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Waiting for "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools (Participant Guide Media) by Karl Weber Publisher Comments Each book includes a $15 gift card from DonorsChoose.org to give to a classroom in need. The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop-outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future. By... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Engaged Campus: Certificates, Minors, and Majors as the New Community Engagement (Community Engagement in Higher Education) by Dan W. (edt) Butin Publisher Comments The Engaged Campus offers a set of emerging best practices and articulation of critical issues for faculty and administrators committed to developing, strengthening, or expanding majors or minors in community engagement at their respective institutions.... (read more) Your price: $33.25 New - Trade Paper
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Unequal by Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality by Wayne Au Synopsis Unequal By Design critically examines high-stakes standardized testing in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students, teachers, and communities negatively affected by such testing. This thoughtful analysis traces standardized testing's... (read more) Your price: $49.75 New - Trade Paper
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Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson and Mike Bryan Staff Pick If you're feeling crushed by the grim news reports of our ongoing, never-ending overseas warfare, replenish your spirit with Stones into Schools. This remarkable book from the author of Three Cups of Tea will pull you out of your seat and send you into... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Declining By Degrees (05 Edition) by Richard H. Hersh Publisher Comments Two decades ago A Nation at Risk sounded a national alarm on K-12 education. Now, an equally urgent alarm is being sounded for higher education in America. In Declining by Degrees, leading authors and educators such as Tom Wolfe, Jim Fallows, and Jay... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us by Mike Rose Synopsis In the tradition of Jonathan Kozol, this little book is driven by big questions. What does it mean to be educated? What is intelligence? How should we think about intelligence, education, and opportunity in an open society? Why is a commitment to the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Synchronous Trainer's Survival Guide: Facilitating Successful Live and Online Courses, Meetings, and Events by Jennifer Hofmann Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-126) and index.... (read more) Your price: $42.00 New - Trade Paper
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Teaching and Assessing 21st Century Skills by Robert J. Marzano Publisher Comments As the 21st century unfolds, the pace of change in the world is accelerating while education in the United States remains stagnant or, at best, progresses in isolated pockets. Concern over the effects of an inadequate education system on the nation's... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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The One-Stop Guide to Implementing Rti: Academic and Behavioral Interventions, K-12 by Maryln Appelbaum Publisher Comments This strategy-based book has all the implementation tools under one cover Appelbaum takes all the research and converts it into an easy-to-read book. There's a how-to chapter on collaboration to create powerful RTI teams, a chapter on how to... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Trade Paper
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Classroom Assessment Techniques by Thomas A. Angelo Publisher Comments This revised and greatly expanded edition of the 1988 handbook offers teachers at all levels how-to advise on classroom assessment, including: What classroom assessment entails and how it works. How to plan, implement, and analyze assessment projects... (read more) List Price $51.25 Your price: $36.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Against Common Sense (2ND 09 Edition) by Kevin K. Kumashiro Publisher Comments The phrase teaching for social justice is often used, but not always explained. What does it really mean to teach for social justice? What are the implications for anti-oppressive teaching across different areas of the curriculum? Drawing on his own... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $27.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Teaching and Learning in a Diverse World: Multicultural Education for Young Children (Early Childhood Education) by Patricia G. Ramsey Publisher Comments This classic text continues to define what multicultural education means in all kinds of settings: "The Third Edition includes activities to challenge children's assumptions on: Racial Bias, Social Class and Consumerism, Perspectives on Cultures and the... (read more) Your price: $33.25 New - Trade Paper
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Assessing Academic Programs in Higher Education by Mary J. Allen Publisher Comments Higher education professionals have moved from teaching- to learning-centered models for designing and assessing courses and curricula. Faculty work collaboratively to identify learning objectives and assessment strategies, set standards, design... (read more) List Price $45.25 Your price: $32.00 Used - Hardcover
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Embedded Formative Assessment by Dylan William Publisher Comments If we are to maintain our status as one of the world's leading economies and secure our economic futures, and if we want our students to thrive in the impossibly complex, unpredictable world of the 21st century, we must concentrate on increasing... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Testing Trap: How State Writing Assessments Control Learning by George Hillocks Publisher Comments Hardly a day goes by without talk of testing students to higher standards as a means to improve our education system. Hillocks puts this logic to the test. Through interviews with over three hundred teachers and administrators, Hillocks examines whether... (read more) Your price: $29.50 New - Trade Paper
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Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto Publisher Comments John Taylor Gatto’s Weapons of Mass Instruction, now available in paperback, focuses on mechanisms of traditional education that cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model with DVD by Jana Echevarria Publisher Comments One of the most influential books in the field in years! Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP® Model presents a coherent, specific, field-tested model of sheltered instruction that specifies the features of a high... (read more) List Price $59.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The New Taxonomy of Educational Objectives by Robert J. Marzano Publisher Comments It's been more than 50 years since Benjamin Bloom published his Taxonomy of Educational Objectives and Bloom's taxonomy is one of the most widely known and used models in education. While still useful, Bloom's taxonomy doesn't represent the most current... (read more) Your price: $36.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through: Changing School Supervisory Practice One Teacher at a Time by Carolyn Downey Publisher Comments This book puts into perspective and practices the vision of what supervision should be. It is a model of principal-teacher interaction and redefines the professional relationships of classroom supervisory practice. The Downey approach attempts to change... (read more) List Price $42.25 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Testing for Language Teachers (2ND 03 Edition) by Arthur Hughes Publisher Comments This is a second edition of this classic text on language testing. Over the years the first edition has established itself as a core text on many ESL teacher training programs. There is no other text that is as comprehensive and accessible as Testing for... (read more) List Price $38.25 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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