The Economics of Investing in Universal Preschool Education in California: Executive Summary
ISBN: 9780833037954 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Increased interest in California and other states in providing universal access to publicly funded preschool education is behind this study's aims to analyze the economic returns from investing in high-quality preschool education in California.
Increased interest in California and other states in providing universal access to publicly funded preschool education is behind this study's aims to ...
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From Social Assistance to Social Development: Targeted Education Subsidies in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780881323573 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Samuel Morley and David Coady demonstrate how a promising new alternative to standard donor-financed education programs--the conditioned transfer for education (CTE) program--can advance both poverty reduction and education goals at the same time. CTE programs meet the immediate needs of the poorest families by providing cash or food but only on the condition that they keep their children in school. These transfers reduce poverty in the short run, and the additional education of the children of poor families breaks the long-run cycle of poverty by increasing their earning potential.The book...
Samuel Morley and David Coady demonstrate how a promising new alternative to standard donor-financed education programs--the conditioned transfer for ...
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93,12 zł |
Collective Choice in Education
ISBN: 9780898380910 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The persistently increasing scale and complexity of government, of quasi public organizations, and of private organizations pose many problems in the economics of collective choice. Moreover, education as a quasi-public good has drawn ever more heavily on public budgets. Yet economic research into collective behavior with respect to education has been sparse (with the partial exception of recent work on teacher unions). In view of these trends, it was decided that the third conference under the Ford-sponsored UK. jUS. Pro gramme in the Economics of Education should make the high-risk effort...
The persistently increasing scale and complexity of government, of quasi public organizations, and of private organizations pose many problems in the ...
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387,30 zł |
A Handbook of Educational Variables: A Guide to Evaluation
ISBN: 9780898381610 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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387,30 zł |
Standards of Excellence in Budget Presentation
ISBN: 9780910170758 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using a set of budgeting guidelines created specifically for school entities, this how-to publication takes readers through the steps necessary to develop an annual budget that meets today's most rigorous demands. The guidelines provide a means for the business management staff, school board, and community to use the budget document as an effective decision-making and communications tool. Budget examples that adhere to these guidelines and have earned award recognition for their budget presentation accomplishments are highlighted.
Using a set of budgeting guidelines created specifically for school entities, this how-to publication takes readers through the steps necessary to dev...
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533,21 zł |
How Professors Play the Cat Guarding the Cream: Why We're Paying More and Getting Less in Higher Education
ISBN: 9780913969625 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a 'must read' for every parent who has ever signed a check for tuition, every student who has ever wondered where all the distinguished professors are hiding, and everyone else who has ever questioned what faculty do with themselves all day.
This book is a 'must read' for every parent who has ever signed a check for tuition, every student who has ever wondered where all the distinguished p...
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200,05 zł |
Fundraising: 50 Proven Strategies for Successful School Fundraisers
ISBN: 9781412949828 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents 50 fun, creative, and cost-effective fundraising strategies from schools across the country and includes savvy organizing tips, guidance on ethical issues, and advice for avoiding mishaps.
Presents 50 fun, creative, and cost-effective fundraising strategies from schools across the country and includes savvy organizing tips, guidance on e...
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124,92 zł |
Evaluating Programs to Increase Student Achievement
ISBN: 9781412951258 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This updated edition on evaluating the effectiveness of school programs provides an expanded needs-assessment section, additional methods for data analysis, and tools for communicating program results.
This updated edition on evaluating the effectiveness of school programs provides an expanded needs-assessment section, additional methods for data ana...
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166,57 zł |
Understanding Standards-Based Education: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Administrators
ISBN: 9781412955713 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive handbook-which includes action plans, ready-to-use charts, rubrics, and real-world examples-shows educators how to design a curriculum that meets today's performance and assessment goals.
This comprehensive handbook-which includes action plans, ready-to-use charts, rubrics, and real-world examples-shows educators how to design a curricu...
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338,46 zł |
Understanding Standards-Based Education: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Administrators
ISBN: 9781412955720 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive handbook-which includes action plans, ready-to-use charts, rubrics, and real-world examples-shows educators how to design a curriculum that meets today's performance and assessment goals.
This comprehensive handbook-which includes action plans, ready-to-use charts, rubrics, and real-world examples-shows educators how to design a curricu...
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161,36 zł |
School-Based Budgets: Getting, Spending and Accounting
ISBN: 9781566765084 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Considering the crucial role of funding in education today, it is imperative that educators understand the budgeting process thoroughly. By presenting an overview of the basics of financial matters that affect school districts and individual school buildings, this highly practical book spells out the methodology, individual roles, and rationale for site-based budgeting and describes the relationship between central and site levels. It discusses income, expenditures, and accounting responsibilities, and emphasizes the opportunity and obligations of the administration, faculty, staff, school...
Considering the crucial role of funding in education today, it is imperative that educators understand the budgeting process thoroughly. By presenting...
