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How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
Written by The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 12, 1999
Price: $13.95
Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.
As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly...
Written by Princeton Review
Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $21.95
College students (120,000 of them) reveal what life is really like at the nation's top schools. This must-have guide gives you college rankings like no other and covers all the essentials -- from academics to social life to financial aid, and everything in between. We also provide you with all the... Read more >
How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
Written by The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 12, 2006
Price: $13.95
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 abusers, gang members, the homeless, and victims of abuse–Gruwell was the first person...
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A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America
Written by Donna Foote
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2008
Price: $24.95
A revealing look inside a national phenomenon, Teach For America, which, since its founding in 1990, has pursued one of the most daring—and controversial—strategies for closing the educational achievement gap between the richest and poorest students in the country.
The story is set in South Los Angeles at Locke High School, an...
183 Memory Tricks to Help You Study Better
Written by Princeton Review
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $12.95
How to Remember Everything: Grades 9-12 teaches high school students HOW to learn. Instead of providing them with long lists of information, we teach students memory tricks and techniques for learning large amounts of information quickly and easily—so that students can remember that information for years to come. Rote memorization doesn’t... Read more >
How to Help Your Kids Read It and Get It!
Written by Susan Zimmermann and Chryse Hutchins
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2003
Price: $14.95
It's simple: If children don't understand what they read, they will never embrace reading. And that limits what they can learn while in school. This fact frightens parents, worries teachers, and ultimately hurts children.
7 Keys to Comprehension is the result of cutting-edge research. It gives parents and teachers—those who aren't already... Read more >
A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level
Written by Sally Shaywitz, M.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $15.95
FOR EVERYONE WHO STRUGGLES TO READ!
Clear, practical, science-based information and advice for successful results
One in five American children has trouble reading. But they are not stupid or lazy. In Overcoming Dyslexia, Dr. Sally Shaywitz, codirector of the Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention and a leader in the... Read more >
Get Ready for Kindergarten
Written by Core Knowledge Foundation
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $15.00
Prepare your child for a lifetime of learning and wonder.
Designed for parents to enjoy with children, filled with opportunities for reading aloud and fostering curiosity, this beautifully illustrated read-aloud anthology offers preschoolers the fundamentals they need to prepare for a happy, productive time in school—and for the rest of their lives... Read more >
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $19.95
In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca’s likably irreverent questioning, he also reveals his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools.
Letters... Read more >
Written by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $15.00
What should your child learn in the sixth grade? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American sixth graders. Featuring sixteen pages of... Read more >
