Education and Study aids

Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way

by Fred Rogers

An inspiring collection of Mister Rogers' thoughts to take with us on the paths we travel in life.

For all the roads we choose to travel, and even those we don't, Fred Rogers has an observation, a story, some...

Teaching STEM in the Early Years: Activities for Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

by Sally Moomaw

Weave STEM activities into young children’s daily experiences for well-rounded learning.

Vocabulary for the Common Core

by Marzano Robert J & Simms Julia A.

The Common Core State Standards present unique demands on students' ability to learn vocabulary and teachers' ability to teach it. The authors address these challenges in this resource. Work toward the creation...

Teacher-Student Relationships: Crossing into the Emotional, Physical, and Sexual Realms

by Ernest J. Zarra

Teachers and teenage students are becoming involved in inappropriate sexual relationships, often leading to devastation and arrest. Teacher-Student Relationships: Crossing into the Emotional, Physical, and Sexual...

McGraw-Hill's 500 MCAT Physics Questions to Know by Test Day

by Connie J. Wells

500 Ways to Achieve Your Highest Score

We want you to succeed on the physics section of the MCAT. That's why we've selected these 500 questions to help you study more effectively, use your preparation time wisely,...

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare

by Ken Ludwig

A foolproof, enormously fun method of teaching your children the classic works of William Shakespeare

Williams Shakespeare’s plays are among the great bedrocks of Western civilization and contain the...

Organic Literacy: The Keywords Approach to Owning Words in Print

by Kathy R. Fox, Chelsey Bahlmann & Joy Foster Hughes

Organic vocabulary describes a child’s inner source of thoughts and is based on the work of New Zealand educator Sylvia Ashton-Warner. It can help promote early literacy among children who have limited experience...

Adult Education and Learning in a Precarious Age: The Hamburg Declaration Revisited: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 138

by Tom Nesbit & Michael Welton

UNESCO’s 1997 CONFINTEA V conference in Hamburg has been described as the high-water mark of international adult education policy-making. It produced one of the most utopian statements about adult education...

Teaching on the Education Frontier: Instructional Strategies for Online and Blended Classrooms Grades 5-12

by Kristin Kipp & Susan Patrick

A groundbreaking guide to facilitating online and blended courses

This comprehensive resource offers teachers in grades K-12 a hands-on guide to the rapidly growing field of online and blended teaching. With...

Exploding The Myths Of School Reform

by David Hopkins

This book looks at the failure of educational reform efforts to impact on the learning and performance of students due to misguided action based on a number of myths associated with school reform which remain...

Understanding Autism In The Early Years

by Prithvi Perepa

The book provides focus on three areas of difficulties for children with autism, as well as the role of early years practitioners.

Health System Performance Comparison: An Agenda For Policy, Information And Research

by Irene Papanicolas & Peter Smith

This book seeks to identify the current 'state of the art' of health system comparison, identifying data and methodological issues and exploring the current interface between evidence and practice.

African Americans and Standardized Tests: The Real Reason for Low Test Scores

by Veda Jairrels

With a surprisingly honest and hard-hitting approach, this scathing indictment of the modern black family postulates that a lack of appreciation for literacy in the African American household is the true cause...

Reducing the Black Male Dropout Rate

by Jawanza Kunjufu

Outlining the 10 most significant reasons behind the high drop-out rate amongst black male students, this guide provides more than 30 solutions towards addressing this national crisis. Revealing that currently...

Changing School Culture for Black Males

by Jawanza Kunjufu

Addressing the many unique academic challenges that face black males—from low self-esteem, absenteeism, fatherlessness, and gangs to not accepting middle-class values, the impact of hip-hop culture, and drugs—this...

Fitting Form to Function: A Primer on the Organization of Academic Institutions

by Rudolph H. Weingartner

Written informally, Fitting Form to Function that the way in which the various departments within colleges and universities are organized has a direct impact on their effectiveness. Factors such as reporting...

America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics: Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy

by Joshua Bassett, Curtis Ivery & Houston Baker

In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Ivery and Bassett combine their own experience in the field of civil rights with contributions of urban studies experts to provide an overview...

Math Remediation for the College Bound: How Teachers Can Close the Gap, from the Basics through Algebra

by Daryao Khatri

Algebra is the language that must be mastered for any course that uses math because it is the gateway for entry into any science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) discipline. This book fosters...

Using Computers Games across the Curriculum

by Karen Anderson

Everyone learns best when they are enjoying an activity - even adults prefer to learn through play! This book gives a wide range of ideas and practical activities to use computer games as learning tools with...

Great Habits, Great Readers: A Practical Guide for K-4 Reading in the Light of Common Core

by Paul Bambrick-Santoyo, Aja Settles & Juliana Worrell

A book that brings the habits of reading to life

Great readers are not made by genetics or destiny but by the habits they build—habits that are intentionally built by their teachers. The early formal years...