The Directory of Executive Recruiters, 2005-2006: The Most Comprehensive Resource of Executive Search Professionals Available

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Published since 1971, the famous Red Book lists 13,250 recruiters at 5,600 search firms with all the contact information you need to start networking immediately with executive recruiters: address, phone, fax, e-mail and web addresses. New for 2005: the famous Recruiter Red Book goes online! With your purchase youll gain access to the entire Directory on the web with updates that keep your edition always up to date for up to a full year! Each listing is painstakingly indexed for fast, easy, and reliable use. Youll target the right recruiter through hundreds of recruiter hiring specialties, management functions, industries and geographic locations. The Directory of Executive Recruiters is constantly updated and each year connects several thousand job-seekers to the right recruiter. It may no longer be the best kept secret in Executive employment!

Web Site Source Book 2005: A Guide To Major U.S. Businesses, Organizations, Agencies, Institutions, and Other Information Resources on the World Wide Web (Web Site Source Book)

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The Directory of Business Information Resources 2005 (Directory of Business Information Resources)

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Educator and activist Paula Ressler knows from experience that students who are marginalized because of sexual orientation, gender, or appearance spend much of their time in high school just trying to survive. The consequences of ignoring these issues can be devastating. In this book she demonstrates how the drama workshop can be a powerful tool to facilitate discussion about topics that have long been suppressed in traditional educational venues and mired in taboo and confusion. She offers an approach to teaching and learning in which participants acquire new knowledge based on experience, not simply transmission.

The book follows Dr. Ressler's practice since 1988, describing the innovative drama work she has done in various educational settings to address lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) issues. Her practice has integrated educational drama theory; feminist, multicultural, and liberatory theory and pedagogy; and progressive learning and language arts theory. Her particular strength is providing practical, effective, and stimulating strategies for incorporating drama across the curriculum, from English, social studies, art, music, and dance, to physical education, health, and guidance groups.

Teachers need no drama background or extensive knowledge about sexual orientation and gender identity to use this book. Each chapter provides an introduction to the type of drama presented - from simple role plays through complex and extended pieces - along with educational objectives, rationales, resources, and materials needed. Read Ressler and see how transformative drama can be - both academically challenging and personally rewarding for all participants, whether they are teaching or learning about sexual orientation and gender diversity.

Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century

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The history of lies and deceit
Both sides hate it.. bravo!
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Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century
Jeffrey P. Moran
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ASIN: 067400227X

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Sex education, since its advent at the dawn of the twentieth century, has provoked the hopes and fears of generations of parents, educators, politicians, and reformers. On its success or failure seems to hinge the moral fate of the nation and its future citizens. But whether we argue over condom distribution to teenagers or the use of an anti-abortion curriculum in high schools, we rarely question the basic premise--that adolescents need to be educated about sex. How did we come to expect the public schools to manage our children's sexuality? More important, what is it about the adolescent that arouses so much anxiety among adults?

Teaching Sex travels back over the past century to trace the emergence of the "sexual adolescent" and the evolution of the schools' efforts to teach sex to this captive pupil. Jeffrey Moran takes us on a fascinating ride through America's sexual mores: from a time when young men were warned about the crippling effects of masturbation, to the belief that schools could and should train adolescents in proper courtship and parenting techniques, to the reemergence of sexual abstention brought by the AIDS crisis. We see how the political and moral anxieties of each era found their way into sex education curricula, reflecting the priorities of the elders more than the concerns of the young.

Moran illuminates the aspirations and limits of sex education and the ability of public authority to shape private behavior. More than a critique of public health policy, Teaching Sex is a broad cultural inquiry into America's understanding of adolescence, sexual morality, and social reform.

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The history of lies and deceit.......2006-07-03

Teaching Sex begins with the "invention of the adolescent" by G. Stanley Hall with the publication of his two-volume book in 1904. Jeffrey P. Moran covers the war between the many factions in the "sexual revolution" and the on-going struggle to educate children about sex. And to indoctrinate the child in "proper sexual conduct," as well.

My experience with formal sexual education began in 1969 at a rural Missouri sixth grade classroom. It continued until I graduated from high school, and then Marine Corps boot camp had a segment on venereal diseases. My formal "sex ed" training continues to this day with mandatory "sexual harassment training"--all of this education didn't meet my needs. Why?

