Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success!When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop...

How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problemsThe challenges societies face today, from inequality to climate change to systemic racism, cannot be solved with yesterday’s toolkit. Solving Public Problems shows how readers can take advantage of digital technology, data, and the collective wisdom of our communities to design and deliver powerful solutions to contem...

This gorgeously illustrated collection of poems illuminates and reimagines the ingenious, fragile dwellings of the living creatures around us.Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was inspired to write these poems by the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, an ambitious restoration project where history and mystery coexist. The reawakened landscape with its woods, meadows and 'jungle' offers a bustling, fertile realm for all sorts of creatures to inhabit. Armitage uses elem...

The provenance of artworks is a burning issue in current scholarship and politics. Transpose provenance into architecture and it reveals new and surprising dimensions in the social, material and cultural lives of buildings and architectural artefacts, reframing questions of migration, movement and circulation. Provenance in architecture illuminates the intricate trajectories of fundamentally composite objects from their complex origins to their uncertain destinations.This dictionar...

El auge de las redes sociales y la presencia constante en línea está cambiando la naturaleza del compromiso cívico y la participación política en los sectores más jóvenes de la población. Los principales desafíos a los que, hoy en día, se enfrentan las sociedades -desde la desigualdad y el racismo sistémico hasta el cambio climático-, no pueden resolverse con el conjunto de herramientas de antaño. Cómo resolver problemas públicos de Beth Simone Noveck nos enseña cómo debemos aprovechar la ...

Sucht Euch einen gemütlichen Ort, holt Euch ein feines Getränk und lehnt Euch mit diesem Buch zurück, um alte Freunde und Bekannte wiederzutreffen. Diese Anthologie ist eine Art Geschenk – ein Jubiläumsgeschenk an Euch, liebe Lesende, die Ihr uns schon so lange begleitet. Ein Geschenk an alle neuen Leser und Leserinnen, die uns vielleicht durch diese Geschichtensammlung entdecken. Eine Anthologie mit Geschichten zum Wohlfühlen. Mysteriöse, spannende, lustige, romantische und (be-)sinnliche...

Collaborative democracy-government with the people-is a new vision of governance in the digital age. Wiki Government explains how to translate the vision into reality. Beth Simone Noveck draws on her experience in creating Peer-to-Patent, the federal government's first social networking initiative, to show how technology can connect the expertise of the many to the power of the few. In the process, she reveals what it takes to innovate in government.Launched in 2007, Peer-t...

A blueprint for rescuing our fragile democracy by harnessing AIDemocracy is in retreat at home and abroad. Our institutions and our politics are more broken than ever. At this delicate moment, artificial intelligence has burst onto the scene, a powerful technology that holds as much potential to bolster democracy as to harm it. But we have stopped treating democracy as a solvable problem. We have built extraordinary tools but are not yet using them where they are n...

New Media and Digital Pedagogy: Enhancing the Twenty-First-Century Classroom addresses the influence of new media on instruction, higher education, and pedagogy. The contributors specifically examine the practical and theoretical implications of new media and the influence of new media on education. This book emphasizes the changing landscape of education and technology and creates a foundational lens and framework for thinking through and navigating higher education in a digital and new m...

This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families. It explores the challenges that practitioners face routinely - with suggestions as to how to address them - as well as the established areas for assessment, of children's developmental needs, parenting ability and motivation, and socio-economic factors.This new edition has been extended substantially to include recent practice, p...

Ciudadanos inteligentes, Estado más inteligente. Las tecnologías del conocimiento y el futuro de gobernar Ante los retos cada vez más complejos que enfrentan los Estados democráticos, se ha hecho evidente que las instituciones burocráticas dejan escapar valiosas capacidades en la solución de los problemas públicos al mantener la relación exclusivamente jerárquica con la ciudadanía. Ciudadanos inteligentes, Estado más inteligente propone crear Estados más abiertos y colaborativos con la gen...

“An insightful, riveting study of marriage.” —PeopleFrom the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful and “absorbing” (The New York Times) novel about a couple in a small town navigating the complexities of marriage, family, and longing.Malcolm Gephardt, handsome and gregarious longtime bartender at the Half Moon, has always dreamed of owning a bar. When his boss finally retires, Malcolm stretches to buy ...