Since the last edition of "Enforcement of Maritime Claims" published in 2000, there have been a number of legislative and case law developments. This new edition addresses these developments and discusses the factors that affect the enforceability of a claim, including jurisdict…
This book presents lessons learned from in-depth case studies of some of our most effective inclusive public schools. The authors conclusively demonstrate that schools can educate students with mild and severe disabilities in general education classrooms by providing special edu…
"The Still Divided Academy" is a wonderful examination of the academic community that shows their inner workings by addressing a broad range of issues including: academic politics, tenure, perceived and real political imbalance, academic freedom, and diversity. Administrators, p…
Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human moti…
"Through an analysis of UN operations including international territorial administration, refugee camps, peacekeeping, the implementation of sanctions and the provision of humanitarian aid, Guglielmo Verdirame shows that the powers exercised by the UN carry a serious risk of hum…
Presenting a critical analysis of the Court of Justice's jurisprudence on EU free movement rights, this book explains the drivers behind the fragmentation of internal market law. It argues that the Court has a responsibility to articulate coherent framework principles applicable…
The controversial author of 'The Bell Curve' returns with a groundbreaking manifesto to transform American education. He presents the four simple truths that parents and educators should confront to precipitate change: that ability varies; that half of the children are below ave…
This state-of-the-art book examines the development of performance audit, drawing on the experience in a number of different countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, the Netherlands, and Belgium. The expert contributors identify the trajectory of pe…
In this inspirational book, veteran teacher and school leader Will Place shares the importance of caring about others. He explains the concepts that are vital to a successful principalship: leadership, management, knowledge and accountability, and caring. Drawing on personal exp…
Money, politics, and law: intersections and conflicts in the provision of e…
by Wong, K. K., American Education Finance Association, DeMoss, K., Augenblick, J. G., Cooper, B. S., Crampton, F. E., Crowson, R. L., Guthrie, J. W., Ilg, T. J., Liotta, M-E, McDermott, K. A., Nicotera, A., Oketch, M., Palaich, R., Russo, C. J., Sharp-Silverstein, J., Shen, F. X., Silverstein, J., Thompson, D. C., Vergari, S., Wood, R. C.
fromAmerican Education Finance Association Yearbook
"The unintended deaths of civilians in war are too often dismissed as unavoidable, inevitable, and accidental. And despite the best efforts of the U.S. to avoid them, civilian casualties in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan have been a regular feature of the United States' wars af…
The unintended deaths of civilians in war are too often dismissed as unavoidable, inevitable, and accidental. And despite the best efforts of the U.S. to avoid them, civilian casualties in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan have been a regular feature of the United States' wars aft…
"The Real World of EU Accountability reports the findings of a major empirical study into patterns and practices of accountability in European governance. The product of a 4-year, path-breaking project, this book assesses to what extent and how the people that populate the key a…
Spurred by court rulings requiring states to increase public-school funding, the United States now spends more per student on k-12 education than almost any other country. Yet American students still achieve less than their foreign counterparts, their performance has been flat f…
Measuring History complements the cases presented in Wise Social Studies Practices (Yeager & Davis, 2005). Yeager and Davis highlight the rich and ambitious teaching that can occur in the broad context of state-level testing. In this book, the chapter authors and I bring the par…
Educational assessment and, more broadly, educational research in the United States have entered into an era characterized by a dramatic increase in the prevalence and importance of test score use in accountability systems. This volume covers a selection of contemporary issues a…
"This examination of the role of litigation in addressing the problem of climate change focuses not only on how the massive and growing number of lawsuits influences regulation directly, but also on how the lawsuits shape corporate behaviour and public opinion. It provides reade…