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The New Career Makers

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Louisiana

The Last Best Hope - From the Age of Discovery to a World at War

Endeavors to present the history of the United States from a balanced perspective, describing both positive and negative events, and illuminating the powerful leaders who steered the country on the path of freedom.

America

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities

A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future.

In Crisis on Campus, Mark C. Taylor--chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University and a former professor at Williams College--expands on and refines the ideas presented in his widely read and hugely controversial 2009 New York Times op-ed. His suggestions for the ivory tower are both thought-provoking and rigorous: End tenure. Restructure departments to encourage greater cooperation among existing disciplines. Emphasize teaching rather than increasingly rarefied research. And bring that teaching to new domains, using emergent online networks to connect students worldwide.

As a nation, he argues, we fail to make such necessary and sweeping changes at our peril. Taylor shows us the already-rampant consequences of decades of organizational neglect. We see promising graduate students in a distinctly unpromising job market, relegated--if they're lucky--to positions that take little advantage of their training and talent. We see recent undergraduates with massive burdens of debt, and anxious parents anticipating the inflated tuitions we will see in ten or twenty years. We also see students at all levels chafing under the restrictions of traditional higher education, from the structures of assignments to limits on courses of study. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Accommodating the students of today and anticipating those of tomorrow, attuned to schools' financial woes and the skyrocketing cost of education, Taylor imagines a new system--one as improvisational, as responsive to new technologies and as innovative as are the young members of the iPod and Facebook generation.

In Crisis on Campus, we have an iconoclastic, necessary catalyst for a national debate long overdue.

Crisis on Campus

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Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools

An educational innovator who worked at Sesame Workshop and The George Lucas Educational Foundation offers a new vision for learning

As a result of constant innovation, learning is no longer limited by traditional confines and we're moving beyond students tied to their chairs, desks, and textbooks-and teachers locked away in classrooms. In Education Nation author Milton Chen draws from extensive experience in media-from his work on Sesame Street in its nascent years to his role as executive director of the George Lucas Educational Foundation-to support a vision for a new world of learning.

This book, in six chapters, explores the "edges" in education--the places where K-12 learning has already seen revolutionary changes through innovative reform and the use of technology.

 * Examines ways in which learning can be revolutionized through innovative reform and the use of technology
 * Explores the ever-expanding world of technology for breakthroughs in teaching and learning
 * Includes many wonderful resources to support innovation in schools across the nation

This important book offers a clear vision for tomorrow's classrooms that will enhance learning opportunities for all children.

Education Nation

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The Nature of a Liberal College

Brandon P. Fleming

Cornel West

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Arizona

A Memoir

An inspiring memoir of one man's transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate--all by the age of twenty-seven.



Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a nod to his skill on the basketball court, not his presence in the classroom. He turned to the streets and drug deals by fourteen, saved only by the dream of basketball stardom.

 

When he suffered a career-ending injury during his first semester at a Division I school, he dropped out of college, toiling on an assembly line, until depression drove him to the edge. Miraculously, his life was spared.



Returning to college, Fleming was determined to reinvent himself as a scholar--to replace illiteracy with mastery over language, to go from being ignored and unseen to commanding attention. He immersed himself in the work of Black thinkers from the Harlem Renaissance to present day. Crucially, he found debate, which became the means by which he transformed his life and the tool he would use to transform the lives of others--teaching underserved kids to be intrusive in places that are not inclusive, eventually at Harvard University, where he would make champions and history.



Through his personal narrative, readers witness Fleming's transformation, self-education, and how he takes what he learns about words and power to help others like himself. Miseducated is an honest memoir about resilience, visibility, role models, and overcoming all expectations.

Miseducated

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New Jersey

Chickenpox…Ain’t Bogus

Civic Juvies

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Alabama

The Reader's Digest Children's Atlas of the World

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An Eight-Year-Old Sister's Introduction to Her Brother Who Has Autism

Features Sarah an eight year old girl who has grown up with and who, with her parents, has been involved in helping her younger brother with autism to learn. This book is a testament to the parental support that has fostered a strong positive relationship between Sarah and her brother.

All about My Brother

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Paul Tough

New York

How College Makes or Breaks Us

"Indelible and extraordinary."--Tara Westover, author ofEducated: A Memoir,New York Times Book Review

ANew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice



The best-selling author of How Children Succeed returns with a powerful, mind-changing inquiry into higher education in the United States



Does college still work? Is the system designed just to protect the privileged and leave everyone else behind? Or can a college education today provide real opportunity to young Americans seeking to improve their station in life?



The Years That Matter Most tells the stories of students trying to find their way, with hope, joy, and frustration, through the application process and into college. Drawing on new research, the book reveals how the landscape of higher education has shifted in recent decades and exposes the hidden truths of how the system works and whom it works for. And it introduces us to the people who really make higher education go: admissions directors trying to balance the class and balance the budget, College Board officialsscrambling to defend the SAT in the face of mounting evidence that it favors the wealthy, researchers working to unlock the mysteries of the college-student brain, and educators trying to transform potential dropouts into successful graduates.



