The American public school system is at a crossroad. One pathway is decorated with signs
and institutions that will lead public education towards a destination of collective obligation, accountability, and responsibility that is student-centered, community-based, and driven by educators and ...
National health statistics indicate that pediatric ear, nose, and throat disorders remain among the primary
reasons children visit a physician, with ear infections ranking as the number one reason. From earaches to choking hazards, from nosebleeds to speech irregularities, children ...
Every year, large numbers of American young people who are not terribly interested in attending
a four-year college reluctantly enroll anyway, effectively pressured by combinations of parents, peers, teachers, guidance counselors, and the normative air they breathe. More than occasionally, ...
In this provocative volume, Chester E. Finn, Jr., and Brandon L. Wright argue that, for
decades, the United States has done too little to focus on educating students to achieve at high levels. The authors identify two core problems: First, ...
This essential subject to Otolaryngologists on Hearing Loss in Children is edited by leading physicians
and academicians Dr. Bradley Kesser and Dr. Margaret Kenna. Topics in this issue on the state of art of diagnosing and managing pediatric hearing loss ...
First published in 1981, this book was written to help parents and teachers to participate
in child-based mobility programmes, covering the needs of visually-handicapped children from pre-school to adulthood. It gives insight into ways in which these figures can make ...
This edited volume studies the complex interrelation of poverty, work, and different stages in the
life course, and how it contributes to the permanent existence of poverty and inequality in vulnerable groups in society. Mechanisms of productions and reproduction of ...
This is the remarkable story of the Hoffmann School for Individual Attention, where the principal
believed in a diverse, challenging, and challenged group of studentswith extraordinary results. With a definition of gifted that included all children, Ann Hoffmann embraced students ...