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Your Child's Growing Mind
Your Child's Growing Mind
Written by Jane Healy
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307788948
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Your Child's Growing Mind
Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence
Written by Jane Healy


Format: eBook
On Sale: April 20, 2011
Price: $11.99

The completely updated and expanded version of the 1987 classic hailed by parents and educators everywhere.


From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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Your First Year As a High School Teacher
Your First Year As a High School Teacher
Written by Lynne Marie Rominger, Suzanne Packard Laughrea and Natalie Elkin
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780761529699
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Your First Year As a High School Teacher
Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful Professional
Written by Lynne Marie Rominger, Suzanne Packard Laughrea and Natalie Elkin


Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2001
Price: $18.95

Survive & Thrive in the Classroom From Day One!
Teaching high school students is the toughest job you'll ever love. Of course, often it is an acquired love. You must learn to manage your students' education and play parent, counselor, police officer, and mentor. Wow! Now relax—it doesn't have to be overwhelming... Read more >
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The Price of Admission
The Price of Admission
Written by Daniel Golden
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400097975
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The Price of Admission
How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
Written by Daniel Golden


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $15.99

Every spring thousands of middle-class and lower-income high-school seniors learn that they have been rejected by America’s most exclusive colleges. What they may never learn is how many candidates like themselves have been passed over in favor of wealthy white students with lesser credentials—children of alumni, big donors, or celebrities.

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The Unschooling Handbook
The Unschooling Handbook
Written by Mary Griffith
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307489708
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The Unschooling Handbook
How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom
Written by Mary Griffith


Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2010
Price: $12.99

To Unschoolers, Learning Is As Natural As Breathing
Did you know that a growing percentage of home schoolers are becoming unschoolers? The unschooling movement is founded on the principle that children learn best when they pursue their own natural curiosities and interests. Without bells, schedules, and rules about what to do and... Read more >
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The Historian's Craft
The Historian's Craft
Written by Marc Bloch
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780394705125
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The Historian's Craft
Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
Written by Marc Bloch


Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1964
Price: $9.56

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The New Cool
The New Cool
Written by Neal Bascomb
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307588906
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The New Cool
A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts
Written by Neal Bascomb


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.00

That Monday afternoon, in high-school gyms across America, kids were battling for the only glory American culture seems to want to dispense to the young these days: sports glory.  But at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California, in a gear-cluttered classroom, a different type of “cool” was brewing.  A physics...

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Feel-Bad Education
And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling
Written by Alfie Kohn


Format: eBook
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $15.00

Mind-opening writing on what kids need from school, from one of education’s most outspoken voices
 
Almost no writer on schools asks us to question our fundamental assumptions about education and motivation as boldly as Alfie Kohn. The Washington Post says that “teachers and parents who encounter Kohn and his thoughts come away... Read more >
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No Easy Answer
No Easy Answer
Written by Sally Smith
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780553354508
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No Easy Answer
The Learning Disabled Child at Home and at School
Written by Sally Smith


Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1995
Price: $23.00

Parents and teachers of learning disabled children have tumed to Sally Smith's No Easy Answers for information, advice, and comfort for more than fifteen years.  In this revised, trade paperback edition of the latest information on learning disabilities in a clear, honest, and accessible way. This completely updated edition contains new chapters... Read more >
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The Shame of the Nation
The Shame of the Nation
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307339416
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The Shame of the Nation
The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Written by Jonathan Kozol


Format: eBook
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $13.99

“The nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we’re committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable.”

Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly... Read more >
Cool Colleges
Cool Colleges
Written by Donald Asher
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781580088398
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Cool Colleges
For the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different
Written by Donald Asher


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2007
Price: $21.99

Fully revised since the first edition, COOL COLLEGES covers the most exciting schools in the U.S. and Canada, with a new chapter on eco schools, an update on tuition-free schools, and the total low-down on the so-called top-ranked schools. Are you hyper-intelligent? Self-directed? A late-bloomer? Or just different? Then you need... Read more >
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