Teaching Sex explains part of it--that "sex ed" is a compromise between several mutually hostile factions. Moran documents the lies and miss-statements of these factions.

Moran's conclusion: sexual education has been a failure. I have to agree. Read this book and get aquainted with the many different aspects of Teaching Sex.

Both sides hate it.. bravo!.......2002-06-30

If there's any more tiresome or useless squabble than America's endless war between advocates of abstinence and sex education, I can't imagine it. If this isn't depressing enough, Moran shows us today's moralist-vs-programmer quarrel is exactly the same that's been going on since 1910. Moran's history is great, but his last chapter is priceless for its laceration of both sides for their destructive obsession with what is a trivial argument--what we ludicrously call "teenage sex" is really a reflection of adult sexual behaviors, sex with adults, and socioeconomic status school teachings cannot erase. Schools: set the bowl of condoms next to the pet-your-dog-not-your-date chastity brochures and understand that the kids already know this "mixed message" accurately sums up America's sadly confused adult attitudes toward sex. Moran delineates this confusion brilliantly, and it's a sign of our stultified moralistic climate that his plague-on-both-your-houses treatise isn't a best seller and ticket to talk-show stardom.

Good Resource.......2001-02-16

Jeffery Moran has done an excellent job of charting the history of sex education in America with particular attention to 19th and early 20th century cultural barriers to frank discussion. His research was clearly exhaustive and I found the first two-thirds of the book to be worthwhile but wordy. The real gem of Moran's work is the last third of the book which deals with the 1950s to the present day. It is very easy to chart our contemporary situation and approach to this topic by reading the history of the last few decades in particular. Presenting the arguments of the pro and con sex education elements was very enlightening considering the ways in which the same arguments have been recycled again and again. Most revelatory was the numerous evidence Moran presents showing that sex education in its current form neither increases or decreases age at first sexual experience or other risk behaviors unless the individual student in particularly future oriented. A very worthwhile book and important for educators and parents.

Must know information for sex educators.......2000-12-23

Review by David S. Hall, Ph.D.

The Author:

Jeffrey P. Moran is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Kansas. As a young historian, his research leading to this book should serve him well in the "publish or perish" academic environment. It is a comprehensive summary of a vast and complex subject.

The Contents:

Moran looks at the 20th century, wherein adolescence is invented by the renowned G. Stanley Hall, a psychologist and college president. Hall was 60 when his 1904 book "Adolescence" was published. It was the result of years of research and much creative interpretation. This was a time in the cultural development of the U.S. where the period between puberty and marriage was increasing and youth were becoming aware of their "separateness as a group from adult culture". Hall, a product of the Victorian era, built his ideas of adolescence on a solid foundation of 19th century morality, i.e. chastity, self-denial, and especially avoidance of "self-pollution".

The end of the 19th century also saw well over half of school age American children enrolled in public or private schools, thus their separation from the adult world was becoming more complete. While puberty was occurring earlier, marriage was occurring later, as late as 29-31 for college graduates. Chastity during this time of life was seen as the great evolutionary factor that led to a higher civilization. The racial and class superiority this proclaimed was not overlooked in this era of high immigration. Moran's description of this interpretation of Darwinism is enlightening. Broadly stated, "repression was the price that the race had to pay to retain its superiority."

In parallel to Hall's work, Dr. Prince Morrow published "Social Diseases and Marriage". This book, and Morrow's hard work, attempted to overcome the denial about, and unwillingness to speak about, venereal diseases. While many in that era believed that venereal diseases were the proper wages of sin (not unlike the AIDS crisis of the late 1980's) a movement toward social hygiene was growing to protect the innocent victims, the wives and children of the infected sinners. Along the way, scientists and educators joined forces to use the public education system to do what the family and church were failing to do, provide social hygiene education. This was not sex education, but fear based measures, suppression of sexual materials (Comstock, et al), and suppression of prostitution (Mann Act). The Victorian idea that a child's pure mind must not be contaminated with any ideas or visions of sex included all of life until marriage. The conspiracy of silence was strong.

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This book provides teachers with a thorough analysis of the various ways in which secondary school pupils construct their gender identities in the classroom.

