The seven million teachers of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are the critical actors in the region's efforts to improve education quality and raise student learning levels, which lag far behind those of OECD countries and East Asian countries such as China. This book documents the high economic stakes around teacher quality, benchmarks the current performance of LAC's teachers, and delineates the key issues. These include low standards for entry into teacher training, poor quality t...

The seven million teachers of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are the critical actors in the region's efforts to improve education quality and raise student learning levels, which lag far behind those of OECD countries and East Asian countries such as China. This book documents the high economic stakes around teacher quality, benchmarks the current performance of LAC's teachers, and delineates the key issues. These include low standards for entry into teacher training, poor quality t...

Substantial Savings can be made without too much difficultyMany of the books on the market today simply provide generic answers to the questions of how you can make those savings, but this e book does cover very specific areas of how you can prevent your profit from just slipping away.Kim has owned multiple Salons and has used Salon Marketing Tools herself to determine where and how money can be saved in your Salon.Aside from salon specific services, all great busin...

Many people damage their financial future by taking various loans without understanding the basics of the financial system nowadays.In my 10 years of expertise as a financial planner I have seen a countless number of people losing their properties and assets, mainly because they were lacking crucial and needed knowledge and information. Exactly that knowledge would have helped them make the right decisions on time and avoid unnecessary losses. This and more have led me to write this...

Experiential learning is a powerful and proven approach to teaching and learning that is based on one incontrovertible reality: people learn best through experience. Now, in this extensively updated book, David A. Kolb offers a systematic and up-to-date statement of the theory of experiential learning and its modern applications to education, work, and adult development.Experiential Learning, Second Edition builds on the intellectual origins of ex...

The next time you sit on a plane and watch the movie or you put your feet up at home and stream a video, it’s not a time to feel guilty that you are taking a break. In fact, you can have a wonderful time learning about management and organisations. And when you sit with your children or grandchildren in front of Alice in Wonderland or Oliver! or Finding Nemo, what a splendid opportunity you have to look at the leadership style of the Red Queen, who has everyone so terrified because they ar...

Technology is a key driver of educational innovation, and a variety of programmes focusing on investment in infrastructure, equipment, in-service training and digital learning resources have been established to promote its usage in primary and secondary schools. So far, little comparative analytical attention has been devoted to understanding how digital resources improve the quality of learning and to assessing the public policies that support their development and use, and the role playe...

The book that started a movement!Do you hate the way sales and marketing copy makes you feel? Sales-y? Inauthentic? Hype-y? Just plain icky? You're not alone ... and there's a reason you feel that way. It's because traditional sales and marketing copy (also known as direct response copy) sells by tapping into fear.But you don't have to use fear – you can sell and market your business using love instead. And when you do that, you stop manipulating and twisting arms to get bu...

Do you want to know how to Market a Book?Book Marketing for authors is an easy to use guide, shooting straight to the meat of what you need to know to market your book. Marketing your book can be tough, and expensive. Make sure you're pursuing the right way to market, and remember that your content is what's most important. In this guide, I go over 19 very important things you can do to market your book. I keep this short and to the point with little fluff. If you ...

Save money on expensive credit repair agencies and arm yourself with the knowledge you need to do it yourself! This comprehensive, straight to the point guide will teach you everything you need to know to fix your credit score and build for the future. This book cuts to the chase and eliminates time wasting steps with proven action plans that debunk credit resuscitation myths to allow you to focus on tried and true methods of improving your credit. By the time you're finished reading, you ...

Neoliberal capitalism has paved the way to educational catastrophe. It has also opened paths for politically productive and transformative forms of localized resistance(s). This book examines the perilous catastrophe before us, and the possibility that we can reclaim our rights as citizens and redefine democracy as a process for global good rather than a euphemism for our collective enslavement to global markets, which annihilate our souls. The authors analyze the «crisis» in U.S. urban ed...

Economy, Work and Education: Critical Connections addresses effects of neoliberal capitalism in particular regard to work and education. The book elaborates key aspects and problems of generalized policy models of knowledge-based economies and learning societies in contexts of liberalized firm action, accelerated competitiveness and labor market flexibility. It discusses limits and paradoxes of higher skilled, knowledge-based economies which include significant disparities in labo...