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Strategic Command and Control - Bruce Blair - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Strategic Command and Control - Bruce Blair - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

During the past twenty-five years, U.S. strategists have argued that avoiding nuclear war depends on deterring a Soviet first strike by ensuring that U.S. forces could survive a surprise attack in numbers sufficient to inflict unacceptable damage in retaliation. U.S. military and political leaders have thus emphasized acquiring more powerful and accurate weaponry and providing better protection for it, while defense analysts have focused on assessing the relative strength and survivability of U.S. and Soviet forces. In the process neither has given sufficient attention to the vulnerability of the U.S. command, control, and communications system that would coordinate warning of an attack in progress and the response to it. In this study Bruce G. Blair examines accepted assumptions about mutual deterrence, force strength, and survivability, and concludes that the vulnerability of command, control, and communications not only precludes an effective retaliatory strike but also invites a preemptive Soviet first strike. After summarizing the assumptions and evaluative methodology behind mainstream strategic theory, the study describes the current decentralized command and control system that, under conditions of surprise attack, could be unable to communicate with decisionmakers or with units responsible for executing the decisions. Blair traces in detail the development of the system over three decades; the attempts to improve it through the use of procedural guidelines, alternative and redundant communications channels, and survival tactics; and the continuing vulnerabilities from improved Soviet weapons and the environmental forces engendered by massive nuclear detonations. Blair also analyzes the probable effects of proposals by the Reagan administration to strengthen command, control, and communications systems and provides recommendations for further strengthening and for altering related policies, deployments, and strategies to improve the stability of deterrence.

DKK 229.00
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Practical Incident Management in K-12 Schools - Brian N. Moore - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Practical Incident Management in K-12 Schools - Brian N. Moore - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Practical Incident Management for Schools will help prepare every school leader for their important role in keeping students safe in their school. This book will teach you the exact same system that fire chiefs across the country have used to command emergencies for more than three decades, but with customized information to meet your specific needs as a school leader. You will not only learn the key aspects of incident command but you will also learn how to train a comprehensive team to help you manage emergencies. After reading Practical Incident Management, you will have the tools that you need to calmly and efficiently lead your staff during a crisis. It will make you a more effective communicator and well-rounded leader. Once you have demonstrated your ability to lead under the pressure of command during a crisis, you will have the confidence and decision making skills of a seasoned manager that you can apply to your everyday duties as an exceptional school leader.

DKK 273.00
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Practical Incident Management in K-12 Schools - Brian N. Moore - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Practical Incident Management in K-12 Schools - Brian N. Moore - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Practical Incident Management for Schools will help prepare every school leader for their important role in keeping students safe in their school. This book will teach you the exact same system that fire chiefs across the country have used to command emergencies for more than three decades, but with customized information to meet your specific needs as a school leader. You will not only learn the key aspects of incident command but you will also learn how to train a comprehensive team to help you manage emergencies. After reading Practical Incident Management, you will have the tools that you need to calmly and efficiently lead your staff during a crisis. It will make you a more effective communicator and well-rounded leader. Once you have demonstrated your ability to lead under the pressure of command during a crisis, you will have the confidence and decision making skills of a seasoned manager that you can apply to your everyday duties as an exceptional school leader.

DKK 450.00
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Breaking the Cycle of Failure - Carole Mottaz - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Breaking the Cycle of Failure - Carole Mottaz - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

What are the best ways to set up and evaluate good alternative schools? It''s a difficult question, especially in a day when there are as many alternative schools as there are communities to support them. This book addresses the question from several different angles. From emphasizing the importance of open channels of communication with parents to establishing dialogues with leaders from various relevant sectors, Mottaz outlines the start-up of a successful alternative school, showing how an alternative school can command not only legitimacy, but also respect, in any community.

DKK 399.00
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The Theology of Ordained Ministry in the Letters of Augustine of Hippo - Lee Francis Bacchi - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

The Theology of Ordained Ministry in the Letters of Augustine of Hippo - Lee Francis Bacchi - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

This engaging study is an examination of the theological basis and the social roots of Augustine''s theology of ordained ministry, especially as found in his letters and obiter dicta. Issues of great contemporary interest (married priesthood, simony, women as ministers) are discussed. This monograph will be of great interest to theologians, philosophers and those concerned with the unique role of priesthood in Western Christianity. Augustine''s great contributions in defining and explicating the duties, problems and meaning of the sacerdotal are discussed with thoroughness and a full command of Greek, Latin, German and English primary and secondary sources.

