Education

How can you turn an English department into a revenue center? How do you grade students if they are "customers" you must please? How do you keep industry from dictating a university's research agenda? What happens when the life of the mind meets the bottom line? Wry and insightful, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line takes us on a cross-country tour of the most powerful trend in academic life today--the rise of business values and the belief that efficiency, immediate practical usefulness, and marketplace triumph are the best measures of a university's success.

With a shrewd eye for the telling example, David Kirp relates stories of marketing incursions into places as diverse as New York University's philosophy department and the University of Virginia's business school, the high-minded University of Chicago and for-profit DeVry University. He describes how universities "brand" themselves for greater appeal in the competition for top students; how academic super-stars are wooed at outsized salaries to boost an institution's visibility and prestige; how taxpayer-supported academic research gets turned into profitable patents and ideas get sold to the highest bidder; and how the liberal arts shrink under the pressure to be self-supporting.

Far from doctrinaire, Kirp believes there's a place for the market--but the market must be kept in its place. While skewering Philistinism, he admires the entrepreneurial energy that has invigorated academe's dreary precincts. And finally, he issues a challenge to those who decry the ascent of market values: given the plight of higher education, what is the alternative?

Children of all ages can learn many valuable lessons through participation in sport, dance, fitness, and adventure activities. Complete Guide to Sport Education helps teachers present those lessons in ways that positively affect their students and prepare them to be physically active and healthy as adults.

Complete Guide to Sport Education presents a curriculum and instruction model through which
- boys and girls learn fairness, teamwork, and compassion as they participate in sport;
- teachers learn effective strategies for helping lower-skilled students and nonparticipants to become active and valued team members; and
- students learn to recognize the qualities of good sport experiences and gain the perspective needed to become advocates for quality sport and physical activity programs in their communities as adults.

Internationally recognized Sport Education experts Daryl Siedentop, Peter A. Hastie, and Hans van der Mars provide teachers with the essential tools and strategies they need for planning and implementing a Sport Education curriculum:

- Ready-to-use, teacher-tested plans for applying the Sport Education model to sport, fitness, dance, and adventure activities
- Season plans that help teachers and students prepare for a season of games and activities and that involve students taking responsibility for portions of the plans
- A CD-ROM that allows teachers to print all the charts, forms, assessments, handouts, and other materials
- Selected material on the CD-ROM in both English and Spanish

Teachers will learn how to select activities, organize teams, decide which student roles to use, modify activities, design competition formats, and finally, use all this information to design Sport Education seasons. The text includes a detailed plan for building class-management routines that are necessary for implementing the Sport Education model and a comprehensive behavior-development system based on the concept of fair play. The book also devotes chapters to creating a festive environment for Sport Education, integrating other subjects into the model, and extending student participation outside of class time. Finally, the book includes detailed information on assessment to help teachers build in the accountability and positive outcomes that will ensure the program's continued success.

Complete Guide to Sport Education contains everything teachers need to know about Sport Education, providing practical, immediately useful, and effective material to make the sport experience positive and meaningful for all students.

The most practical book in the field, this book provides clear, hands-on guidance for supervising teachers and encouraging professional growth. It presents a widely accepted and flexible model of clinical supervision as well as numerous research-based and field-tested strategies. Updated throughout to reflect the latest research and theory.

1986 Winner of the Imogene Okes Award and the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education

The first book to receive both the Imogene Okes Award and the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education presented by the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education. This book analyzes current approaches to adult learning and presents a comprehensive review of the research on how adults learn.

Evaluation for Continuing Education provides the useful and practical tools necessary to ensure a successful program evaluation. The book presents systematic guidelines aimed at enhancing understanding of evaluation concepts and procedures, and offers manageable ways to selectively include evaluation activities as an integral part of program planning, implementation, and justification. Author Alan Knox reveals that the key to successful evaluations that improve education programs for adults is a basic rationale for why and how. He helps readers select and develop their own rationale throughout the course of the book while suggesting fundamental evaluation concepts and procedures. He shows how to distinguish some program aspect upon which a specific evaluation project will focus-including needs assessment, goals and policies, staffing assessment, materials development, and more-and summarizes examples of evaluation reports that reflect the various types of providers and scales on which evaluations are conducted. Knox offers a particularly wide variety of these examples, enabling readers to reflect on implications for their own evaluations and fashion unique guidelines and procedures that fit their own situations.

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the implementation of bilingual education programs in countries throughout the world. Bilingual programs have been implemented to achieve a variety of educational and social goals in different contexts. Some programs are intended to support the maintenance of national minority languages or to revitalize languages whose long-term survival is threatened; others aim to help recent immigrants succeed academically while making the transition to instruction taught primarily through the majority language of the society. In addition, bilingual programs have been used to teach additional languages to students from the majority or dominant language group. Similar theoretical principles underlie the development of bilingual conversational and academic skills in all these diverse contexts. For academics, graduate students, and policy-makers, this volume clearly outlines the social and educational goals that can be achieved through bilingual education. It also highlights the need to take account of the complex political context of inter-group relationships within which bilingual programs are inevitably embedded.

In today's knowledge-based global economy, continuous learning has become essential to ensuring a productive, competitive workforce. Confronted with both a growing demand for postbaccalaureate learning opportunities and increased competition, higher education institutions are developing new strategies. Institutions are pooling their resources, adopting new technologies, developing modularized curricula, focusing on quality assurance, and creating new credentials. Postbaccalaureate Futures explores the nature of the demand for postbaccalaureate learning and how this demand is influencing higher education generally--its financing, quality assurance, use of technology in teaching and learning, and public perceptions of the academy.

Each of the 29 reviews in this book provides a state-of-the-art report of research into a different aspect of assessment of first and/or second language ability. There are sections on the testing of individual skills, methods of assessment, quantitative and qualitative approaches to test validation, and the ethics and effects of testing and assessment. The volume is specifically aimed at researchers who are looking for a brief synopsis of past and present research in a specific field, but will also be useful as a general introduction to research in language assessment for applied linguists and language teachers.