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Ahead of the Curve: The Power of Assessment to Transform Teaching & Learning by Douglas Reeves Synopsis Ahead of the Curve provides a comprehensive view of the challenges of assessmentfrom a classroom, system, and leadership standpointand examines the many perspectives of effective assessment design and implementation. The distinguished contributors to... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Brain Matters: Translating Research into Classroom Practice (2nd Edition) by Patricia Wolfe Publisher Comments Everyone agrees that what we do in schools should be based on what we know about how the brain learns. Until recently, however, we have had few clues to unlock the secrets of the brain. Now, research from the neurosciences has greatly improved our... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $24.81 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry by Todd Farley Synopsis The No Child Left Behind Act uses the phrase scientifically-based research more than 100 times when discussing standardized testing, but Making the Grades raises serious questions about the validity of many large-scale assessments simply by describing... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fair Isn't Always Equal : Assessing and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom (06 Edition) by Rick Wormeli Publisher Comments Differentiated instruction is a nice idea, but what happens when it comes to assessing and grading students? What's both fair and leads to real student learning? Fair Isn't Always Equal answers that question and much more. Rick Wormeli offers the latest... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Teaching To Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks Publisher Comments After reading Teaching to Transgress I am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that makes her radical and loving. -- Paulo Freire In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Why School? : Reclaiming Education for All of Us (09 Edition) by Mike Rose Book News Annotation In the tradition of Jonathan Kozol, this little (4.5x7.25") book is driven by big questions. What does it mean to be educated? How should we think about intelligence, education, and opportunity in an open society? Why is a commitment to the public... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Hardcover
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Practical Research: Planning and Design by Paul D. Leedy Publisher Comments Written in uncommonly engaging and elegant prose, Practical Research: Planning and Design is a "do-it-yourself, understand-it-yourself” manual designed to help students in any discipline understand the fundamental structure of quality... (read more) Your price: $83.60 New - Trade Paper
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Dancing on a Shifting Carpet: Reinventing Traditional Schooling for the 21st Century Synopsis The role of educational leaders has changed radically as countries attempt to transform their education systems to prepare young people to function in today's world of rapid technological and social change, economic globalization, and increased migration... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper
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Why Our Children Can't Read and What We Can Do about It: A Scientific Revolution in Reading by Diane Mcguinness Publisher Comments Drawing on 25 years of cutting-edge research, the author presents scientific support for a new method of teaching children how to read that provides a real solution to the national literacy crises.... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Trade Paper
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Math Problem-Solving Packets: Grade 2: Mini-Lessons for the Interactive Whiteboard with Reproducible Packets That Target and Teach Must-Know Math Skil by Carole Greenes Publisher Comments Help students get a firm grasp of key problem-solving strategies with this collection of reproducible packets that give them meaningful practice in essential number concepts and skills. Step-by-step mini-lessons encourage students to think about how to... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Special Educator's Comprehensive Guide to 301 Diagnostic Tests by Roger Pierangelo Publisher Comments This important resource is an update of the best-selling book The Special Educator's Resource Guide to 109 Diagnostic Tests. The greatly expanded second edition contains 301 new and enhanced tests, which are vital to understanding assessment in special... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $32.95 New - Trade Paper
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240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know: Grade 5: 24 Ready-To-Reproduce Packets That Make Vocabulary Building Fun & Effective by Linda Ward Beech Publisher Comments Build word power with these 24 ready-to-reproduce, 3-page lessons. Each lesson includes research-based activities that tap students' prior knowledge for greater understanding and give them multiple encounters with new words so they really remember them... (read more) Your price: $12.99 New - Trade Paper
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Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing (Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism) by Paula Mathieu Publisher Comments Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing, edited by Paula Mathieu, Steve Parks, and Tiffany Rousculp, represents the first attempt to gather the myriad of community and college publishing projects, providing not only... (read more) Your price: $81.50 New - Hardcover
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Math Problem-Solving Packets: Grade 3: Mini-Lessons for the Interactive Whiteboard with Reproducible Packets That Target and Teach Must-Know Math Skil by Carole Greenes Publisher Comments Help students get a firm grasp of key problem-solving strategies with this collection of reproducible packets that give them meaningful practice in essential number concepts and skills. Step-by-step mini-lessons encourage students to think about how to... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Trade Paper
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Ethic of Excellence : Building a Culture of Craftsmanship With Students (03 Edition) by Ron Berger Publisher Comments Drawing from his own remarkable experience as a veteran classroom teacher (still in the classroom), Ron Berger gives us a vision of educational reform that transcends standards, curriculum, and instructional strategies.... (read more) List Price $27.75 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Teaching Other People's Children : Literacy and Learning in a Bilingual Classroom (99 Edition) by Cynthia Ballenger Publisher Comments What happens when a teacher does not share a cultural background with her students? In this thoroughly engaging account, one North American teacher describes her three years teaching Haitian children in an inner-city preschool. Focusing on classroom... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Manhattan GMAT Geometry, Guide 4 [With Web Access] (Manhattan GMAT Preparation Guide: Geometry) by Alex (con) Cappy Publisher Comments The Geometry Guide equips you with powerful tools to grasp and solve every geometry problem tested on the GMAT. It covers not only fundamental geometric principles and techniques but also nuanced strategies for tackling tricky questions involving... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Trade Paper
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Comprehension Skills: Short Passages for Close Reading: Grade 2 by Linda Beech Publisher Comments According to the Common Core State Standards, students should be able to read closely to determine what a text says explicitly, make logical references from it, and cite specific textual evidence to support conclusions drawn from the text. Each of the 40... (read more) Your price: $10.99 New - Trade Paper
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240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know: Grade 4: 24 Ready-To-Reproduce Packets That Make Vocabulary Building Fun & Effective by Linda Beech Publisher Comments Build word power with these 24 ready-to-reproduce, 3-page lessons. Each lesson includes research-based activities that tap students' prior knowledge for greater understanding and give them multiple encounters with new words so they really remember them... (read more) Your price: $12.99 New - Trade Paper
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Common Formative Assessments: How to Connect Standards-Based Instruction and Assessment by Larry Ainsworth Publisher Comments A powerful resource. The authors clarify the terminology of assessment with painstaking precision and offer specific, practical steps to help educators develop their assessment literacy. --Richard DuFour Educational Author and Consultant Highly... (read more) List Price $42.25 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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