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208,28 zł |
New Strategies for Educational Fund Raising
ISBN: 9781573565189 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this sequel to the highly respected and practical 1993 book on fund raising, Worth and his group of authoritative contributors cover areas that did not even exist in this field in 1993, including the concepts of "principal gifts" and "benchmarking." They adapt strategies from Worth's earlier book and introduce many new ones to meet current challenges and take advantage of new opportunities. Comprising 31 chapters divided into ten logical parts, the authors provide a complete picture of this field, which is so important to leaders in higher education. Beginning with a strong base of...
In this sequel to the highly respected and practical 1993 book on fund raising, Worth and his group of authoritative contributors cover areas that did...
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672,50 zł |
The Case Against School Vouchers
ISBN: 9781573920926 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Should public funds be used to support non-public education? Controversy over that question has raged since the early 19th century. In the 1990s, this debate centers on elementary and secondary school tuition vouchers, sometimes called 'scholarships', which feature numerous plans with varying levels of aid, but they all involve public funds being spent for non-public education. Voucher advocates claim that it's only fair to include non-public schooling in public funding for elementary and secondary education, that vouchers will promote diversity, and that school 'choice' will improve the...
Should public funds be used to support non-public education? Controversy over that question has raged since the early 19th century. In the 1990s, this...
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99,46 zł |
Report Card: The Weekly Education of an American School Board Member
ISBN: 9781578860234 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Includes 100 essays ranging from surprisingly interesting treatises on budgets and bond levies to impassioned articles underscoring the role of public education in a free society. Each essay serves as a catalyst for classroom discussions or independent writing assignments that engage students intellectually and often emotionally, in the topic it explores.
Includes 100 essays ranging from surprisingly interesting treatises on budgets and bond levies to impassioned articles underscoring the role of public...
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301,46 zł |
Taking the Guesswork Out of School Success: A Standards Approach
ISBN: 9781578860265 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the first day of school, you want your child to succeed and bring home good grades as a measure of their success.Taking the Guesswork Out of School Success will tell you how to make this happen by offering suggestions and guidance to assist in your child's learning.
From the first day of school, you want your child to succeed and bring home good grades as a measure of their success.Taking the Guesswork Out of Scho...
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301,46 zł |
Empowering the Poor: Why Justice Requires School Choice
ISBN: 9781578861194 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do vouchers offer real hope for economically disadvantaged students in American schools? David Van Heemst contends that school choice will give every parent, including poor ones, a voucher to select schools. Poor children will have the opportunity to attend the finest schools, and will have a major hurdle in their path, a poor education, removed. Building on a twenty-year tradition of jurisprudence, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in July 2002 that there is no Establishment Clause violation in a well-designed system of school choice. The evidence from the small scale choice programs in...
Do vouchers offer real hope for economically disadvantaged students in American schools? David Van Heemst contends that school choice will give every ...
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252,13 zł |
Student Activity Funds: Procedures & Controls
ISBN: 9781578861347 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While providing additional monies and educational opportunities for students, student activity funds can also create accounting and control nightmares for school business administrators. This book helps school business officials establish procedures for tracking and controlling student activity funds at the school and district levels. The book also provides an assessment framework for students, activity sponsors, or administrative staff who are performing internal audits. Sample forms and worksheets in every chapter make this practical text a true 'how-to' guide.
While providing additional monies and educational opportunities for students, student activity funds can also create accounting and control nightmares...
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334,34 zł |
Dancing with Data to Improve Learning
ISBN: 9781578861712 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For those who work with data, share it, and use it more effectively and more intelligently, this book will provide a means for finding stability and creating academic focus in an ever-changing field of targets.
For those who work with data, share it, and use it more effectively and more intelligently, this book will provide a means for finding stability and c...
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197,32 zł |
Five Habits of High-Impact School Boards
ISBN: 9781578861767 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written from the unique perspective of school board members who lead and serve districts of all sizes, this book provides succinct, straightforward information that school board members and superintendents can put to immediate use. Eadie explores five key behavioral traits of high-impact school boards: - Concentration on governing above all other board work - Development of the board's capacity to govern - Active participation in leading district strategic change - Meticulous attention to keeping the board-superintendent partnership healthy - Active participation in reaching out a wider...
Written from the unique perspective of school board members who lead and serve districts of all sizes, this book provides succinct, straightforward in...
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191,84 zł |
How to Be Involved in Program Evaluation: What Every Adminstrator Needs to Know
ISBN: 9781578862511 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to improve the direction and utility of the evaluation by program directors in charge, and the implementation of the evaluation by the evaluator. The authors contend that both of these goals can best be met by understanding each individual role. How to be Involved in Program Evaluation: -Provides a framework for understanding evaluation and the value of working within an evaluation model -Provides an overview of the General Evaluation Model (GEM) -Reviews the components of GEM from the viewpoint of the Evaluator and the Program Director--to emphasize the joint...
The purpose of this book is to improve the direction and utility of the evaluation by program directors in charge, and the implementation of the evalu...
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394,63 zł |