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Student Aid: Management, Certification and Recommendations

Financial Institutions and Services, Special Topics, Education
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The Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) is a Principal Office of the Department of Education (Education) and is tasked with ensuring that all eligible students enrolled in postsecondary educational schools benefit from federal financial assistance for education and training The objectives of chapter 1 are to: describe how FSA and schools use information they…
Emotionally, Socially, and Learning Disabled Children: Theory and Treatment

Giftedness: Identification, Assessment, Nurturing, and Treatment - New in 2019, Learning Disabilities, Special Education, Education
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This book presents the reader with the main inherent problems of double-exceptionality, namely, the difficulties educators and mental health professionals must deal with when working with gifted disabled children and youths. The first chapter describes ten of these problems; on the one hand, some have been caused by unfamiliarity of the basic terms and definitions…
White Voices in Multicultural Psychology, Education, and Leadership: Inside the Walls of America’s Higher Education

Higher Education, Education
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This is a collection of personal narratives from scholars, educators, and leaders in higher education focusing on how they developed and used multicultural perspectives. Each story is unique and personal and the collection illustrates the many ways these individuals were influenced by and influenced broad and inclusive views of culture. People tend to make judgments…
Educational Improvement Through Data Mining and Analytics

Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World, Special Topics, Education
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This book describes data analytics and data mining in the commercial world and how similar techniques (learner analytics and educational data mining) are starting to be applied in education. The book examines the challenges being encountered and the potential of such efforts for improving student outcomes and the productivity of K–12 education systems. The goal…
Progress in Education. Volume 31

Progress in Education, Assessment, Evaluation and Research Methods, Education
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This series presents substantial results from around the globe in selected areas of educational research. The field of education is consistently on the top of priority lists of every country in the world, yet few educators are aware of the progress elsewhere. Many techniques, programs and methods are directly applicable across borders. Topics discussed herein…
A Virtual Higher Education Campus in a Global World: The Role of the Academic Campus in an Era of Technological Progress

Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World, Higher Education, Education
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This book focuses on the challenges of academic teaching in an era of technological advances. The challenges of pedagogy and technology are an important topic in the debates of academic scholars on the instructor’s role in an era of technological progress. Have lecturers become obsolete? Will the classroom become a studio setting in which lectures…
Student Loans: Borrower Default, Rehabilitation, Federal Terms and Conditions

Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World, Special Topics, Education, Personal Finance, Finance and Investments, Business and Economics, Social Sciences
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The Department of Education (Education) relies on collection agencies to assist borrowers in rehabilitating defaulted student loans, which allows borrowers who make nine on-time monthly payments within 10 months to have the default removed from their credit reports. Education works with 22 collection agencies to locate borrowers and explain repayment options, including rehabilitation. From fiscal…
Federal Student Loans: Elements and Analyses of the Direct Loan Program

Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World, Higher Education, Education
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The William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (DL) program is the primary federal student loan program administered by the U.S. Department of Education (ED). The program makes available loans to undergraduate and graduate students and the parents of dependent undergraduate students to help them finance their postsecondary education expenses. This book discusses major provisions of…
The Role of Higher Education in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Innovation is a key driver of economic growth in the United States. The Department of Commerce agencies and bureaus are focused on nurturing innovation, developing advanced manufacturing in the United States, and increasing exports to the world. Innovation is a priority for the U.S. Department of Commerce because it helps American industry, universities, and research…
Improving Outcomes for Students with or at Risk for Reading Disabilities

Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World, Disability and the Disabled - Issues, Laws and Programs, Learning Disabilities, Special Education, Education
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Reading difficulties present serious and potentially lifelong challenges. Children who do not read well are more likely to be retained a grade in school, drop out of high school, become teen parents, or enter the juvenile justice system. Thus, preventing reading difficulties early in children’s school careers has potential long-term benefits to the individual as…
Perspectives on Empowering Education

Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World, Assessment, Evaluation and Research Methods, Education
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Collectively, the works in this book speak strongly and eloquently to the intersections of two oft-used but often misunderstood constructs: education and empowerment. The perspectives presented here construe education broadly and variously to encompass the educative potentiality of individuals, families, communities, and institutions; paralleling that approach, the authors’ engagement with empowerment highlights and illustrates the…
Pacing in Sport and Exercise: A Psychophysiological Perspective

