Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

This book studies high-poverty, high-performing schools to identify the common trends and reveal their secrets of success. The secrets include a unique combination of leadership, curriculum, instruction, assessment, and evaluation. These schools may be the best success model for our next generation schools and may help our country can get back on track to become an educational leader.

How to Market Your School is a comprehensive guide that provides school administrators with tools to help them create, implement, and maintain a successful marketing program. Topics covered include developing a marketing strategy, marketing research, communications, media relations, building beneficial partnerships, public relations, and fund raising.

With increasing numbers of transracial adoptions in the U.S., White Parents, Black Children brings to light the difficult racial issues that are often challenging for families to talk about. This book helps parents, educators, and others working with children to understand the issues, and help children develop a healthy understanding of themselves.

In this book, Susan Gluck Mezey examines LGBT policymaking over the last several decades, highlighting advances in LGBT rights as well as formidable challenges that still confront the LGBT community. With an emphasis on courts, she traces developments in the struggles for LGBT rights in the United States and abroad.

Security policy is a key factor not only of domestic politics in the U.S., but also of foreign relations and global security. This text sets to explain the process of security policy making in the United States by looking at all the elements that shape it, from institutions and legislation to policymakers themselves and historical precedents.

Pelvic pain is more ubiquitous than most people think and yet many suffer in silence because they don't know there is help or they are too embarrassed to seek it. This book looks at the variety of problems that can lead to pelvic pain, and how to address the issues when they arise.

Abetting Batterers reveals the troubling patterns of inattention and incompetence that compromise the safety of women in the US. It looks at how the criminal justice system responds to the ever-growing problem of domestic violence, what preventative strategies and training have been developed and put in place, and why most are still failing.

This book profiles the top ten major league ballplayers at every position. Each chapter starts with an overview of the position and how the players were chosen, with compelling stats that support the rankings. Player entries include original interviews, individual achievements, stats, and biographical information.

Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam traces the sweep of mysticism-the search for oneness with God-throughout the three Abrahamic traditions. Beginning with a definition of mysticism and a discussion of its place within religion as a whole, Ori Z. Soltes explores the history of mysticism from the Biblical times through the present day.

Through close readings of films by US filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Errol Morris, and, Joel and Ethan Coen, this work studies provocative, disorienting strategies of genre mixing in contemporary cinema. It also explores foreign parallels to US hybrid cinema in films by such directors as Pedro Almodovar and Stephen Chow.

This book describes a simple, five-step method for the improvement of teaching in colleges and universities. Professors and instructors in small groups, as departmental faculty, or as inter- and intra-departmental partners can increase faculty collegiality and improve their teaching techniques for increases in student learning.

This book argues for a complete reassessment of the ways schools are conceived, organized, operated and managed. Authors Trani and Irvine challenge traditional assumptions about grade levels, teachers, students and administrators in pursuit of higher student achievement and academic excellence.

If you want to improve your professional performance and set yourself apart from your colleagues-in any discipline-these tips are for you. If you desire anything less than achieving the very best, you won't want this book.

No More Theories Please!: A Guide for Elementary Teachers is a classroom management guide for current and prospective elementary classroom teachers. In the book Masao discuss the 3 Rs of management-rules, routines, and reinforcement-as well as behavior management plans and organization.

This book provides information on how to use focus-group research to gain insight and allow input from various individuals or groups that may often be silenced during any decision-making process. A history of focus-group research is presented, along with various social and political structures within a school organization that inadvertently silence individuals and groups.

The Caring Teacher: Tips to Motivate Student Learning gives concrete examples of how a teacher, no matter what grade-level, can achieve excellence in their profession. It provides tips on classroom management and teaching strategies and techniques.

This workbook presents valuable research information in a non-threatening and non-statistical format. Educators can easily progress through the book and begin practicing research in the classroom to better meet the needs of their students.

This book offers a unique blend of presenting the variables of student and school improvement systematically and systemically to include the research and the data analysis to make students successful.

Sandra Whitaker presents practical approaches for working with educators and those outside the field to understand issues facing today's schools and for identifying and promoting sensible solutions that elevate teaching and learning.

Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep examines the origins and perpetuation of the achievement gap from the perspective of the African American community.

This book examines issues related to teaching and raising a child with a learning disability. It begins by exploring what learning disabilities are, how they are diagnosed, and the characteristics that individuals with learning disabilities typically have. Numerous teaching strategies and helpful resources are included.

To be successful, children cannot adopt a victim mentality. When confronted with challenges, character matters -- responding effectively to address life's challenges. Schools must teach character development in an environment that holds children responsible and accountable.