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Perfect Phrases for School Administrators

by Christine Canning Wilson

Find the right words to communicate with teachers, other educators, personnel, vendors, and morePerfect Phrases for School Administrators contains features the key words, phrases, acronyms, jargon and buzzwords...

Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

by Thomas Lickona

Calls for renewed moral education in America's schools, offering dozens of programs schools can adopt to teach students respect, responsibility, hard work, and other values that should not be left to parents...

Schaum's Outline of Basic Electricity, Second Edition

by Milton Gussow

Confused by basic electricity concepts? Problem solvedSchaum's Outline of Basic Electricity covers the fundamentals of electricity and electric circuits. Written as a complement to vocational and technical courses,...

Why Bad Grades Happen to Good Kids: What Parents Need to Know, What Parents Need to Do

by Linda Bress Ph.D.; Silbert

This easy-to-read guide will help parents help their children succeed in all stages of their educations. The Silberts work with parents to help figure out and address the root of a child's problems in school,...

Alternative Assessments for Identifying Gifted and Talented Students

by Joyce VanTassel-Baska

Alternative Assessments With Gifted and Talented Students provides a concise and thorough introduction to methods for identifying gifted students in the school setting.

Including overviews of assessment tools...

Conquering the SAT

by Ned Johnson & Emily Warner Eskelsen

This insightful and practical guide for parents shows how we often undermine rather than encourage our teens' success on one of the most stressful standardized tests--the SAT--and what strategies will remedy...

Student Essentials: Critical Thinking

by Debra Hills

This practical and easy-to-use guide allows students to master the essentials of critical thinking in just one hour. With advice, useful checklists and exercises to help students develop and apply core critical...

Exambusters English Vocabulary Study Cards: Word Roots Parts I and II

by Ace Academics & Anthony Sovak

EXAMBUSTERS English Word Roots Parts 1 and 2 eBook flash cards: Over 380 essential Word Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes, each with up to ten derivative word examples and definitions. Interpret new words without...

5 Steps to a 5 500 AP Human Geography Questions to Know by Test Day

by Jason Flowers & Elyse Zavar

Organized for easy reference and crucial practice, coverage of all the essential topics presented as 500 AP-style questions with detailed answer explanations

5 Steps to a 5: 500 AP Human Geography Questions to...

Rigorous Curriculum Design

by Larry Ainsworth

Rigorous Curriculum Design presents a carefully sequenced, hands-on model that curriculum designers and educators in every school system can follow to create a progression of units of study that keeps standards,...

Push Has Come to Shove: Getting Our Kids the Education They Deserve--Even If It Means Picking a Fight

by Steve Dr Perry

“Have you been to a school lately?  Have you sat through the six hours and forty-five minutes of excruciating tedium we send our kids to every day?  When we ask our kids, “What’d you do in school today?”...

5 Steps to a 5 AP Microeconomics/Macroeconomics, 2012-2013 Edition

by Eric Dodge

A Perfect Plan for the Perfect Score

We want you to succeed on your AP* exam. That's why we've created this 5-step plan to help you study more effectively, use your preparation time wisely, and get your best...

Lecture Notes: A Professor's Inside Guide to College Success

by Philip Mitchell Freeman

If you’re an incoming freshman facing the culture shock of campus life, reeling under the weight of scholastic expectations, and feeling the pressure of overwhelming financial commitments—don’t panic!...

Life's Little College Admissions Insights

by Eric Yaverbaum & Cole Yaverbaum

Life's Little College Admissions Insights is meant to be the first book an overwhelmed college bound student and their parent can read easily and quickly. The top counselors and advisors selected and interviewed...

College Rules!, 3rd Edition: How to Study, Survive, and Succeed in College

by Sherrie Nist-Olejnik & Jodi Patrick Holschuh

And You Thought Getting into College Was Hard . . .

Students who assume they can figure out college on the fly often learn things the hard way—they look back and think, “If only I’d known this from the...

This is Not a Firedrill: Crisis Intervention and Prevention on College Campuses

by Rick A. Myer, Richard K. James & Patrice Moulton

Practical Information and Tools to Create and Implement a Comprehensive College Campus Crisis Management Program

Written by three seasoned crisis intervention/prevention specialists with over fifty years combined...

The Pedagogy of Adaptation

by Raw Cutchins

This collection of essays focuses on numerous contexts to emphasize why film adaptations matter to students of literature. Written by specialists in a variety of fields, ranging from film, radio, theater, and...

Extreme Writing: Discovering the Writer in Every Student

by Keen J. Babbage

This book describes how teachers can build upon the eagerness and skills that students apply to recreational, social, and friendly writing, bringing enjoyment back into writing for students.

Free $ For College For Dummies

by David Rosen & Caryn Mladen

Demystifies the scholarship selection process

Write winning essays and get financial aid

Need money for college? This simple, straightforward guide shows you how to find scholarships, grants, and other "free money"...

Engaging the Online Learner: Activities and Resources for Creative Instruction

by Rita-Marie Conrad & J. Ana Donaldson

This is a revision of the first title in Jossey-Bass' Online Teaching & Learning series. This series helps higher education professionals improve the practice of online teaching and learning by providing concise,...