Laura L : 242 books

The Wallace Foundation’s National Summer Learning Study, conducted by RAND and launched in 2011, offers the first assessment of district-run voluntary summer programs over the short and long run. This report, the second of five that will result from the study, looks at how summer programs affected student performance on math, reading, and social and emotional assessments in fall 2013.

Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) link incentives to measured performance to improve services to the public. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider behaviors, but little is known about PBAS effectiveness at achieving performance goals. This study examines nine PBASs that are...

CARE MANAGEMENT: ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE Marking the Care Management Summit 2014: Achieving Excellence!, the State University of New York - Binghamton University's College of Community and Public Affairs presents this Anthology on current Trends in Care Management for use by students and healthcare professionals seeking to build, develop or improve their practice.

Take a critical look at the theory and recent empirical research specific to mentoring undergraduate students. This monograph: Explains how mentoring has been defined and conceptualized by scholars to date, Considers how recent mentoring scholarship has begun to distinguish mentoring from other...

This book takes an in depth look at a novel methodology for analyzing Global Positioning System (GPS) data to obtain the highest possible resolution surface imaging of tectonic deformation sources without prescribing the nature of either the sources or the subsurface medium. GPS methods are widely...

The authors take a complex, under-discussed topic and give teachers and administrators useful, basic guidelines they can put to use quickly in understanding, identifying, and helping this special group of students.

A guide to teaching students with emotional and behavioral problems.

Women's voices and experiences from around the world are brought to bear upon issues of globalization and democratization in this volume of strikingly original and diverse essays. From the Comfort Women of Japan to the Mexican maquiladoras, from the debt burdened nations of Africa to the 'new settler...

A pocos días del partido contra los Halcones, no dejan de surgir nuevos problemas para Sara y su equipo. Necesitan más tiempo para practicar, pero es muy difícil encontrar huecos en el horario escolar, y su nuevo entrenador les exige cada vez más. Cuando están a punto de asumir que no están preparadas... alguien tiene un plan. ¿Y si funciona?

Sara está loca por el fútbol, pero no le permiten jugar en el equipo del colegio... ¡porque es solo para chicos! Así que se propone convencer a sus amigas para crear un equipo de fútbol femenino. Pero solo podrán competir en la liga interescolar si demuestran que son capaces de jugar mejor que los chicos. ¿Lo conseguirán?

Continúa la saga «Rosa blanca» con esta segunda entrega. Más amor y más acción en esta historia sobre los primogénitos de los protagonistas de Rescatando tu alma perdida. Lady Emma McBean, hermana del duque de Lancaster, habría sido una joven promesa y una beldad en su futuro debut,...

Ein echtes Happy End ist harte Arbeit. Die gute Fee Bridget weiß genau, an welchen Faktoren sie schrauben muss, um dem Königssohn zu seiner Traumhochzeit zu verhelfen. Schwieriger hat es da schon Arife, die als Muslima trotz ihrer herausragenden Leistungen nicht ins Schwimmteam darf, damit sie nicht...

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Global communication can be difficult in the best of circumstances. The contributors in this book take seriously the premise that one can examine communication within specific global settings and scenes with the goal of ensuring that the meanings made among those within specific communities is more...