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Relentless Pursuit
by Donna Foote  Review Advance Praise for Donna Foote’s Relentless Pursuit “Here is skilled, attentive documentary work become an instrument for the reader’s moral and social reflection — educational idealism, its achievements and its tribulations as...
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Hothouse Kids
by Alissa Quart Publisher Comments A devastating indictment of the gifted child myth The effort to produce gifted children through an exhausting regimen of early (and ever-earlier) training has grown into a troubling national phenomenon. With less free playtime and overwhelming pressure...
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American Schools
by Dwight/Cosby Bill Allen Publisher Comments From Bill Cosby, actor, entertainer, and New York Times bestselling author of Fatherhood and Congratulations (Now What?) comes a groundbreaking eBook with the potential to reinvent education in America. Exchanging comedy for community activism, Bill...
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Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds
by Jan Davidson Publisher Comments With all the talk of failing schools these days, we often forget that schools can fail their brightest students too. Gifted children forced into a one size fits all approach to schooling find themselves bored or frustrated, which can lead to...
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Freedom Writers Diary Mti (ebk
by Freedom Writers The Publisher Comments Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students — whose ranks included substance...
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The Essential Conversation
by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Publisher Comments With the insights she has gleaned from her close and subtle observation of parent-teacher conferences, renowned Harvard University professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot has written a wise, useful book about the ways in which parents and teachers can make the...
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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
by Rafe, Esquith Publisher Comments In a Los Angeles neighborhood plagued by guns, gangs, and drugs, there is an exceptional classroom known as Room 56. The fifth graders inside are first-generation immigrants who live in poverty and speak English as a second language. They also play...
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Getting Ready For College
by Polly Berent Publisher Comments Getting Ready for College is the ultimate easy-to-use guide to success for college-bound seniors, first-years, and their parents. Polly Berent answers the questions you didn’t know you would need to ask: • What’s the deal on financial...
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Generation Debt: Why Now Is a Terrible Time to Be Young
by Anya Kamenetz Publisher Comments 'An emerging spokesperson for a new generation passionately and persuasively addresses the grim state of young people today-and tells us how we can, and must, save our future. The nature of youth is to question. So when twenty-four-year-old Anya Kamenetz...
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Broke Diaries
by Angela Nissel Publisher Comments People always say I'm going to look back on these days and laugh -- why put it off? When Angela Nissel found herself struggling financially while in college, instead of sulking, she decided to entertain herself by creating an online journal that...
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Teach with Your Heart
by Erin Gruwell Publisher Comments In this memoir and call to arms, Erin Gruwell, the dynamic young teacher who nurtured a remarkable group of high school students from Long Beach, California, who called themselves the Freedom Writers, picks up where The Freedom Writers Diary (and the...
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High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student
by Jeremy Iversen Publisher Comments It's spring semester at Mirador High in Southern California, and twenty-four-year-old Jeremy Iversen is going deep undercover to deliver the real deal about the dull classes and fast times of American teens today. Trading in his suit and tie for jeans...
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Kaplan GRE Exam Vocabulary Flashcards Flip-O-Matic J to Z
by Kaplan Publisher Comments Flip your way to a higher score on the GRE! The creator of the #1 GRE course, Kaplan knows the words you need to know to score higher on the GRE. GRE Exam Vocabulary Flip-O-Matic is designed to allow you to quiz yourself and to skip over words after you...
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An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962
by William Doyle Publisher Comments Forty years ago, James Meredith tried to integrate the University of Mississippi, and ignited an armed white rebellion in the nation’s heartland. This riveting book re-creates the day the country went to war against itself. An American Insurrection...
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The Myth of Laziness
by Melvin D. Levine Publisher Comments "How many times have you heard a teacher say that your child has tremendous potential ""if only he'd just apply himself"" or ""if only she'd work just a little harder""? How often have you said the same thing to your son or daughter? Or perhaps you have...
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The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom
by James W. Stigler Publisher Comments Comparing math teaching practices in Japan and Germany with those in the United States, two leading researchers offer a surprising new view of teaching and a bold action plan for improving education inside the American classroom. For years our schools...
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The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets To Turning on the Tuned-out Child
by Richard Lavoie Publisher Comments Any child can be motivated to learn. "If he only would apply himself..." "She can do it if she puts her mind to it." "He just doesn't seem to care." "She's just not trying." Motivation is the key to learning. But very few parents and teachers have an...
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Experience And Education
by John Dewey Publisher Comments Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey'...
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Bilingual Edge, The
by Kendall King Publisher Comments It's no secret that parents want their children to have the lifelong cultural and intellectual advantages that come from being bilingual. Parents spend millions of dollars every year on classes, computer programs, and toys, all of which promise to help...
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The Excellent 11: Qualities Teachers, and Parents Use to Motivate, Inspire, and Educate Children
by Ron Clark Publisher Comments Ron Clark's THE EXCELLENT 11 contains eleven sections, each with a theme directly related to teaching and raising children. In each section, the author gives advice, tells stories of his experiences, and explains the importance of each theme within the...
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