DKK 565.00
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Nobody's Hero - Frank Laumer - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Nobody's Hero - Frank Laumer - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

In December 1835, eight officers and one hundred men of the U.S. Army under the command of Brevet Major Francis Langhorne Dade set out from Fort Brooke at Tampa Bay, Florida, to march north a hundred miles to reinforce Fort King (present-day Ocala). On the sixth day, halfway to their destination, they were attacked by Seminole Indians. By four o''clock in the afternoon, only three wounded soldiers survived what came to be known as the Dade Massacre. Only two of those men managed to struggle fifty miles back to Fort Brooke. One of them—wounded in the shoulder and hip, a bullet in one lung—was Private Ransom Clark. It is the story of great duplicity, not on the part of Seminole Indians, but of the politicians and officers who sent the men of Dade''s command to their death. The Dade Massacre was the pretext the U.S. government needed to begin the Second Seminole War, the longest and most expensive Indian war in American history. In 1839 Ransom Clark wrote a brief account of his ordeal, entitled The Surprising Adventures of Ransom Clark, Among the Indians in Florida . Although he promised to later supply an entire account, he didn''t live long enough to do so, succumbing to his grave wounds. In Nobody''s Hero , Frank Laumer completes Clark''s story.

DKK 158.00
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The Boston Police Strike of 1919 - Willard M. Oliver - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

The Boston Police Strike of 1919 - Willard M. Oliver - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

At 5:45 p.m. on September 9, 1919, Boston was effectively without a police force, leaving the city victim to four days of crime, looting, and violence. After a 24-hour vote, the Boston Police Department abandoned their posts, leading to the greatest tragedy in American policing, the Boston Police Strike of 1919. This is a compelling account of the historical antecedents that led to the strike and its complex political and societal ramifications. Through meticulous research, Oliver explores the perspectives and motivations of all involved, from the police officers attempting to unionize to the city’s leaders attempting to retain command and control of its patrolmen.

DKK 361.00
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The Thoughtful Teacher - James D. Kirylo - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

The Thoughtful Teacher - James D. Kirylo - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

The teacher is the most important element in nurturing an energetic, engaging, and inspiring classroom environment were authentic learning can unfold. Indeed, it is incumbent on the teacher to understand self, to be prepared, to possess command of subject matter, to inculcate in an appropriate way, and to exhibit patience, understanding, empathy, and enthusiasm. To that end, Teaching with Purpose: An Inquiry into the Who, Why, and How We Teach underscores what it means to be an insightful teacher, emphasizing that a central aspect toward transforming education is through the fostering of purposeful teaching. In accessible language and attentive to the connection between theory and practice, the benefits and features of this book are mindful of a diverse readership.

DKK 653.00
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The Thoughtful Teacher - James D. Kirylo - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

The Thoughtful Teacher - James D. Kirylo - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

The teacher is the most important element in nurturing an energetic, engaging, and inspiring classroom environment were authentic learning can unfold. Indeed, it is incumbent on the teacher to understand self, to be prepared, to possess command of subject matter, to inculcate in an appropriate way, and to exhibit patience, understanding, empathy, and enthusiasm. To that end, Teaching with Purpose: An Inquiry into the Who, Why, and How We Teach underscores what it means to be an insightful teacher, emphasizing that a central aspect toward transforming education is through the fostering of purposeful teaching. In accessible language and attentive to the connection between theory and practice, the benefits and features of this book are mindful of a diverse readership.

DKK 317.00
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Moral Theory - Mark Timmons - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Moral Theory - Mark Timmons - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Moral Theory: An Introduction explores some of the historically most important and currently debated moral theories about the nature of the right and the good, including divine command theory, relativism, natural law theory, consequentialism, egoism, Kant’s ethics, ethics of prima facie duties, contractualism, virtue ethics and care ethics. Providing an introduction to moral theory that explains and critically examines the theories of such classical philosophers as Aristotle, Aquinas, Bentham, Kant, Mill, and Ross, this book acquaints students with the work of contemporary moral philosophers. Each chapter has been revised and updated. The third edition includes a new chapter on moral contractualism and an extensively revised chapter on virtue ethics and care ethics. Additionally, the book discusses recent work by moral psychologists making an impact on moral theory.

