"This is a highly recommended and valuable resource both for those seeking support for their self-coaching journey as well as professional and experienced coaches who will find in its pages much-needed inspiration and ideas to further develop their capacity to beneficially impact their clients’ lives."

"This collection of policy research papers illustrates the methodological and practical challenges of multi-state policy research. Most education policy is set by individual states. Therefore cross-state comparisons are useful for examining policy implementation and outcomes. This book advocates for more multi-year and other comparative multi-state policy analyses. The chapters illustrate a variety of research designs and methodological challenges in state-level policy research and offer rigorous models that would be useful for further investigations. Although individual chapters could be useful for teaching and senior scholars, I see the book as helpful for early career policy scholars engaging in the research design process because of the excellent examples of quality research. The suggestions for improving quantitative models are well argued, and the studies that used more constructivist or mixed-methods approaches illustrate the feasibility of important new approaches to government policy research."
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"Professor Perez paints a portrait of undocumented students that is as inspiring as it is tragic. We ARE Americans emphasizes the need to rethink current immigration policies to be more inclusive and welcome immigrants as equal citizens who contribute to making America great.”

“[The authors] have used an innovative format to describe the issues, concerns, and pitfalls facing those seeking to, or just beginning to, join the ranks of teaching or research faculty. While those entering the faculty are the authors’ primary target audience, many of their points are also of value to those seeking to enter administrative positions at colleges, and universities. In fact, anyone who wants to work in higher education and wants to know the issues facing faculty should take this book in hand and give it a quick read. In just under 150 pages the authors, of course, do not get deeply into any subject, but they hit the mark so many times and in such an entertaining and succinct way that readers will feel well informed when they finish. This book will be a welcome and valuable addition to the bookshelves of all graduate students and new faculty. We plan to buy one of these for each of our incoming faculty and doctoral students. Take a look. It’s a wonderful read, a fast one, and available at a discount for bulk purchases.”
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