With insight, humor, and passion, Paul Tough takes readers on a journey from Ivy League seminar rooms to community college welding shops, from giant public flagship universities to tiny experimental storefront colleges. Whether you are facing your own decision about college or simply care about the American promise of social mobility,The Years That Matter Most will change the way you think--not just about higher education, but about the nation itself.



 

The Years That Matter Most

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Vermont

Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education

A timely indictment of the corporate takeover of education and the privatization - and profitability - of separate and unequal schools, published at a critical time in the dismantling of public education in America What do public schools have in common with the pyramid schemes of Amway? Absolutely nothing, yet Trump's education secretary Betsy DeVos - part of the family at the helm of this corporation and a fierce advocate for vouchers, school choice, and free market competition in the education system - may soon be deciding the fate of American children. The wholesale privatization of our schools is expected to be at the top of her agenda. One of the greatest American achievements in the twentieth century was the creation of public schools and universal education, an ideal now deeply at risk. Cornell University professor Noliwe Rooks provides a critical account of the making and unmaking of public education in Cutting School, the first book to foreground how vast racial and eco

Cutting School

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E. Foley

B. Coates

Everything You Learnt at School... and Promptly Forgot

A nostalgic compendium of essential knowledge that can help you show the world that you're smarter than a ten-year-old after all!

Have you ever stared blankly at your kids when they've asked why the sky is blue? Or clumsily changed the subject when they've wanted to know why the wind blows? If you're done with school, it's likely you're also done knowing the difference between an isosceles and equilateral triangle, and you probably leave participles dangling all over the place. Well, not anymore! Thanks to professional know-it-alls Foley and Coates, you can now gain back your self-respect and actually show those kids a thing or two as you tell it to them straight (and not make it up from fragments of facts you kind of remember).

Packed with all the basic facts that have managed to free-fall from our heads over the years, Homework for Grown-ups is the ultimate grammar school refresher course in book form. In fact, there's even a quiz at the end of each chapter to ensure you've been paying attention! Written in the light, engaging style of a favorite teacher and featuring lessons in English, math, history, science, geography, art, and even home economics and recess, this fun and handy guide will help you stop hemming and hawing and start speaking with a lot more authority--and a little less shame.
E. FOLEY and B. COATES are editors at Vintage who both live in London.

Homework for Grown-Ups

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Rhode Island

Understanding Diversity, Opportunity Gaps, and Teaching in Today's Classrooms

Start Where You Are, But Don't Stay There addresses a crucial issue in teacher training and professional education: the need to prepare pre-service and in-service teachers for the racially diverse student populations in their classrooms. A down-to-earth book, it aims to help practitioners develop insights and skills for successfully educating diverse student bodies. The book centers on case studies that exemplify the challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities facing teachers in diverse classrooms. These case studies-of white and African American teachers working (and preparing to work) in urban and suburban settings-are presented amid more general discussions about race and teaching in contemporary schools. Informing these discussions and the cases themselves is their persistent attention to opportunity gaps that need to be fully grasped by teachers who aim to understand and promote the success of students of greatly varying backgrounds.

Education Books Bundle

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Camilla De la Bédoyère

"From the fearsome great white to the giant whale shark, this book reveals amazing facts about the ocean's top predators."--

The Complete Guide to Sharks

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Economics

Elementary Economics

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Michigan

Describes the geography, plants and animals, history, economy, language, culture and people of the state of Virginia

⭐ Virginia

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Pete Hegseth

David Goodwin

Uprooting a Century of Miseducation





#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

FOX News host Pete Hegseth is back with what he says is his most important book yet: A revolutionary road map to saving our children from leftist indoctrination. 

Behind a smokescreen of "preparing students for the new industrial economy," early progressives had political control in mind. America's original schools didn't just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom. They assigned the classics, inspired love of God and country, and raised future citizens that changed the world forever. 

Today, after 16,000 hours of K-12 indoctrination, our kids come out of government schools hating America. They roll their eyes at religion and disdain our history. We spend more money on education than ever, but kids can barely read and write--let alone reason with discernment. Western culture is on the ropes. Kids are bored and aimless, flailing for purpose in a system that says racial and gender identity is everything.

Battle for the American Mind is the untold story of the Progressive plan to neutralize the basis of our Republic - by removing the one ingredient that had sustained Western Civilization for thousands of years. Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin explain why, no matter what political skirmishes conservatives win, progressives are winning the war--and control the "supply lines" of future citizens.  Reversing this reality will require parents to radically reorient their children's education; even most homeschooling and Christian schooling are infused with progressive assumptions. We need to recover a lost philosophy of education - grounded in virtue and excellence - that can arm future generations to fight for freedom. It's called classical Christian education. Never heard of it You're not alone.

