★★★ Does Canada have a mob? Find out inside! ★★★It's no secret that organized crime is everywhere. From Japan and Italy to Israel and Mexico, there seems to be no place on earth where an organized crime family doesn't exist.You may think that one of the few safe places left is friendly, welcoming Canada, which many believe is so safe that people there always leave their doors unlocked. Think again.This book delves into the often ignored but...

As teacher shortages reach a global crisis point, this book explores how time poverty has become a critical factor in the working lives of teachers and school leaders. Arguing that we need to move away from framing the problem of teachers’ work as simply workload, this book suggests that understanding time poverty is the first step in moving toward more manageable working lives.The book brings together international perspectives on teacher time poverty, drawing on theoretical and e...

Over the last two decades, large-scale national, or provincial, standardised testing has become prominent in the schools of many countries around the globe. National Testing in Schools: An Australian Assessment draws on research to consider the nature of national testing and its multiple effects, including:media responses and constructions such as league tables of performancepressures within school systems and on schools

Over 200 pages of swashbuckling adventure. He's sailed the seven seas and explored unknown lands, fought countless monsters and battled evil wizards, but Sinbad's newest adventure may be the greatest, and most dangerous, he's ever had! Stranded on Mars, Sinbad continues his battle against evil Emperor Akdhar. Vowing to restore Prince Muqari to the throne, Sinbad and his loyal adventurers join a crew of Martian sand pirates, in search of an ancient artifact that could help them win the figh...

This collection works with the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, and his collaborator Felix Guattari, in the context of education. Deleuze once remarked that we get the philosophy we deserve because of the questions that we ask. Deleuze saw that the work of philosophy was the creation of concepts – those working with his theory are admonished not to follow but to think. For Deleuze, education remained a philosophical problem because it is connected to problems of language, authority, meaning a...

Privatisation and Commercialisation in Public Education asks how publicness is being redefined through the restructuring of nominally public school systems. Over the past few decades, governments have engineered a wave of reforms in their public systems opening them to privatisation and commercialisation. In public education systems competition, choice and autonomy have become entrenched vectors of these reforms.This edited collection carefully examines the difference betw...

Greg Thompson was four years old when he first met his guardian angel. It would not be the last visit from that angel or other paranormal beings. In Living with My Spirit Guides, Thompson narrates his story as he offers a different perspective on life when communicating with spirit guides daily. This memoir chronicles how he has grown from a child who accepted his world that others did not understand to a life where he openly talks about his connection to a larger world. Thompson shares ho...

A global education race now pits countries, regions, and school systems against one another. The racecourse has been created by a small number of influential international testing programs, and the popular media announces winners and losers. Fear of falling behind haunts policy-makers and shapes educational priorities around the world. But are we running in the right direction? We all have a stake in education, and as informed citizens we need to understand the increasingly influential and...

Greg Thompson was four years old when he first met his guardian angel. It would not be the last visit from that angel or other paranormal beings. In Living with My Spirit Guides, Thompson narrates his story as he offers a different perspective on life when communicating with spirit guides daily. This memoir chronicles how he has grown from a child who accepted his world that others did not understand to a life where he openly talks about his connection to a larger world. Thompson shares ho...