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55 Successful Harvard Law School Application Essays

by The Staff of the Harvard Crimson

Separate yourself from the pack

Competition has never been more intense for admittance into the nation's top law schools. The application essay represents your only chance to plea your case to admissions officers....

Dyslexia and English

by Elizabeth Turner & Jayne Pughe

The difficulties dyslexic students experience in the English mainstream classroom and present to their English teacher are examined in detail in this book. The authors show how these difficulties may best be...

The Dyslexic Scholar: Helping Your Child Achieve Academic Success

by Kathleen Nosek

Veteran educator Kathleen Nosek tells parents the secrets to successfully naviagating today's school system and ensuring that dyslexic children receive the quality education they are entitled to by law. Includes...

Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Children's Literature

by Sandra L. Beckett & Maria Nikolajeva

Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Children's Literature examines in depth eleven of the most celebrated European children's novels in substantial, critical essays written by well-known international scholars....

Build It Once: A Basic Primer for the Creation of Online Exhibitions

by Sarah Goodwin Thiel

Build It Once is designed for the staff member faced with the challenge of creating high-quality online exhibitions with limited exhibit experience, technical support and resources. It is a book of practices...

Straight Talk for Principals

by Raymond Lemley

This guide addresses the ground level, more mundane issues that confound principals daily and offers simple yet provocative answers to the befuddling things that require the principal's attention and demand...

Activating the Primary Social Studies Classroom: A Standards-Based Sourcebook for K-4

by Leslie Marlow & Duane Inman

Here is a resource for teachers and prospective teachers who want to engage their students in hands-on learning opportunities that are aligned with the NCSS standards. Includes: assessment rubrics, student and...

Structuring Learning Environments in Teacher Education to Elicit Dispositions as Habits of Mind: Strategies and Approaches Used and Lessons Learned

by Erskine S. Dottin, Lynne D. Miller & George E. O'Brien

This book focuses on faculty members in a learning community in the College of Education at Florida International University. It discusses their pedagogical efforts to structure learning environments consistent...

Reference Librarianship: Notes from the Trenches

by Peter Sprenkle & Charles R Anderson

A daily diary of actual interactions between a reference desk librarian and his patrons

Reference Librarianship documents a year in the life of a young librarian working in the "trenches" at a library in the...

Raising Multicultural Awareness in Higher Education

by Ana Maria Klein

This book is written for teacher-candidates who are becoming culturally responsible and informed reflective practitioners. As readers explore the contents of the textbook and carry out the suggested teaching...

Student Teaching and the Law

by Zorka Koranxha, Perry A. Zirkel & David A. Ritchey

This volume fills that gap in the burgeoning literature of education law that lacks a comprehensive and current source specific to student teaching.

Benjamin S. Bloom: Portraits of an Educator

by Thomas R. Guskey

Few individuals in the history of education have had greater impact on educational policy and practice than Benjamin S. Bloom. Benjamin Bloom's stories are touching remembrances that offer special insight into...

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget & Vygotsky

by Carol Garhart Mooney

The classic guide for early childhood classrooms and professionals, now revised and updated.

Limitations and Possibilities of Dialogue Among Researchers, Policymakers, and Practitioners: International Perspectives on the Field of Education

by Mark B. Ginsburg & Jorge Gorostiaga

The chapters in this edited volume raise important issues of the relation between research and its various external "publics".

The Lecturer's Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Assessment, Learning and Teaching

by Phil Race

The Lecturer's Toolkit is the primary resource for all teachers in higher education, whatever their experience, who are seeking to improve their teaching skills. Developed around detailed, practical guidance...

Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present Day

by Liora Bresler, David Cooper & Joy Palmer

Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education looks at fifty of the twentieth century's most significant contributors to the debate on education. Among those included are:

* Pierre Bourdieu

* Elliot Eisner

* Hans J. Eysenck...

Constructing Worlds through Science Education: The Selected Works of John K. Gilbert

by John K. Gilbert

Internationally renowned and award-winning author John Gilbert has spent the last thirty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the central and enduring issues in science education. He has...

Moderate Learning Difficulties and the Future of Inclusion

by Narcie Kelly & Brahm Norwich

Children with mild to moderate learning difficulties (MLD) make up the largest sub-group of children requiring special educational needs, and yet they are often neglected in terms of research and in their influence...

Rubric Assessment Goes to College: Objective, Comprehensive Evaluation of Student Work

by Mary J. Goggins Selke

Do you want to expand working knowledge of how to construct, revise, and implement rubrics with specific how-to’s and plenty of examples? Rubric Assessment Goes to College provides effective college-level...

The 200 Most Frequently Asked Legal Questions for Educators

by Nathan L. Essex

This jargon-free and easy-to-understand reference focuses on 200 common legal issues, providing school administrators and teachers with authoritative, legally defensible approaches for addressing school challenges....