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Experience in teaching preschool children and in helping others enjoy music, this author provides an introduction to successful programs for sharing music with children.

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This sympathetic look at the daily work life of our educators directly confronts issues with our changing student population, teacher unions, poor family dynamics, financial inequities, and student performance on international achievement tests. The author offers data and insi...

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Exploring the United States through Literature describes the best of current print and nonprint materials teachers can use with their students to study individual states.

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Exploring the United States through Literature describes the best of current print and nonprint materials teachers can use with their students to study individual states.

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Motivate students to read by using a topic they love-sports-and extend learning across the curriculum! Perry describes subject-specific fiction and nonfiction materials that help students make the transition from fiction to expository text.

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For over a half century, educational sociologists have struggled to explain the cause of differential academic achievement in the school. This book attempts to offer an explanation by examining the role played by ascribed characteristics of students (race, gender, and class) a...

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This book introduces a thematic approach to social history that connects the past to the daily lives of students. Four unique primary source sets, reading guides, and essential/compelling questions for students are provided that encourage inquiry learning and the development of critical literacy skills aligned with the Common Core Standards.

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This book introduces a thematic approach to social history that connects the past to the daily lives of students. Four unique primary source sets, reading guides, and essential/compelling questions for students are provided that encourage inquiry learning and the development of critical literacy skills aligned with the Common Core Standards.

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This book uses both existing research and anecdotal classroom observations to examine the effects whiteness studies is having on Americas schools.

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This book describes technologies that will impact community colleges and universities in the near future.

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Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth and skill-building. This volume offers practical advice on how to teach writing in a way that is respectful, insightful, and that helps the writer explore and celebrate his or her life story.

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Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth and skill-building. This volume offers practical advice on how to teach writing in a way that is respectful, insightful, and that helps the writer explore and celebrate his or her life story.

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Extreme Curriculum Makeover: A Hands-On Guide for a Learner-Centered Pedagogy explores how to develop a learner-centered pedagogy through specific strategies that can be implemented in any classroom, at any grade level, and that can transform the traditional learning environme...

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Extreme Curriculum Makeover: A Hands-On Guide for a Learner-Centered Pedagogy explores how to develop a learner-centered pedagogy through specific strategies that can be implemented in any classroom, at any grade level, and that can transform the traditional learning environme...

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This book identifies, through current research, what children and teenagers need to know about managing funds. It shows educators how to design instructional activities that enable students to learn about money management in fascinating and meaningful ways.

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Extreme Economics identifies what children and teenagers need to know about personal finance. This book can show educators how to design instructional activities which enable students to learn about personal finance in real, fascinating, and meaningful ways.

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Excited students happy to be in class and learning from fulfilled and rewarded teachers. Sounds like a dream you say Not if you apply the methodology described in Extreme Teaching. This unusual book is a success story and a call to action that offers extreme solutions to help solve some of the problems of schools today.

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Extreme Teaching is a practical, realistic, energetic, and optimistic book, filled with ideas, case studies, penetrating questions, intriguing answers, and many topics for the reader to analyze. This book provides intellectual resources for readers to create new ideas which will work for their specific needs, challenges, and opportunities.