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Provides step-by-step guidance for education leaders to successfully use data to improve issues affecting schools and staff members, and focuses on each phase of an eight-step process.

Offers school leaders practical strategies for supporting student achievement, with case studies examining effective methods for capturing teachers' knowledge, fostering collaboration, identifying obstacles to change, and enhancing the school climate.

A guide for teachers of grades nine through twelve to using the Common Core standards in day-to-day practice in English language arts, history and social studies, science, and technical subjects.

Examines the notion of inquiry learning and offers advice for incorporating it with Common Core standards in schools.

Discusses issues of worker rights and labor standards, considering moral questions and class relations and interests, and examines the practices of the International Labor Organization, the interaction between labor law and U.S. foreign policy, and the activities of labor-based nongovernmental organizations in creating worker rights and enforcing labor standards.

Presents a collection of activities, poems, songs, and an educational play about the Middle Ages that coordinates with art, history, and language arts instruction.