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Relentless Pursuit
A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America
Written by Donna Foote
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
When Locke High School opened its doors in 1967, the residents of Watts celebrated it as a sign of the changes promised by Los Angeles. But four decades later, first-year Teach for America recruits Rachelle, Phillip, Hrag, and Taylor are greeted by a school that looks more like a prison, with... Read more >
A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America
Written by Donna Foote
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
When Locke High School opened its doors in 1967, the residents of Watts celebrated it as a sign of the changes promised by Los Angeles. But four decades later, first-year Teach for America recruits Rachelle, Phillip, Hrag, and Taylor are greeted by a school that looks more like a prison, with... Read more >
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Relentless Pursuit
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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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Relentless Pursuit
Written by Donna Foote
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2008
Price: $14.95
When Locke High School opened its doors in 1967, the residents of Watts celebrated it as a sign of the changes promised by Los Angeles. But four decades later, first-year Teach for America recruits Rachelle, Phillip, Hrag, and Taylor are greeted by a school that looks more like a prison, with... Read more >
Written by Donna Foote
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2008
Price: $14.95
When Locke High School opened its doors in 1967, the residents of Watts celebrated it as a sign of the changes promised by Los Angeles. But four decades later, first-year Teach for America recruits Rachelle, Phillip, Hrag, and Taylor are greeted by a school that looks more like a prison, with... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Flickering Mind
Saving Education from the False Promise of Technology
Written by Todd Oppenheimer
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.95
The Flickering Mind, by National Magazine Award winner Todd Oppenheimer, is a landmark account of the failure of technology to improve our schools and a call for renewed emphasis on what really works.
American education faces an unusual moment of crisis. For decades, our schools have been beaten down by a series... Read more >
Saving Education from the False Promise of Technology
Written by Todd Oppenheimer
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.95
The Flickering Mind, by National Magazine Award winner Todd Oppenheimer, is a landmark account of the failure of technology to improve our schools and a call for renewed emphasis on what really works.
American education faces an unusual moment of crisis. For decades, our schools have been beaten down by a series... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Case Against Homework
How Homework Is Hurting Children and What Parents Can Do About It
Written by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $13.95
Does assigning fifty math problems accomplish any more than assigning five? Is memorizing word lists the best way to increase vocabulary—especially when it takes away from reading time? And what is the real purpose behind those devilish dioramas?
The time our children spend doing homework has skyrocketed in recent years. Parents... Read more >
How Homework Is Hurting Children and What Parents Can Do About It
Written by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $13.95
Does assigning fifty math problems accomplish any more than assigning five? Is memorizing word lists the best way to increase vocabulary—especially when it takes away from reading time? And what is the real purpose behind those devilish dioramas?
The time our children spend doing homework has skyrocketed in recent years. Parents... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Case Against Homework
How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It
Written by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $13.95
Does assigning fifty math problems accomplish any more than assigning five? Is memorizing word lists the best way to increase vocabulary—especially when it takes away from reading time? And what is the real purpose behind those devilish dioramas?
The time our children spend doing homework has skyrocketed in recent years. Parents... Read more >
How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It
Written by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $13.95
Does assigning fifty math problems accomplish any more than assigning five? Is memorizing word lists the best way to increase vocabulary—especially when it takes away from reading time? And what is the real purpose behind those devilish dioramas?
The time our children spend doing homework has skyrocketed in recent years. Parents... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Flickering Mind
Saving Education from the False Promise of Technology
Written by Todd Oppenheimer
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $15.95
The Flickering Mind, by National Magazine Award winner Todd Oppenheimer, is a landmark account of the failure of technology to improve our schools and a call for renewed emphasis on what really works.
American education faces an unusual moment of crisis. For decades, our schools have been beaten down by a series... Read more >
Saving Education from the False Promise of Technology
Written by Todd Oppenheimer
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $15.95
The Flickering Mind, by National Magazine Award winner Todd Oppenheimer, is a landmark account of the failure of technology to improve our schools and a call for renewed emphasis on what really works.
American education faces an unusual moment of crisis. For decades, our schools have been beaten down by a series... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Failing Our Kids
How We Are Ruining Our Public Schools
Written by Charles Ungerleider
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2004
Price: $16.95
Our public schools are in danger of collapse, and if they do, we will all pay the price
Healthy public schools are essential for a healthy economy and creating informed citizens. But we are neglecting our schools in a perversely malicious way: making impossible demands on them, strangling them financially, creating trivial... Read more >
How We Are Ruining Our Public Schools
Written by Charles Ungerleider
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2004
Price: $16.95
Our public schools are in danger of collapse, and if they do, we will all pay the price
Healthy public schools are essential for a healthy economy and creating informed citizens. But we are neglecting our schools in a perversely malicious way: making impossible demands on them, strangling them financially, creating trivial... Read more >
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I Can Show You I Care
Compassionate Touch for Children
Written by Susan Cotta
Illustrated by Gregory Crawford
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2003
Price: $16.95
This full-color picture book written for school age children shows the famous Upledger Technique's 'Healing Hands' program at work with children. Conducted at schools around the country, the program teaches children—at a young age—the importance of compassion and caring for others. Children have shown remarkable behavioral improvements after participating in this... Read more >
Compassionate Touch for Children
Written by Susan Cotta
Illustrated by Gregory Crawford
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2003
Price: $16.95
This full-color picture book written for school age children shows the famous Upledger Technique's 'Healing Hands' program at work with children. Conducted at schools around the country, the program teaches children—at a young age—the importance of compassion and caring for others. Children have shown remarkable behavioral improvements after participating in this... Read more >
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Breaking Out
VMI and the Coming of Women
Written by Laura Fairchild Brodie
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2001
Price: $14.00
On July 26, 1996, the United States Supreme Court nullified the single-sex admissions policy of the Virginia Military Institute, the last all-male military college in America. Capturing the voices of female and male cadets, administrators, faculty, and alumni, Laura Brodie tells the story of the Institute's intense planning for the inclusion... Read more >
VMI and the Coming of Women
Written by Laura Fairchild Brodie
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2001
Price: $14.00
On July 26, 1996, the United States Supreme Court nullified the single-sex admissions policy of the Virginia Military Institute, the last all-male military college in America. Capturing the voices of female and male cadets, administrators, faculty, and alumni, Laura Brodie tells the story of the Institute's intense planning for the inclusion... Read more >
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Children Who Are Not Yet Peaceful
Preventing Exclusion in the Early Elementary Classroom
Written by Donna Goertz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2001
Price: $15.95
Charting the progress of twelve children in a real Texas classroom, educator Donna Goertz shows how positive change can occur given the proper environment. In each case she describes a child's transformation from destructive troublemaker to responsible citizen of the classroom community. Readers will learn how to apply Montessori methods to... Read more >
Preventing Exclusion in the Early Elementary Classroom
Written by Donna Goertz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2001
Price: $15.95
Charting the progress of twelve children in a real Texas classroom, educator Donna Goertz shows how positive change can occur given the proper environment. In each case she describes a child's transformation from destructive troublemaker to responsible citizen of the classroom community. Readers will learn how to apply Montessori methods to... Read more >
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