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'Race', Class and Gender in Exclusion from School [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Cecile Wright
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 This book provides a compelling account and analysis of the delicate balance between power and resistance and the ways in which developing conceptions of 'self' must be entered into any theoretical model.
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Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Molly McClain, Jacqueline D. Roth
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 Over 6 million undergraduate and A.P. high school students need help writing essays. Helps students conquer writers block and ace the academic essay. Includes dozens of sample essays on various topics. Features checklists and questions keep students "on track". (Published: 2002)
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Spanish Among Amigos: Conversational Spanish Beyond the Classroom [Secure Mobipocket]
by Nuria Agullo
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Put away your textbook and learn how to really speak Spanish Among Amigos Textbook Spanish has its place--in the classroom. If you want to communicate with real people, however, it's time to leave the stilted dialogues and formal syntax behind. Instead, flip open Spanish Among Amigos and start hanging out with two native Spanish speakers with attitude, Pepa and Pili. These Spanish gals will make you smile, chuckle, raise your eyebrows, and--most important of all--learn to speak Spanish naturally... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Survival Guide for New Teachers [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Amy DePaul
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 Contains the reflections of award-winning first-year teachers who talk candidly about their successes and setbacks, with a particular emphasis on the relationships they formed with their colleagues, university professors, and their students' parents. (Published: 2002)
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TABE Test of Adult Basic Education [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Phyllis Dutwin, Carol Altreuter
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Ready to take the TABE? Learn how to learn! With McGraw-Hill's TABE: Test of Adult Basic Education by your side Congratulations! You've taken the first step towards improving your life! By enrolling for the TABE tests, you have decided to reach for your next learning and career goals and improve your quality of life, for yourself, or for your family. With TABE: Test of Adult Basic Education, The First Step to Lifelong Success as your guide, you'll discover how to target and master the skills yo... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Teach Me, I'm Yours: Success For Your Unique Child--revised, expanded edition [Adobe Acrobat (PDF)]
by Joan Bramsch
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Increase your child's IQ while having FUN with these specially designed games, songs, exercises and lessons featuring locomotor & manipulative skills, listening, creative thinking, problem solving games & more. Teach Me, I'm Yours is designed for Parents to give their Child the skills they need for school success ... and for Life. Ideal for children aged 2 1/2 to 7 years. Includes materials for all levels of learning abilities. [PUBLISHER NOTE: AVAILABLE ONLY IN ACROBAT PDF FORMAT.] (Published: 2004) EPPIE Award Winner
Words: 48045 - Reading Time: 137-192 min.
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Teach with Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Erin Gruwell
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In this memoir and call to arms, Erin Gruwell, the dynamic young teacher who nurtured a remarkable group of high school students from Long Beach, California, who called themselves the Freedom Writers, picks up where The Freedom Writers Diary (and the movie The Freedom Writers) end and catches the reader up to where they are today. Teach with Your Heart will include the Freedom Writers' unforgettable trip to Auschwitz, where they met with Holocaust survivors; toured the attic of their beloved Ann... more info>>
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The Biggest Job We'll Ever Have: The Hyde School Program for Character-Based Education and Parenting [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Laura Gauld, Malcolm Gauld, Marc Brown
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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 internationally known, award-winning schools and programs, Laura and Malcolm Gauld argue persuasively that true education for our children springs not just from seeking good grades and achievements but from reestablishing a true commitment to character, atti... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Grammar and Style [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Laurie Rozakis,
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A staple for adults, students, and anyone who has ever been baffled by then to use a comma--and a serial comma--The Complete Idiot's Guide to Grammar and Style contains basic chapters on the parts of speech, gradually building up to the finer points of writing, sentence structure, punctuation, creating paragraphs, and following accepted publishing styles.
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The Easy Step by Step Guide to Fundraising for Your School [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Pauline Rowson
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This book covers: The climate for fundraising, Organising for fundraising, Registering as a charity. Preparation and writing your appeal Sources of funding--trusts, foundations and grants Sources of funding--magazines and newspapers Sources of funding--the rich and famous Sources of funding--businesses Approaching sponsors by telephone The face to face meeting Giving a presentation Building a media profile A clear step by step approach to devising an effective school fundraising strategy.
