Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Educational Law & Legislation

Migrant Teachers investigates an overlooked trend in U.S. schools today: the growing reliance on teachers trained overseas. This timely study maps the shifting landscape of American education, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. Lora Bartlett asserts that a narrowly technocratic view of teachers as subject specialists has spurred some public school districts to look abroad. When these districts use overseas-trained teachers as transient, migrant labor, the teachers have little opportunity to connect well with their students,...

By bringing together a distinguished group of scholars who have deep, extensive and complementary knowledge and expertise of the Chinese education system, The Work and Lives of Teachers in China engages in detailed discussions on contemporary issues about teachers and teaching in China. It locates teachers' work and lives in a critical analysis of the political, socio-cultural, ideological and educational reform contexts, and through this, demonstrates how teachers in different professional life phases and in different schools are able to retain their vocational strength and...

This text examines the primary causes of crime and victimization while exploring criminological and victimization theories. This text is unique because it allows the student to become familiar with theories of crime causation while reviewing relevant research. Four of the chapters of the text are considered application chapters, which have criminological and sociological research that include the theoretical framework of the theory covered in the chapter. The aforementioned allows the student to see the theory from a practical research perspective.

This text examines the primary causes of crime and victimization while exploring criminological and victimization theories. This text is unique because it allows the student to become familiar with theories of crime causation while reviewing relevant research. Four of the chapters of the text are considered application chapters, which have criminological and sociological research that include the theoretical framework of the theory covered in the chapter. The aforementioned allows the student to see the theory from a practical research perspective.

With an extensive increase in the rate of crime all over the world and especially in America, the need to address the underlying causes responsible for this alarming rise has never been more urgent. Since murder stands at the apex of the crime hierarchy, this book focuses on one of the vilest crimes that the hands of humankind are capable of committing. It deals with the serious and ever increasing phenomenon of serial killing.

This manuscript is based on the detailed research carried out by Darren Freeman, a Former Law Enforcement Administrative Commander and Criminal Law...

With an extensive increase in the rate of crime all over the world and especially in America, the need to address the underlying causes responsible for this alarming rise has never been more urgent. Since murder stands at the apex of the crime hierarchy, this book focuses on one of the vilest crimes that the hands of humankind are capable of committing. It deals with the serious and ever increasing phenomenon of serial killing.

This manuscript is based on the detailed research carried out by Darren Freeman, a Former Law Enforcement Administrative Commander and Criminal Law...

Like the facts of a legal case, the veracity of a Biblical story is irrelevant to its role of adding depth to a legal rule or axiom. Like the facts in a seminal Supreme Court case, the stories of the people in the Bible provide the context necessary to fully comprehend the values they adhered to and incorporated into law. 

As you read the ten chapters in this volume, experience them with others, stopping frequently to discuss the ideas presented.  Have a copy of the Bible handy at all times; any version will do. Read with a secular lens as well.  Faith is not a...