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Comparative analyses of public opinion on education policy in developed countries.Although research has suggested a variety of changes to education policy that have the potential to improve educational outcomes, politicians are often reluctant to implement such evidence-based reforms. Public opinion and pressure by interest groups would seem to have a greater role in shaping education policy th…
Theoretical and factual studies of ways that the rapidly evolving digital economy has changed the structure of different industries, focusing on the software and music industries.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out, first published in 2009, has become a foundational text in the field of digital media and learning. Reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people live and learn with new media in varied settings—at home, in after-school programs, and in online spaces—it presents a flexible and useful framework for understa…
Today educational activities take place not only in school but also in after-school programs, community centers, museums, and online communities and forums. The success and expansion of these out-of-school initiatives depends on our ability to document and assess what works and what doesn't in informal learning, but learning outcomes in these settings are often unpredictable. Goals are open-end…
"A brief introduction to "whiteness"-as a concept, as a phenomenon, as a field of scholarly inquiry-providing a bridge between the world of academic "whiteness studies" and public and activist spaces"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The recognition of faces is a fundamental visual function with importance for social interaction and communication. This volume offers a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary overview of recent work on dynamic faces from both biological and computational perspectives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
In 1854, the British mathematician George Boole presented the idea of a universe the elements of which could be understood in terms of the logic of absence and presence: 0 and 1, all and nothing—the foundation of binary code. The Boolean digits 0 and 1 do not designate a quantity. In the Boolean world, x times x always equals x; all and nothing meet in the formula x = xn. As everything become…
An ambitious project to help economically disadvantaged students develop technical, creative, and analytical skills across a learning ecology that spans school, community, home, and online.
This title provides an extended argument for a syntactic view of NEG raising with consequences for the syntax of negation and negative polarity items.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.