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The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
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With the insights she has gleaned from her close and subtle observation of parent-teacher conferences, renowned Harvard University professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot has written a wise, useful book about the ways in which parents and teachers can make the most of their essential conversation--the dialogue between the most vital people in a child's life. "The essential conversation" is the crucial exchange that occurs between parents and teachers--a dialogue that takes place more than one hundred ... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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The Freedom Writers Diary Teacher's Guide [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Erin Gruwell
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Designed for educators by the teacher who nurtured and created the Freedom Writers, this standards-based teachers' guide includes innovative teaching techniques that will engage, empower, and enlighten.
In response to thousands of letters and e-mails from teachers across the country who learned about Erin Gruwell and her amazing students in The Freedom Writers Diary, Erin Gruwell and a team of teacher experts have written The Freedom Writers Diary Teacher's Guide, a book that will encourage tea... more info>>
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The Magic of Drama: [Adobe Acrobat (PDF)]
by Alexis Gerard Finger
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The Magic of Drama is a complete drama course in one book. The Magic of Drama is a reproducible integrated oral skills textbook. The book is intended to be used by high school and college ESL students at the high intermediate to advanced levels. As a main or supplementary text, it can be used in a variety of classes, including: speaking and listening; oral communication skills for international teaching assistants; public speaking, drama; film or literature; any class in which drama, film,or lit... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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The Thinking Parent's Guide to College Admissions: The Step-By-Step Program to Get Kids Into the Schools of Their Dreams [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Eva Ostrum
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Proven strategies for successfully navigating the college admissions process from a former Yale admissions officer Every year, throngs of college applicants miss out on getting into the right school simply because they haven't received appropriate guidance. Now, Eva Ostrum, a renowned education consultant who has coached countless families through the harrowing application process, offers parents and their children a friendly, no-nonsense guide to admissions success. Drawing on her own expertise... more info>>
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Vector Theory and the Plot Structures of Literature and Drama [MultiFormat]
by Cynthia Joyce Clay
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This book examines what literary and dramatic plotting is--what plot is. The premise of this book is that the concept of forces in literature and drama is analogous to the concept of forces in physics. In physics, vectors represent the forces that push and pull--that move, propel, objects. Vectors are used analogously to describe how characters, objects, and locations which are the "bodies" of literature and drama reflect the propelling of literary and dramatic "forces." Vector theory "elegantly... more info>> (Published: 2005)
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What High Schools Don't Tell You: 250 Secrets to Make Your Kid Irresistible to Colleges by Senior Year [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Elizabeth Wissner-Gross
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From the author of What Colleges Don't Tell You, 250 secrets for raising the kid colleges will compete to accept The headlines prove it: Competition for admission to America's top colleges is more cutthroat than ever. Gone are the days when parents could afford to let high school guidance counselors handle the admissions process alone--gone, also, are the days when a student could wait until senior year to prepare for it. As Elizabeth Wissner-Gross, a highly successful educational strategist, kn... more info>>
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What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Amy DePaul
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If you wanted to know what the first year of teaching school is like, you'd ask teachers who just completed their first year on the job. This book attempts to capture the fascinating and inspiring answers of exemplary first-year teachers to some key questions: What was it like the first year? What were your toughest challenges, your greatest rewards? Did you get the right preparation? Do you have any insights you could offer new teachers? These teachers, all winners of the First Class Teacher Aw... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Write Your College Essay in Less Than a Day [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Elizabeth Wissner-Gross
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Strategies from a noted educational consultant on how to ease the pressure, ace the essay, and gain admission into your top-choice school Getting into college has become fiercely competitive, which makes the personal-essay part of the application process even more important--and stressful. But stop worrying! In Write Your College Essay in Less Than a Day, Elizabeth Wissner-Gross--a top educational strategist in this area who counsels students at schools across the country--breaks down the harrow... more info>>
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