Sarah warns her granddad not to honk his horn, but he won’t listen. Find out what happens in this tale of driving etiquette in Boston. This book is written by Nancy Devlin, a school psychologist, and richly illustrated by Jared Perella.

Our schools have a great deal to offer if people know how to use them well. When parents, teachers, and children understand each other, and the system, everybody benefits. You can best help your school by being supportive, by encouraging the people in the system, and by understanding what the school can and cannot do. This book will help you become an informed parent acting responsibly for positive results.

A practical, introductory guide to the best use of Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) to improve the quality of health care and patient health.Only title to exclusively introduce, explain and show how PROs can be best used to improve healthcare and patient outcomesIncludes real life examples and case studies of PROs in practiceAssesses the growing evidence base for PROs in practiceEditor team from Office of Health Economics (OHE), The King's Fund a...

Being just a mother is the highest calling one can have. The problem is that no one believes thisnot the mother, not the workplace, and not the government.

Being just a mother is the highest calling one can have. The problem is that no one believes thisnot the mother, not the workplace, and not the government.

Teachers are being treated more and more like Cassandra from Greek myth. Cassandra, as the story goes, could foresee the future correctly. Her curse was that no one believed her. I feel like a Cassandra. I have taught elementary school, grades 1-8, junior college and college courses. I have earned a PhD in educational psychology, and worked twenty years as a school psychologist. I wrote columns on education for twelve years. I believe I know the answers to the problems in education today o...

This book documents the impact of Stephen Harris’s works in Aboriginal education, Aboriginal learning styles, domains of language use and bilingual-bicultural education. It provides a summary and critique of Stephen Harris's key ideas, particularly those on bilingual-bicultural education. This book also profiles the man, his background, his beliefs and talents. It showcases contributions and personal reflections from Stephen’s family, wife, close colleagues, and many of those influenced by...

This open access book is the first published guide about how to analyse data produced by the EQ-5D, one of the most widely used Patient Reported Outcomes questionnaires world wide. The authors provide practical, clear and comprehensive guidance in five concise chapters. Following an overview of the EQ-5D and its analysis, we describe how the questionnaire data – the EQ-5D profile and EQ VAS – can be analysed in different ways to generate important insights into peoples’ health. We ...

This book provides the first detailed history of the Bilingual Education Program in the Northern Territory of Australia. This ambitious and innovative program began in 1973 and at different times it operated in English and 19 Aboriginal languages in 29 very remote schools. The book draws together the grassroots perspectives of Indigenous and non-Indigenous practitioners and researchers. Each chapter is based on rich practitioner experience, capturing bottom-up aspirations, achievements and...

In this unique and engaging collection, twelve essays celebrate the legacy of one of America's most important playwrights and investigate Williams's enduring effect on America's cultural, theatrical, and literary heritage.Like Faulkner before him, Tennessee Williams gave universal appeal to southern characters and settings. His major plays, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie to A Streetcar Named Desire and Night of the Iguana, con...

This open access book provides an essential guide to value sets for anyone working with EQ-5D-5L data.The EQ-5D-5L is one of the most widely used health related quality of life questionnaires around the world, with applications in clinical trials, population health surveys and routine outcomes measurement. In addition to providing a concise, generic way of describing health, the EQ-5D-5L facilitates the valuation of health and health improvements through its value sets, which play ...