Positive comments from some recent users of this book include: Most schools
are full of documents and data... Dr Slater
is among the first to show how they can
be used to compare what
is said
on paper and in interviews... The results will shock you... Dr Slater
is a successful
high school teacher and an award winning author... and here
's why... Fantastic little book, punches well above its weight... Makes it seem so simple... the art of the genius... As an advocate of the What Works
agenda, I think this book really
is a wake - up call... A fantastic insight into the potential for using documents in research... Nails twenty years of research in twenty minutes... Worth every dime... Every student in my class (6th form) has
been told to buy this book... and it
's easy to see why... Shines a great big light
on the power of documents in research...
Surely this
is the best book in its field... First class... I kept referring to this book in my presentation last week and the audience
was ecstatic... Education research, usually has little effect
on me... Until now... This book
is formidable... Crushes the concept that education research
is rubbish... fantastic insight... Blows you away with its power and simplicity... Huge reality check, senior school managers at good schools tell the truth, other
's don't, won't or can't, and their students suffer.
Given the
high costs and dubious benefits to
be expected from continuing
on the lock»em - up path, and given the encouraging results of many youth oriented prevention and intervention strategies, a significant public investment
is surely warranted both to strengthen and expand a youth oriented prevention
agenda and to step up the effort to refine and improve
on prevention's promise.