Browsing the "Education" category: 1482 books
Fast track route to increasing your intellectual capital by mastering all aspects of lifelong learning. Covers all the key techniques of lifelong learning, from keeping a learning log and a self-development plan to finding a personal coach/mentor an ...more »
ISBN: 1841123919 / Capstone Publishing/John Wiley / Pub Date: Dec 2001 / File Size: 379K
In this comprehensive, practical, and unsettling look at computers in children's lives, Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., questions whether computers are really helping or harming children's development. Once a bedazzled enthusiast of educational computing but n ...more »
ISBN: 0684865203 / Simon & Schuster / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 370K
Here is a resource loaded with practical and creative teaching strategies for educators! Skills for Successful Teaching provides information on a wide range of topics ? ...more »
ISBN: 0742417298 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Mar 2002 / File Size: 2608K
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 In ...more »
ISBN: 038550487X / Doubleday Books / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 1395K
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Bennett (The Book of Virtues) and his colleagues (Finn, author of We Must Take Charge; Cribb, formerly of the U.S. Department of Education) offer American parents an impassioned and straight-shooting reference for e ...more »
ISBN: 0743200918 / The Free Press / Pub Date: Nov 1999 / File Size: 674K
"The book that shows homeschooling in action! What does it really mean when parents say they homeschool their child or children? For Rhonda Barfield -- a homeschooler for the past 10 years -- the definition is as diverse as the 21 families she stud ...more »
ISBN: 0743445740 / Fireside Books / Pub Date: May 2002 / File Size: 584K
"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 c ...more »
ISBN: 0375506705 / Random House / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 359K
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 ...more »
ISBN: 0759580049 / iPublish.com / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 396K
Meredith Maran assiduously explores what is going on with American teenagers in one public high school by following three students through their senior year. Ophelia Speaks meets Real Boys meets Hoop Dreams. ...more »
ISBN: 0312271727 / St Martins / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 485K
For families, educators, corporations, and communities, The Biggest Job We'll Ever Have is nothing less than a new paradigm for reconnecting education with core values. With more than thirty-five years' experience at Hyde, an organization of internat ...more »
ISBN: 0743238141 / Scribner Book Co. / Pub Date: Apr 2002 / File Size: 538K
This is a time of far-reaching change and debate in American education and social policy, spurred in part by a rediscovery that civil-society institutions are often better than government at meeting human needs. As Charles Glenn shows in this book, f ...more »
ISBN: 1400802849 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Apr 2000 / File Size: 470K
Who should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy? This is the central question posed by Amy Gutmann in the first book-length study of the democratic theory of education. The author tackles a wide range of issues, from t ...more »
ISBN: 1400809517 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 981K
To help you in your role as your child's first teacher, this book provides creative yet concrete ideas about experiences, skills, and topics you will enjoy with your young child. ...more »
ISBN: 0742417263 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Mar 2002 / File Size: 2800K
Why is it so difficult to design and implement fundamental educational reform in large city schools in spite of broad popular support for change? How does the politics of race complicate the challenge of building and sustaining coalitions for improvi ...more »
ISBN: 1400803659 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 1142K
"Lyle E. Schaller contends that large public high schools have naturally tended to evolve into dysfunctional institutions. He examines the power of the social, physical, economic, demographic, religious, geographic, and work environments to influence ...more »
ISBN: 0687028981 / Abingdon Press / Pub Date: Aug 2000 / File Size: 329K
Milwaukee, one of the nation's most segregated metropolitan areas, implemented in 1990 a school choice program aimed at improving the education of inner-city children by enabling them to attend a selection of private schools. The results of this expe ...more »
ISBN: 1400808634 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 1291K
Can charter schools save public education? This radical question has unleashed a flood of opinions from Americans struggling with the contentious challenges of education reform. There has been plenty of heat over charter schools and their implication ...more »
ISBN: 1400802245 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 1149K
" Every teacher strives to create a positive classroom environment where real learning can take place. This how-to resource is loaded with techniques and strategies to help the teacher achieve this goal. Real-life scenarios from teaching experiencebe ...more »
ISBN: 074241728X / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Mar 2002 / File Size: 1477K
Long regarded as purely a local institution, the community college has become globalized. Two year schools have been affected by economic, cultural, and technological effects of globalization. This book traces the experience of seven community col ...more »
ISBN: 031229283X / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 1624K
Dan McGroarty makes a powerful case for school choice by illustrating that school choice is about the ability of low income parents to provide the least restrictive environment for their children's education. ...more »
ISBN: 0891955003 / The Heritage Foundation / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 401K
American higher education was transformed between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. During this period, U.S. colleges underwent fundamental changes--changes that helped to create the modern university we know today. ...more »
ISBN: 140080650X / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 337K
No Excuses examines the common practices of 21 principals of low-income schools whose record of achievement shows that all children can learn, regardless of their parent's income. ...more »
ISBN: 0891955054 / The Heritage Foundation / Pub Date: Mar 2001 / File Size: 431K
Advocates of school vouchers and other choice proposals couch their arguments in the fashionable language of economic theory. Choice initiatives at all levels of government have succeeded, it is claimed, because they shift responsibility for educatio ...more »
ISBN: 1400803624 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 883K
ISBN: 5552047516 / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Mar 2001 / File Size: 222K
ISBN: 5552062884 / Amazon Press / Pub Date: Mar 2001 / File Size: 283K