Sports and Athletics Preparation, Performance, and Psychology, Physical Education, Education
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Pacing in Sport and Exercise: A Psychophysiological Perspective is the first book which comprehensively examines the way humans pace exercise and sporting activities. This concept represents an exciting opportunity to combine the latest physiological and psychological theories with practical sport and exercise applications. The book will be an essential read for sport and exercise science…
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education: Trends and Alignment with Workforce Needs

Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World, Assessment, Evaluation and Research Methods, Education
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The term “STEM education” refers to teaching and learning in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It typically includes educational activities across all grade levels— from pre-school to post-doctorate—in both formal (e.g., classrooms) and informal (e.g., afterschool programs) settings. Federal policymakers have an active and enduring interest in STEM education and the topic…
Reforming Education in Contemporary Macao: Issues and Challenges

Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World, Assessment, Evaluation and Research Methods, Education
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Issues such as the high rate of grade retention and the low completion rate of basic education in Macao have drawn a lot of public attention. More at issue is the quality of education in Macao. While blame for academic failure is usually laid on individual students, in this book Yi-Lee Wong and Chi-Fong Chan…
Federal Student Loan Forgiveness and Loan Repayment Programs: Descriptions and Considerations

Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World, Special Topics, Education
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Student loan forgiveness and loan repayment programs provide borrowers a means of having all or part of their student loan debt forgiven or repaid in exchange for work or service in specific fields or professions or following a prolonged period during which their student loan debt burden is high relative to their income. In both…
Reflective Teaching As Professional Practice

Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World, Assessment, Evaluation and Research Methods, Education
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The content of this book is an important trajectory in teaching and learning. It does not only explore teacher understanding and practice of ‘reflective teaching’ and how teacher practitioners internalise the act in their teaching practice but adds to ongoing debates about the dynamic mix of teachers approach to teaching. The reported study is exploratory…
Global Perspectives on University Students

University Teaching and Faculty Development, Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World, Higher Education, Education
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of different dimensions that influence university students, such as social factors (including the indigenous perspectives, social identity and mental health, depressive symptoms in university, the helicopter parenting, the change in family relations and adoptions of healthy/unhealthy behaviors while in college); individual aspects that influence this population (like personal autonomy…
Key Congressional Reports on Education. Volume 1

Congressional Policies, Practices and Procedures, Congressional Activity, American Government and Politics, Politics, Special Topics, Education
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This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the Congressional Research Service on education during the month of January and February. (Imprint: SNOVA)
Higher Education Institutions: Perspectives, Opportunities and Challenges

University Teaching and Faculty Development, Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World, Higher Education, Education
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In the opening chapter of Higher Education Institutions: Perspectives, Opportunities and Challenges, the authors investigate and present the concept of internal quality assurance system implementation maturity, aiming to analyze the existing theoretical underpinnings on how maturity can be understood and approached in terms of an internal quality assurance system. Some pathways available to the higher…
National Science Foundation: Background, Policies and Contracting Practices

Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World, Special Topics, Education
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) supports both basic research and education in the nonmedical sciences and engineering. Congress established the foundation as an independent federal agency in 1950 and directed it to “promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense; and for other purposes.” The…
Ongoing Assessment for Tailored Teaching in Early Childhood: Conceptual Framework and Measurement Development

Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World, Assessment, Evaluation and Research Methods, Education
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In 2012, the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation within the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, engaged Mathematica Policy Research and its partners to conduct a project titled “Assessing Early Childhood Teachers’ Use of Child Progress Monitoring to Individualize Teaching Practices.” The purpose of the project is to…
Working with Challenging Children: From Theory to Practice in Primary Education

Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World, Assessment, Evaluation and Research Methods, Education
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Education brings together recent research findings in children’s psychopathology with practical implications in educational settings. The text provides the latest user-friendly volume facts from neurosciences, psychology, special education, classroom management, child development, cross cultural research and can be used to guide educational professionals in typical or mainstreaming primary settings. The book presents in-depth background information…
Teaching Language Skills

Languages and Linguistics, Special Topics, Education
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This is a book written for language teachers, prospective teachers, students in the language teaching departments and researchers working in this field. This book includes the issues related to language teaching, how to do it effectively and how to focus on different language skills such as listening, speaking, reading and writing in the language classroom.…
Improving the Academic Writing Experience in Higher Education

University Teaching and Faculty Development, Higher Education, Education
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To fulfill their academic purposes in higher education, students must mobilize knowledge learned in the classroom, but also obtained individually and with access to a variety of sources, in particular, the information resources available in their libraries. To achieve an academic degree as master or doctor, information resources grow in importance and meaning, since because…