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Post-Secondary Education in Qatar: Employer Demand, Student Choice, and Options for Policy
The government of Qatar has made significant investments in post-secondary education to ensure that Qataris are able to contribute to the country’s social and economic goals. The authors describe RAND’s analysis of occupational demand and related post-secondary educational opportunities, and offer recommendations for improving the country’s current provision of post-secondary education…. More >>
Post-Secondary Education in Qatar: Employer Demand, Student Choice, and Options for Policy
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Dos mundos Student Edition with Online Learning Center Bind-in Passcode
Based on the Natural Approach, Dos mundos stresses the use of engaging activities and interesting readings in a natural and spontaneous classroom atmosphere. In this comprehension-based approach to learning language, the development of communicative language skills is the central goal, with formal grammar presentation and grammar practice at the service of communication. The text is designed so that class time can be devoted to exposing students to Spanish through creative activities and readings, allowing grammar explanations and exercises to be studied outside the classroom…. More >>
Dos mundos Student Edition with Online Learning Center Bind-in Passcode
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Community Colleges As Cultural Texts: Qualitative Explorations of Organizational and Student Culture
Community colleges are positioned to play a critical role in the process of upward mobility in American society. Yet despite the “open door” accessibility of these institutions, the question remains as to whether or not community colleges enhance the social mobility of working class and minority students. The contradictory and often paradoxical nature of research on community colleges suggests that making generalizations about the sector as a whole is perhaps misguided. This book takes an important step toward developing a more nuanced understanding of the rich and varied cultures inherent in community colleges. The contributors approach this task by examining community colleges as “cultural texts,” using cr… More >>
Community Colleges As Cultural Texts: Qualitative Explorations of Organizational and Student Culture
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The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student
Here’s the powerful idea behind The Writing Menu: Tailor a results-based writing program to fit your students’ unique learning styles, cultures, interests, and attention spans, and you integrate writing with science, social studies and math into a writing workshop. A cafeteria-style menu of expository and narrative prompts allows students to pick and choose among a wide variety of writing choices. Grade-appropriate target-skill lists for K – 8th grades ensure accountability with state standards…. More >>
The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student
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How Well Are American Students Learning?: The 2008 Brown Center Report on American Education: With Sections on International Assessments, the Misplaced Math Student, and Urban Schools
“The Brown Center Report on American Education” provides an accurate, nonpartisan, data-driven account of American elementary and secondary education. First published in 2000, the report continues to use the latest and best evidence available to evaluate student achievement in America’s schools. Its purpose is four-fold: to determine the direction of achievement in U.S. public schools; to gauge the significance of changes: to uncover the policies and practices influencing the direction of student achievement; and finally, to figure out whether the public is getting the full story on student learning. This year’s report focuses on misplaced eighth-grade algebra students. The report finds that the nation’s push t… More >>
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