DKK 503.00
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Experts as Effective Teachers - Fabian Rieser - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Experts as Effective Teachers - Fabian Rieser - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

It is an important aspect of cultural life that accomplished experts pass on their knowledge and experience to future generations. By doing so, they help students to excel. The professional knowledge experts command mostly lies in a field different from education. Therefore, experts often face difficulties when they teach. Experts as Effective Teachers: Understanding the Relevance of Cognition, Emotion, and Relation in Education wishes to inspire experts to reflect upon their practice as teachers from a cognitive, emotional and relational point of view and to derive from this reflection new perspectives for their own teaching methods. Thus, they may be enabled to match the professionalism of their already existing expertise in the field with the professional level of their teaching.

DKK 379.00
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Experts as Effective Teachers - Fabian Rieser - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Experts as Effective Teachers - Fabian Rieser - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

It is an important aspect of cultural life that accomplished experts pass on their knowledge and experience to future generations. By doing so, they help students to excel. The professional knowledge experts command mostly lies in a field different from education. Therefore, experts often face difficulties when they teach. Experts as Effective Teachers: Understanding the Relevance of Cognition, Emotion, and Relation in Education wishes to inspire experts to reflect upon their practice as teachers from a cognitive, emotional and relational point of view and to derive from this reflection new perspectives for their own teaching methods. Thus, they may be enabled to match the professionalism of their already existing expertise in the field with the professional level of their teaching.

DKK 689.00
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Moral Theory - Mark Timmons - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Moral Theory - Mark Timmons - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Moral Theory: An Introduction explores some of the historically most important and currently debated moral theories about the nature of the right and the good, including divine command theory, relativism, natural law theory, consequentialism, egoism, Kant’s ethics, ethics of prima facie duties, contractualism, virtue ethics and care ethics. Providing an introduction to moral theory that explains and critically examines the theories of such classical philosophers as Aristotle, Aquinas, Bentham, Kant, Mill, and Ross, this book acquaints students with the work of contemporary moral philosophers. Each chapter has been revised and updated. The third edition includes a new chapter on moral contractualism and an extensively revised chapter on virtue ethics and care ethics. Additionally, the book discusses recent work by moral psychologists making an impact on moral theory.

DKK 839.00
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Atlanta Will Fall - Stephen Davis - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Atlanta Will Fall - Stephen Davis - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

General John Bell Hood tried everything he could: Surprise attack. Flanking march. Cavalry raid into the enemy''s rear lines. Simply enduring his opponent''s semi-siege of the city. But nothing he tried worked. Because by the time he assumed command of Confederate forces protecting Atlanta, his predecessor Joe Johnston''s chronic, characteristic strategy of gradual withdrawal had doomed the city to fall to William T. Sherman''s Union troops. Joe Johnston lost Atlanta and John Bell Hood has gotten a bum rap, Stephen Davis argues in his new book, Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions. The fall of the city was inevitable because Johnston pursued a strategy that was typical of his career: he fell back. Again and again. To the point where he allowed Sherman''s army to within five miles of the city. Against a weaker opponent, Johnston''s strategy might have succeeded. But Sherman commanded superior numbers, and he was a bold, imaginative strategist who pressed the enemy daily and used his artillery to pound their lines. Against this combination, Johnston didn''t have a chance. And by the time Hood took over the Confederate command, neither did he. Atlanta Will Fall provides a lively, fast-paced overview of the entire Atlanta campaign from Dalton to Jonesboro. Davis describes the battles and analyzes the strategies. He evaluates the three generals, examining their plans of action, their tactics, and their leadership ability. In doing so, he challenges the commonly held perceptions of the two Confederate leaders and provides a new perspective on one of the most decisive battles of the Civil War. An excellent supplemental text for courses on the Civil War and American nineteenth-century history, Atlanta Will Fall will engage students with its brisk, concise examination of the fight for Atlanta.

