dawn of the Civil War.The years between 1787 and 1863 witnessed the development of the American Nation—its society, politics, customs, culture, and, most important, the development of liberty. Burns explores the key events in the republic's early decades, as well as the roles of heroes from ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The School-to-Prison Pipeline

    Structuring Legal Reform

    by Catherine Y. Kim, Daniel J. Losen, Damon T. Hewitt ...
    An in-depth analysis of the legal entry points and remedies in the school-to-prison pipelineThe “school-to-prison pipeline” is an emerging trend that pushes large numbers of at-risk youth—particularly children of color—out of classrooms and into the juvenile justice system. The policies and practices that contribute to this trend can be seen as a pipeline with many entry points, from under ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • A Complete Guide to Rubrics

    Assessment Made Easy for Teachers, K-College

    by Audrey M. Quinlan ...
    This book takes a developmental perspective at the use of scoring rubrics to assess student work. Citing developmental characteristics of each age, the author presents examples and adaptations of assessment rubrics on a variety of subjects for teachers from kindergarten through adult/college. After a presentation of foundation information on rubrics, separate chapters are devoted to each grade ... Read more

    $55.79 CAD

  • Guardians of the Revolution

    Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs

    by Ray Takeyh ...
    For over a quarter century, Iran has been one of America's chief nemeses. Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah in 1979, the relationship between the two nations has been antagonistic: revolutionary guards chanting against the Great Satan, Bush fulminating against the Axis of Evil, Iranian support for Hezbollah, and President Ahmadinejad blaming the U.S. for the world's ills. The ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Brexit

    Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union

    by Harold D. Clarke, Matthew Goodwin, Paul Whiteley ...
    In June 2016, the United Kingdom shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union. As this book reveals, the historic vote for Brexit marked the culmination of trends in domestic politics and in the UK's relationship with the EU that have been building over many years. Drawing on a wealth of survey evidence collected over more than ten years, this book explains why most people decided to ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • EMQs for the MRCOG Part 2

    by John Duthie, Paul Hodges ...
    Extended matching questions (EMQs) were introduced to the Part 2 MRCOG examination paper in September 2006. This book provides a detailed guide for candidates preparing for the examination, and includes: • background and introduction to the question format • advice on answering EMQs • worked examples of specimen questions, including an explanation of the answer, guidance on how to tackle each ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • Big Money

    2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious Vehicle, and a Pimp-on the Trail of the Ultra-Rich Hijacking American Politics

    by Kenneth P Vogel ...
    Mark Hanna -- the turn-of-the-century iron-and-coal-magnate-turned-operative who leveraged massive contributions from the robber barons -- was famously quoted as saying: "There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money, and I can't remember what the second one is." To an extent that would have made Hanna blush, a series of developments capped by the Supreme Court's 2010 ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Executive Functioning

    Edited by Sam Goldstein, Jack A. Naglieri ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Planning. Attention. Memory. Self-regulation. These and other core cognitive and behavioral operations of daily life comprise what we know as executive functioning (EF). But despite all we know, the concept has engendered multiple, often conflicting definitions and its components are sometimes loosely defined and poorly understood.The Handbook of Executive Functioning cuts through the confusion, ... Read more

    $498.29 CAD