Education and Study aids

What Your Preschooler Needs to Know: Get Ready for Kindergarten

by Core Knowledge Foundation

Give your child a smart start with

What Your Preschooler Needs to Know

Designed for parents to enjoy with children, filled with opportunities for reading aloud and fostering curiosity, this beautifully illustrated...

Assessing the Online Learner: Resources and Strategies for Faculty

by Rena M. Palloff & Keith Pratt

Written by Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt, experts in the field of online teaching and learning, this hands-on resource helps higher education professionals understand the fundamentals of effective online assessment....

School Board Fieldbook, The: Leading With Vision

by Mark Van Clay & Perry Soldwedel

Take a reader-friendly tour through the responsibilities and challenges of being a school board member. Written by experienced, award-winning administrators, The School Board Fieldbook gives practical guidance...

There Are No Shortcuts

by Rafe Esquith

Year after year, Rafe Esquith’s fifth-grade students excel. They read passionately, far above their grade level; tackle algebra; and stage Shakespeare so professionally that they often wow the great Shakespearen...

Essentials of Evidence-Based Academic Interventions

by Barbara J. Wendling & Nancy Mather

Essentials of Evidence-Based Academic Interventions puts at your fingertips the successful instructional techniques and materials necessary for accurate and effective use of evidence-based interventions. Written...

A Is for Admission

by Michele A. Hernández

Plenty of college admission guides promise to help students crack the Ivy League, but few of these have detailed knowledge to backup their advice. Michele Hernandez, on the other hand, is the ultimate insider....

Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings

by Louis H. Sullivan

Kindergarten Chats and other writings by Louis H. Sullivan George Wittenborn. Originally published in 1917. Editorial Note: The printing of the unpublished revision of Kindergarten Chats in this volume carries...

Evaluation in Distance Education and E-Learning

by Valerie Ruhe & Bruno Zumbo

With the rapid proliferation of distance education and e-learning courses, the need is growing for a comprehensive, professional approach to evaluating their effectiveness. This indispensable book offers a road...

Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them

by Ross W Greene

From a distinguished clinician, pioneer in working with behaviorally challenging kids, and author of the acclaimed The Explosive Child comes a groundbreaking approach for understanding and helping these kids...

A Parent's Guide to Tutors and Tutoring: How to Support the Unique Needs of Your Child

by James Ph.D. Mendelsohn

A Parent's Guide to Tutors and Tutoring offers a survival guide for helping parents decide whether or not to hire a tutor; advice for choosing the right person; and ideas for evaluating if the job is well done....

School-Based Mental Health

by Ray W Christner & Rosemary B Mennuti

This volume provides school-based practitioners with a comprehensive and comparative guide to the strategic interventions, therapeutic modalities, and treatment approaches that are most commonly and effectively...

100+ Educational Strategies to Teach Children

by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu

Because the attrition rate for new teachers in high-poverty schools averages between 40% and 50% over the first five years of teaching, this investigation offers practical solutions to more than 100 of the...

Behave Yourself!: Helping Students Plan to Do Better

by Ambrose Panico

Develop sound behavior change plans for both general and special education students. You will learn specific strategies for developing behavior intervention plans (BIPs) that lead to long-term, positive change....

Leadeship with a Moral Purpose: Turning your school inside out

by Will Ryan & Ian Gilbert

This book gives all primary heads – aspiring, newly appointed or those for whom the phrase ‘There must be something more than this…!’ rings a bell – the ideas, techniques, tools and direction to turn their...

The Freedom Writers Diary Teacher's Guide

by The Freedom Writers & Erin Gruwell

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.

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Class Degrees: Smart Work, Managed Choice, and the Transformation of Higher Education

by Evan Watkins

A current truism holds that the undergraduate degree today is equivalent to the high-school diploma of yesterday. But undergraduates at a research university would probably not recognize themselves in the historical...

Fordham: A History and Memoir, Revised Edition

by Raymond Schroth

Fordham University is the quintessential American-Catholic institution--and one now looked upon as among the best Catholic universities in the country. Its story is also the story of New York, especially the...

The Work of the University

by Richard C. Levin

This engaging collection of speeches and essays, published on the occasion of Richard C. Levin’s tenth anniversary as president of Yale University, reflects both the range of his intellectual passions and...

Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education

by Joseph J. Tobin

Kindergarten kissing games...four-year-olds playing doctor...a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these—spontaneous and pleasurable—are no longer encouraged in...

Staying in the Game: Providing Social Opportunities for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Other Developmental Disabilities

by James W., PhD Loomis

Staying in the Game goes beyond just placing students in the mainstream, to include taking advantage of inclusion by facilitating the use of typical students to address generalization of social skills - one...