Experiencing School Mathematics: Teaching Styles, Sex and Setting

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Experiencing School Mathematics: Teaching Styles, Sex and Setting
Jo Boaler
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One of the most important books on education this decade.......1999-06-18

This book is one of the most important books to appear on education this decade. It presents, in a highly readable fashion, the results of a carefully conducted three-year study of the teaching of mathematics in two high schools. Through carefully conducted analyses of interviews with students, observations of lessons, and achievement test data, it provides evidence of the limitations of 'traditional' teaching methods, and a resounding endorsement of the approaches of 'reform' schools. Anyone who cares about the education of young people should read this book. (Winner of the Standing Conference on Studies in Education's prize for the best book on Education, 1998)

Speak Softly & Carry Your Own Gym Key: A Female High School Principal's Guide to Survival

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Speak Softly & Carry Your Own Gym Key: A Female High School Principal's Guide to Survival
Anna T. Hicks
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New Voices in the Field: The Work Lives of First-Year Assistant Principals

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"Funny, somber, incisive, touching...both men and women can relate to this totally engrossing account of what may be the most difficult job in education. Written by an outstanding educator who's sensitive, succinct, and witty, this book is a facinating journaey through the absurdities, triumphs, and tragedies of the modern American high school. I love this book!" Leonard O. Pellicer Chair, Educational Leadership and Policies University of South Carolina Written for men and for women, this new guide shows you what it really means--and what it takes--to be an effective educational leader. Hicks presents a practical, poignant, and sometimes painful look at the role of a woman principal at a large, middle class high school. Eloquently written and easy-to-read, this book gives you insights into the special challenges she faced during her four years in the principalship and how she met those challenges. Includes observations on: * How to deal with free, mostly worthless advice * Why you can't please everyone * How to make inroads into the brotherhood * How to take care of your real customers--your students * Where to look for help and good advice * When to say when, and how to say it Hicks raises issues that are universal in scope. Practitioners at all levels will relate to her reflective look at the high school principalship, and academics will gain insights from her practitioner's perspective. No matter what your position on the "gender issue," you'll find enlightenment here.

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Sex Education In Secondary Schools
Jennifer Harrison
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Girls in the Middle: Working to Succeed in School

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Girls in the Middle: Working to Succeed in School
Jody Cohen , Sukey Blanc , and Pa.) Research for Action (Organization : Philadelphia
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An Annotated Bibliography on Gender in Secondary Education: Research from Selected Commonwealth Countries

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An Annotated Bibliography on Gender in Secondary Education: Research from Selected Commonwealth Countries

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This annotated bibliography brings together the currently available documentation on gender and education in five countries–Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, India, and Pakistan–with special emphasis on secondary education.

The bibliographies include both published and unpublished titles from the United Nations, other multilateral agencies, NGOs, and research institutions. Where possible the location or source of the particular entry is identified to help readers source the original document.

The volume should be useful for a range of users: researchers, policymakers, planners, teacher educators, government and non-government education managers, as well as activists.

Breaking the Cycle: Gender, Literacy, and Learning

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Breaking the Cycle: Gender, Literacy, and Learning
Lynne Alvine , and Linda Cullum
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Middle and Secondary Classroom Management: Lessons from Research and Practice

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The research is in on how gender bias affects literacy learning, and now it's time to put that research into practice. It's time to break the cycle of stereotyping that's inhibiting our girls' literacy development and help all of our students become more secure and discerning readers and writers.

In this important new book, Lynne Alvine and Linda Cullum provide real examples of classroom situations in which gender bias occurs and, more important, specific suggestions for addressing gender inequity in school contexts. You'll gain new insight into how reading impacts girls' lives and the importance of encouraging girls to take their reading personally. You'll also discover suggestions for working with nonmainstream girls, along with commentary on the underground literary phenomenon of "zining." Best of all, there are lots of suggested readings, teaching approaches, course syllabi, and other specific resources and strategies for transforming the secondary curriculum. Plus an annotated bibliography provides more than one hundred resources on gender-fair schooling and literacy learning.

"As English language arts teachers," state the authors, "it is our responsibilityand our privilegeto recognize the ways that literacy can help young women and men. . . . By becoming aware of the messages our culture sends through reading, writing, and visual representations, students can move beyond cultural assumptions. They can use their emerging literacy to expand rather than to circumscribe their horizons. This awareness is a gift that teachers can give to their studentsand to themselves."

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