Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

This book's primary purposes center on the need for placing the responsibility for determining student curriculum and academic achievement the local school level whereby school personnel determine the individual student's personal interests and needs and design a curricular program for each student that fosters personnel success.

Financial Fundamentals for Historic House Museums guides you on how to:*Incorporate as a tax-exempt organization*Find and apply for historic property designation *Understand contributed income opportunities*Create sustainable earned income opportunities*Understand basic accounting and financial planning.

Food for Thought offers fresh psychoanalytic insights into treating clients with eating disorders. In lively and jargon-free language, Nina Savelle-Rocklin breaks down the psychoanalytic approach to give practitioners and general readers alike a deeper understanding of the theory and effective treatment of eating disorders to achieve lasting change and true healing.

What's Missing describes the ten research-based practices that have proven effective in working with students with disabilities. The practices for instruction and for inclusion are allow the reader to select a specific practice, read information about it, review a possible scenario, and then be given specific strategies on how to implement it.

This book will help middle and secondary school teachers take advantage of teachable moments by drawing students into productive intellectual discussions. It also provides an overview of the rationale and research base for engaging students in educational activities that are truly intellectual and not limited to training for testing success.

In this book, visionary leaders of community colleges will present their views about the present challenges and future approaches needed for community colleges to be successful.

How do we educate so all can learn? What does successful differentiation look like? John McCarthy shares how educators finally understand how differentiation can work. Bridging pedagogy and practice, each chapter addresses a key understanding for how good teaching practices can include differentiation with examples, concrete methods and strategies.

This timely book provides a balanced and deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba since 1492. Tracing the island's history over 500 years, the authors provide a focused overview of Cuba's long struggle for independence-from Spain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and today from the pressures of global forces.

This book is a concise explanation of what welfare is, and why it is important. With examples from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia the book explores how the principles of welfare are applied across the world.

Being Unequal explores how identity categories associated with race, class, gender, and sexuality help shape inequality. This concise and accessible book asks: How is identity experienced? How does identity help reproduce inequality? How does identity help resist inequality? What is the relationship between micro and macro inequality?

In Master Class: Teaching Advice for Journalism and Mass Communication Instructors, members of the AEJMC Standing Elected Committee on Teaching take readers behind the scenes to explain the teaching strategies, preparation tips, exercises, and project ideas that have, in many cases, earned them university and national teaching awards.

Naked in the Public Eye provides a practical road map to success and illuminates the mental and emotional fortitude needed in these leadership positions by weaving experiential testimony. The tone and format are framed to contextualize the complex challenges faced by educational leaders in an era of heightened focus on accountability.

This book provides the profession with across-discipline illustrations of classroom assignments that utilize and develop the mind's innate but informal gift to think critically. Faculty for the first time, can lead all students to think, read, listen, write, speak, and observe critically while comprehending new and revisited subject matter.

Social Media Strategy, Second Edition is a guide to marketing, advertising, and public relations in a world of social media-empowered consumers. The new edition emphasizes connections in all areas of integrated marketing and adds a new chapter on law. Fully updated real world examples and statistics make it a highly accessible text for students.

This revised and expanded second edition preserves the supportive tone and easy-to-follow steps that make the original Exhibit Makeovers so user-friendly. Significant revisions-especially in technology and fabrication arenas-make this new edition a must-have addition to any museum's toolkit.

Intended for college students in the performing arts-as well as early- and mid-career professionals-this guide offers strategies that help actors handle audition nerves, prepare for interviews, market themselves-everything they need to know in order to manage their stage and film careers.

While there are many cataloging texts, very few are written specifically for library support staff. This is the one and only book purposefully aligned with the new American Library Association - Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) competency standards for Cataloging and Classification.

Tracing the history of the new nations of Mexico and the United States, Seijas and Frederick show how the creation of U.S. dollars and Mexican pesos paralleled these countries' efforts to establish enduring political and economic systems, clearly illustrating why these nations closed the nineteenth century on very different historical trajectories.

Teaching Plagiarism Prevention to College Students: An Ethics-Based Approach provides an innovative approach to plagiarism instruction by grounding it in ethics theory. By providing an ethics foundation to plagiarism instruction, this book helps the plagiarism instructor to address both unintentional and intentional plagiarism behaviors among students.

Picking up before the award-winning documentary The Bad Kids began, Lessons from The Bad Kids will teach us not only to improve our educational system but also how to become better people.

This book introduces a thematic approach to social history that connects the past to the daily lives of students. Four unique primary source sets, reading guides, and essential/compelling questions for students are provided that encourage inquiry learning and the development of critical literacy skills aligned with the Common Core Standards.

Mary Lamia explores the emotional lives of people who are successful in their endeavors-both procrastinators and non-procrastinators alike-to illustrate how human motivation works and how to make the most of it. She illustrates how so-called negative emotions like distress, fear, and shame can drive the achievement of goals.

Everything you need to know about superintendent core competencies, instructional leadership, policy and politics, professional development, accountability and evaluation, standards, building capacity, managing finances and resources, and creating an environment for professional growth are covered in this book.

Philosophy and History of Education examines the complex relationship between the study of philosophy and history, and the value of these related studies for improving educational knowledge, policy, and practice.

This deeply informed and clearly written text provides a comprehensive history of China from prehistory to the present. Now updated to include recent political events and scientific research, the book focuses on the interaction of humans and their environment, tracing changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a fifth of humankind.

This book provides a resource for educators to develop students news literacy skills.

In order to create a better learning brain, students must be organized, adaptive, passionate, and secure about learning. Research and follow-up studies of these traits with theoretical knowledge, may suggest why multiple intelligence, child development theory, learning styles, and cognitive development should be included in every teacher's playbook.

Using historical anecdotes as well as modern story-telling and basic science, this book describes how humans are changing the chemistry of our air and oceans. The great life-giving cycles that maintain a livable environment are being altered, causing wide range of consequences. Very real solutions, technological and economic are also addressed.