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The Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program targets reading comprehension skills in high-ability learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic understanding to critical analyses of texts using a field-tested method developed by the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary.

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The Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program targets reading comprehension skills in high-ability learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic understanding to critical analyses of texts using a field-tested method developed by the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary

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This volume looks at American and Japanese schools and analyzes how cultural attitudes can both promote and hinder education in each country. The author argues that American teachers try to encourage students to be creative, while Japanese counterparts are narrowly focused and efficient.

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The Japanese educational system has become an object of growing dissatisfaction among Japanese students and parents, due to its suppression of intellectual creativity and its elitist examination process, and some Japanese educators are looking at the American system of higher education as a model of a viable alternative.

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This course offers advanced work in composition, analysis, arranging and current theoretical ideas and processes relevant to improvisors and composers.

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This course offers advanced work in composition, analysis, arranging and current theoretical ideas and processes relevant to improvisors and composers.

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Jean Piaget is a major thinker in education. This title offers an account of Piaget's educational thought. It is divided into: Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of Piaget's work; The reception and influence of Piaget's work; and, The relevance of the work.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a major thinker in education. This volume offers an account of Rousseau's educational thought. It is divided into: Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of Rousseau's work; The reception and influence of Rousseau's; and, The relevance of the work.

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An engaging series that delves into various professions. In the second installment, titled "I am a Drywaller," Jenny explores the fascinating world of the drywall industry.

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This books aim is to introduce the English reader to the major Swiss novelist.

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Jerome Bruner is indisputably a major thinker in education. This volume offers an account of Bruner's educational thought. It includes: a biography; an exposition of Bruner's work; the reception and influence of Bruner's work; and excerpts from an interview with Jerome Bruner.

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Originally published: London: Continuum, 2007.

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The classic million-copy bestselling handbook on reading aloud to children - revised and updated for a new generation of readers.

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This book proposes a philosophical framework, based on the work of John Dewey, to develop a new model for community colleges in the 21st century.

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This book proposes a philosophical framework, based on the work of John Dewey, to develop a new model for community colleges in the 21st century.

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John Henry Newman is indisputably a major thinker in education. This volume offers an account of Newman's educational thought. It is divided into: Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of Newman's work; and, The reception, influence and relevance of Newman's work. The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, and Kant.

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John Holt is indisputably a major thinker in education. This volume offers an account of Holt's educational thought. It is divided into: intellectual biography; critical exposition of Holt's work; and the reception and influence of Holt's work as well as the relevance of his work.

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John Locke is a major thinker in education. This title offers an account of Locke's educational thought. It is divided into: intellectual biography, critical exposition of Locke's work, and the reception and influence of Locke's work and the relevance of the work.

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John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and William Morris among others. A great educator, Ruskin is the force behind key debates in education today. The essays in John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education examine Ruskins influence on educating girls, libraries, creativity, grammar schools, social mobility, the environment and the future of the planet.