Quality of education is becoming a hot issue in the education community and in the wider society. This book highlights the conceptions of quality education given by different authorities. It also presents the roles of teachers in improving quality of education. In this regard, this book explores the perception and commitment of teachers to the issues of quality of education. Increasing the commitment of teachers is an important first step in the process of school reform.The current shift in emphasis from access to quality and the introduction of several reforms in the education system...

Operation Protective Edge, launched in early July 2014, was the third major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip in six years. It was also the most deadly. By the conclusion of hostilities some seven weeks later, 2,200 of Gaza s population had been killed, and more than 10,000 injured.
In these pages, journalist Mohammed Omer, a resident of Gaza who lived through the terror of those days with his wife and then three-month-old son, provides a first-hand account of life on-the-ground during Israel s assault. The images he records in this extraordinary chronicle are a literary equivalent of...