DKK 390.00
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Bound-for-Career Guidebook - Frank Burtnett - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Bound-for-Career Guidebook - Frank Burtnett - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

The Bound-for-Career Guidebook views career identification, selection, entry, and progression as part of a larger developmental process—the career development process. In this guidebook for adolescents and young adults, the author outlines the experiences and tasks that will facilitate the career development process and lead to satisfaction and success. The reader will be exposed to the various educational and career transitions they must consider on the path to the workplace and specific guidance is offered on how to maximize entry and advancement. Along the career exploration, decision-making, and preparation path, the author answers frequently asked questions and offers an array of facts and myths that need to be considered. Empowered individuals are better able to guide themselves through their personal career journey. The reader’s command of the information in the Bound-for-Career Guidebook will give them that power!

DKK 317.00
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Boudica and Her Stories - Carolyn D. Williams - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Boudica and Her Stories - Carolyn D. Williams - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

This book begins with a study of the few ancient texts which provide the source material for all subsequent accounts of the seventh-century British queen Boudica and her ferocious yet ultimately unsuccessful rebellion against the Romans. It shows how their information was assembled over centuries to create the entity we know as Boudica as an individual, including her appearance, personal ties and home life. It follows by discussing their opinions on the atrocities she suffered and committed, their assessment of her fitness for command and chances of victory, and the spiritual, political and national implications of her rebellion, concluding with a brief examination of ways in which writers have invited others to share her story. Are her metamorphoses without limits, governed solely by the requirements of individual authors, or variations on a distinctive theme, generated by a flexible yet enduring narrative pattern?

DKK 866.00
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The Ways of Naysaying - Eva Brann - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

The Ways of Naysaying - Eva Brann - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

No, that diminutive but independent vocable, begins its great role early in human life and never loses it. For not only can it head a negative sentence, announcing its judgement, or answer a question, implying its negated content, it can, and mostly does, in the beginning of speech, express an assertion of the resistant will—sometimes just that and nothing more. The adult antiphony to the toddler''s incessant no is another no, that of preventive command, and the great commandments of later life continue to be prohibitions: Nine of the Ten Commandments are in the negative. Eva Brann explores nothingness in the third book of her trilogy, which has treated imagination, time and now naysaying. If we want to understand something of imagination, memory and time, she argues, we must mount an inquiry into what it means to say something is not what it claims to be or is not there or is nonexistent or is affected by Nonbeing.

DKK 591.00
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The Library's Role in Supporting Financial Literacy for Patrons - - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

The Library's Role in Supporting Financial Literacy for Patrons - - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Library Roles in Achieving Financial Literacy among its Patrons is a collection of articles from 25 librarians in different parts of the U.S. and Canada, each contributing 3,000-4,000 words: concise chapters with sidebars, bullets, and headers; there is an introduction. Contributors were selected for the creative potential in their topics, those that can be used in various types of libraries and that demonstrate a command of financial literacy and are able to communicate what they know to aiding users solve their financial information problems. The collection has three sections. The first provides an overview of financial literacy: what it means generally, what needs exist among library patrons, and what approaches have been tried to date. The second section deals with resources that are available in libraries, or should be made available. These include collections, skill sets in librarians, program opportunities and others. The third section is a series of case studies that demonstrate successes and best practices. Includes a foreword by ALA President Julie Todaro.

DKK 530.00
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The Thief in the Classroom - Jeff Swensson - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

The Thief in the Classroom - Jeff Swensson - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

An undetected thief lurks in America’s classrooms: funding for public education. Dynamic instruction, robust learning, and student futures are stolen when funding for public education is inadequate and inequitable. The devastating impact of this thievery is examined throughout this book. Student engagement with the potential and promise of traditional public education is stolen by funding formulas crafted by state legislatures. Theft in the classroom results when these funding schemes misdirect and disconnect the resources required to educate all US students. Called upon to deal with an ever-changing cascade of mandates, standards, legislation, and counterproductive testing marathons, but provided with funding so inadequate that instruction is often little better than anemic “test prep,” public educators in pursuit of the common good are robbed by insufficient funding. Although funding for public education is a topic unlikely to command frequent public discussion, no topic is more consequential for achievement, adequacy, and social justice in the learning, lives, and futures of America’s children and young people.