Battle for the American Mind is more than a book; it's a field guide for remaking school in the United States. We've ceded our kids' minds to the left for far too long--this book gives patriotic parents the ammunition to join an insurgency that gives America a fighting chance.

Battle for the American Mind

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Mary Kim Schreck

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Hard Facts about the Soft Skills of Student Engagement

Standards, curricula, and assessment tools have been built and rebuilt to provide excellence and achievement. Now we're faced with the one variable that can turn all this effort into ash: the students.

Navigate the hot topic of student engagement with a true expert. The author explores the many factors involved in bringing out the best in students, such as relationships, emotions, environment, and expectations. Discover how to create an environment in which students feel confident and safe enough to take risks, make mistakes, and immerse themselves in stimulating learning experiences. Above all, become empowered to demand an authentic joy for learning in your classroom. Real-life notes from the field, detailed discussions, practical strategies, and space for reflection complete this essential guide to student engagement.

You've Got to Reach Them to Teach Them

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Kylene Beers

A Guide for Teachers 6-12

A guide to help teachers reach struggling readers offers practical strategies, classroom skills, and activities.

When Kids Can't Read-What Teachers Can Do

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Richard Benson

Florida

Features humorous but incorrect answers to challenging test questions in biology, physics, chemistry, psychology, English, history, business, geography, and technology.

F in Exams: the Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers (Unique Books, Humor Books, Funny Books for Teachers)

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Reading & Language Arts

How to Create and Carry Out Instructional Units

This is two books in one: a primer for teaching secondary English and a comprehensive guide to creating and using four to six-week instructional units. Peter Smagorinsky shares important insight about students, how they learn, and what kinds of classrooms support their achievement in reading and writing. Then he uses those findings to open up the key ideas of unit design to every teacher. Smagorinsky's units are organized around key concepts in English, such as:
 * reading strategies
 * writing strategies
 * genres
 * periods, regions, and movements in literature
 * themes
 * the works of a significant author.

From original idea to construction, to implementation and beyond, Smagorinsky's practical advice supports teachers in extending, connecting, and integrating their units to increase the cohesion and power of the curriculum.
Incorporating curricular theory, educational psychology, and fourteen years of high school teaching experience, Peter Smagorinsky's advice is both theoretically sound and grounded in the daily realities of today's teacher. Complemented by a wealth of web-based illustrations, Teaching English by Design is the ideal resource for preservice teachers as well as those in the classroom who want to take charge of their curriculum and find new energy in it.

Teaching English by Design

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John Gribbin

Mary Gribbin

Alaska

Explore the Changing Ideas About Our Universe

Inspired by the Eyewitness "lexigraphic" approach, the definitive text, detailed captions, and labels combine with many full-color graphics, photos, and 3-D models to show the landmark experiments, the complex equipment, procedures, and concepts in all fields -- from relativity to genetics to ecology.

Eyewitness: Time and Space

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#paperback #comics #graphicnovel #howto #howtoons #education #image #firstprinting #childrens #youngreaders HowToons (Make Anything) Tools of Mass Construction, Image Comics, Graphic Novel, Children’s How-To & Education, First Printing July 2014, ISBN 9781632151018, 346 Pages

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HowToons (Make Anything) Tools of Mass Construction, Image Comics, Graphic Novel, Children’s How-To & Education, First Printing July 2014, ISBN 9781632151018, 346 Pages

"This is a great addition to STEM collections, maker spaces, andelementary- through middle-school graphic-novel collections." -Booklist

"Fine, fabulous stuff" - School LibraryJournal

Lurking in the corners of your garage, on the dusty shelvesof hardware stores, and in your own trashcan are the tools and ingredients forcreating your own adventures. Follow Celine and Tucker as they learn throughplay with over 50 DIY projects! Challenged to make something "other thantrouble," this brother-and-sister pair use everyday objects to invent toys thatreaders can build. Combining comics and real-life science and engineeringprinciples, Howtoons are designed to encourage kids to become activeparticipants in the world around them.

"...perfectly tuned to inspirecreativity as well as promote good work habits in budding inventors andmechanical engineers alike." - Kirkus Review

"Geeks aren't born,they're made... and here's the instruction manual." - WiredMagazine



Howtoons: Tools of Mass Destruction 

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Jim O'Connor

Who HQ

The morning of August 24, AD 79, seemed like any other in the Roman city of Pompeii. So no one was prepared when the nearby volcano Mount Vesuvius suddenly erupted, spouting ash that buried the city and its inhabitants. The disaster left thousands dead, and Pompeii was no more than a memory for almost 1,700 years. In 1748, explorers rediscovered the port city with intact buildings and beautiful mosaics. This easy-to-read account is gripping and includes photos of the ruins.

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