*Education

This fully-revised second edition offers a complete view of the institutions, people, processes, roles and philosophies found in educational practice in the United States and throughout the world.

This country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries.

The Encyclopedia of Human Development is the first comprehensive, authoritative, and informative reference work that presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts from the fields of psychology, individual and family studies, and education in a way that is not too technical.

This reference includes more than 400 entries from a broad range of topics related to multicultural education, which the authors define as education geared toward reducing bias, ensuring equity, and promoting understanding of the self and others.

The Encyclopedia of Distance Learning Technologies and Applications provides a comprehensive coverage of the evolution of distance learning, educational programs through distance learning, technologies of distance learning, program design and implementation, program delivery methods, distance learning and work force, and assessing effectiveness of distance learning programs.