DKK 618.00
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The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants, Mushrooms, Fruits, and Nuts - Katie Letcher Lyle - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants, Mushrooms, Fruits, and Nuts - Katie Letcher Lyle - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Edible wild plants, mushrooms, fruits, and nuts grow along roadsides, amid country fields, and in urban parks. All manner of leafy greens, mushrooms, and herbs that command hefty prices at the market are bountiful outdoors and free for the taking. But to enjoy them, one must know when to harvest and how to recognize, prepare, and eat them. The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants, Mushrooms, Fruits, and Nuts provides everything one needs to know about the most commonly found wild foods—going beyond a field guide’s basic description to provide folklore and mouth-watering recipes for each entry, such as wild asparagus pizza, fiddlehead soup, blackberry mousse, and elderberry pie. This fully illustrated guide is the perfect companion for hikers, campers, and anyone who enjoys eating the good food of the earth. With it in hand, nature lovers will never take another hike without casting their eyes about with dinner in mind.

DKK 185.00
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The Library's Role in Supporting Financial Literacy for Patrons - - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

The Library's Role in Supporting Financial Literacy for Patrons - - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Library Roles in Achieving Financial Literacy among its Patrons is a collection of articles from 25 librarians in different parts of the U.S. and Canada, each contributing 3,000-4,000 words: concise chapters with sidebars, bullets, and headers; there is an introduction. Contributors were selected for the creative potential in their topics, those that can be used in various types of libraries and that demonstrate a command of financial literacy and are able to communicate what they know to aiding users solve their financial information problems. The collection has three sections. The first provides an overview of financial literacy: what it means generally, what needs exist among library patrons, and what approaches have been tried to date. The second section deals with resources that are available in libraries, or should be made available. These include collections, skill sets in librarians, program opportunities and others. The third section is a series of case studies that demonstrate successes and best practices.

DKK 927.00
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Compliance Cop to Culture Coach - William A. Sommers - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Compliance Cop to Culture Coach - William A. Sommers - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Leadership in organizations is going through unprecedented change. In the past compliance, conformity, and command and control were adequate for product-based world in education and business. As the world moves toward more knowledge work and a VUCA (volatile, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) society, building cultures of continual learning will be required. The WHY of the book is to create and sustain organization that will deal effectively with many changes. Our life is being driven by technology, unintended consequences, and the unknown. To deal with these changes and others, organizations will need cultures that promote learning. The HOW are the 7Cs: Communication, Collaboration, Coaching, Change, Conflict, Creativity, and Courage. Each of these are important elements of a more productive system. The WHAT include results that include Cultural Competence, Coaching Tools, and building a Commonwealth of practices to sustain growth and adaptability. If you want to save TIME, this book is for you. Enjoy the journey.

DKK 273.00
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Compliance Cop to Culture Coach - William A. Sommers - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Compliance Cop to Culture Coach - William A. Sommers - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Leadership in organizations is going through unprecedented change. In the past compliance, conformity, and command and control were adequate for product-based world in education and business. As the world moves toward more knowledge work and a VUCA (volatile, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) society, building cultures of continual learning will be required. The WHY of the book is to create and sustain organization that will deal effectively with many changes. Our life is being driven by technology, unintended consequences, and the unknown. To deal with these changes and others, organizations will need cultures that promote learning. The HOW are the 7Cs: Communication, Collaboration, Coaching, Change, Conflict, Creativity, and Courage. Each of these are important elements of a more productive system. The WHAT include results that include Cultural Competence, Coaching Tools, and building a Commonwealth of practices to sustain growth and adaptability. If you want to save TIME, this book is for you. Enjoy the journey.

DKK 662.00
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The Thief in the Classroom - Jeff Swensson - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

The Thief in the Classroom - Jeff Swensson - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

An undetected thief lurks in America’s classrooms: funding for public education. Dynamic instruction, robust learning, and student futures are stolen when funding for public education is inadequate and inequitable. The devastating impact of this thievery is examined throughout this book. Student engagement with the potential and promise of traditional public education is stolen by funding formulas crafted by state legislatures. Theft in the classroom results when these funding schemes misdirect and disconnect the resources required to educate all US students. Called upon to deal with an ever-changing cascade of mandates, standards, legislation, and counterproductive testing marathons, but provided with funding so inadequate that instruction is often little better than anemic “test prep,” public educators in pursuit of the common good are robbed by insufficient funding. Although funding for public education is a topic unlikely to command frequent public discussion, no topic is more consequential for achievement, adequacy, and social justice in the learning, lives, and futures of America’s children and young people.

DKK 317.00
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