We are all invested in the creation of safe and drug-free schools. As parents kiss their children good-bye in the morning, they want to know that their kids will return safely to them that afternoon. All teachers and principals want to enter their school building each day knowing that it will be a full day…
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American schools can no longer afford to operate in isolation. As a result, many school-linked and school-based health and human service programs have sprung up around the country. Schools are also reaching out to parents and the community to strengthen students’ educational foundations. State education agencies play a role in supporting many of these school-community…
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Documented efforts to enhance the development of children, especially to remediate the consequences of deprivation, have taken place since the early nineteenth century, when researchers learned that certain types of early experience were essential for the emergence of high intellectual functioning. More recently, studies of children in orphanages in the 1950s and 1960s initiated the…
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Early childhood development and education has been a major topic of discussion and planning at all levels—federal, state, and local communities — not only because of the widespread recognition of the research base on the importance of early development to long-term schooling success, but as a critical national investment strategy for the future of the…
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Novel Antimicrobial Agents and Strategies, ISBN-13: 978-3527336388 [PDF eBook eTextbook] 440 pages ISBN-13: 978-3527336388 ISBN-10: 9783527336388 Publisher: Wiley-VCH; 1st Edition (November 24, 2014) Author(s): David A. Phoenix, Frederick Harris, Sarah R. Dennison Language: English By integrating knowledge from pharmacology, microbiology, molecular medicine, and engineering, researchers from Europe, the U.S. and Asia cover a…
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Handbook of Applied System Science, ISBN-13: 978-0415843324 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Series: Routledge Handbooks 656 pages Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (November 2, 2016) Author(s): Zachary P. Neal Language: English ISBN-10: 0415843324 ISBN-13: 978-0415843324 The Handbook of Applied System Science is organized around both methodological approaches in systems science, and the substantive topic to which…
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With the best of intentions, educators are recommending an infusion of energy directed at increasing parental participation in schools. The federal government has issued documents to help schools organize parent participation programs. Major educational interventions list parental involvement as an important ingredient. Scholarly writing on the topic abounds; new searches produce hundreds of references, many…
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Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine 2nd Edition, ISBN-13: 978-0443069925 [PDF eBook eTextbook] 1056 pages Publisher: Churchill Livingstone; 2 edition (January 14, 2013) Author(s): Kerry Bone, Simon Mills Language: English ISBN-10: 9780443069925 ISBN-13: 978-0443069925 The authoritative and comprehensive modern textbook on western herbal medicine – now in its second edition This…
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Behavioral Genetics Seventh Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1464176050 [PDF eBook eTextbook] 528 pages Publisher: Worth Publishers; Seventh edition (October 2, 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 1464176051 ISBN-13: 978-1464176050 With its concise and clear and presentation, the best selling Behavioral Genetics, 7th edition introduces students to the field’s underlying principles, ongoing controversies, defining experiments, and most recent…
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Leadership in education has so many different dimensions and definitional issues that it’s very elusive, and has become more complicated since the involvement of business and political communities. Principals had for a long time served as managers of schools, but in the last 10 or 15 years there’s been a sea change in their…
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Motor Learning and Development Second Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1492536598 [PDF eBook eTextbook] 464 pages Publisher: Human Kinetics, Inc.; Second edition (October 2, 2017) Language: English ISBN-10: 9781492536598 ISBN-13: 978-1492536598 Motor Learning and Development, Second Edition provides a foundation for understanding how humans acquire and continue to hone their movement skills throughout the life span. These fundamentals…
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American Corrections: Concepts and Controversies 2nd Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1506362366 [PDF eBook eTextbook] 512 pages Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc; Second edition (March 14, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 1506362362 ISBN-13: 978-1506362366 American Corrections, Second Edition offers you a contemporary, issues-oriented introduction that covers every aspect of corrections, prompting you to think critically about complex issues that are…
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