education retention remembered perspectives

books:

Is There Sex In Heaven? And Other Hard Questions For The Man Upstairs

3 reviews
Lee Eric Smith, Mary Tumpkin

Mind's Eye Publications, 1998

Know Your Friends and Family/Know Your Self
For those of you who are comfortable bringing up challenging topics with your friends and family, this book is a must. With the questions the author has presented, you can spend hours learning about the true nature of those you hold dear. If you are less comfortable challenging organized thought with others, take time to review your own views and beliefs. I believe this book has ...

Flunking Grades: Research and Policies on Retention (Education Policy Perspectives)

2 reviews

Falmer Press, 1989

A Must Read for all K-8 Teachers
This book compiles all of the research that has accumulated over the past 50 years on the academic and emotional effects on students of retaining them. Although it is considered a 'research' book, it is an easy and compelling read. Any parent or teacher who is considering retaining a student should pay careful attention to the research findings in this book. After reading it, you can only come to ...

Political Spectacle and the Fate of American Schools (Critical Social Thought)

1 review
Mary Lee Smith

RoutledgeFalmer, 2003

Too far?
When the rhetoric of your own camp makes you question where they get their information, it may mean they've gone too far. Mary Lee Smith presents, and the re-presents her case in this book. It is repetitive, slanted, but still has some important things to say. It will change the way you look at the educational political arena. It is NOT light reading.

A Land Remembered (Teacher's Manual for Student Edition)
Patrick Smith; Tillie Newhart; Mary Lee Powell

Pineapple Pr, 2001

Activities in the teacher's manuals for A Land Remembered aid in teaching language arts, social studies, and science coordinated with the Sunshine State Standards of the Florida Department of Education.

Political Spectacle and the Fate of American Schools
Mary Lee/ Miller-Kahn, Linda/ Heinecke, Walter/ Jarvis, Patricia F. Smith

Routledge, 2003

Meta-Analysis in Social Research (Sage Library of Social Research ; V. 124)
Gene V. Glass, Barry McGaw, ...

Sage Publications, Inc, 1981

How is a social scientist to cope with the cornucopia of already existing studies in his or her area? How to draw useable conclusions from a body of work that might run to 5000 items? Traditional narrative integration fails to usefully portray such accumulated knowledge. Meta-analysis is an approach that systematically analyzes and synthesizes research. This book is its first full explanation. Meta-analysis treats a field of research as a ...