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In Tyranny of the Textbook, a retired educational director, gives a fascinating look behind-the-scenes of how K-12 textbooks are developed, written, adopted, and sold. Readers will come to understand why all the reform efforts have failed. Most importantly, the author clearly spells out how the system can change so that reforms and standards have a shot at finally being effective.

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This groundbreaking work, specially designed for the music classroom, combines traditional and popular literature in a method that both teaches the ukulele and develops music literacy. Assuming no prior knowledge, the leveled content allows students to track their progress and teachers to reward benchmark achievements.

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"With satirical wit and philosophical rigor, Higgins critiques the empty rhetoric of the contemporary university, and articulates a vision of what substantive formative education could be"--

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This book provides activities and examples that use technological tools to help students learn how to create digital texts. This book also provides a basis for creating novel classroom activities that encourage students to define purpose and audience, make textual links, collaborate, gain new perspectives, and construct identities through writing.

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An accessible introduction to Judaism and its teaching in primary and secondary classrooms.

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In Understanding the Whole Student, the authors contend that good education is, and must be, multicultural in order to gain a deeper perspective on issues under analysis in the classroom through the sharing and negotiating of many different cultural perspectives.

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University Ethics not only highlights the ethical shortfalls of colleges today on topics ranging from sexual violence to the treatment of adjuncts but also proposes solutions based on best practices. Essential reading for anyone connected to higher education, the book proposes creating an integrated culture of ethics university-wide.

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University Life provides an honest inside view of academic life and study, with advice and strategies for making the most of your time in higher education.

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Thrills and chills, witches, ghosts, and goblinsthese terrifying teaching tools dont need to be controversial to inspire reluctant readers in grades K-6. Cross-curricular lesson plans are linked to language arts, social studies, math, art and technology.

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By incorporating the 2013 NAGC/CEC Teacher Preparation Standards in Gifted and Talented Education, this guidebook helps university faculty at the undergraduate and graduate levels design or revise gifted education programs and partner with other educators in developing gifted education teachers.

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Using the Schoolwide Enrichment Model in Mathematics: A How-to Guide for Developing Student Mathematicians applies the teaching and learning strategies of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) to the math classroom.

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This accessible and highly practical guide is rich with examples that will change the way you think about education while providing hands-on how-to guidance for creating a culture of excellence and innovation in your school and classroom.

Universal Talented and Gifted Screener (UTAGS) is a teacher rating scale designed to screen potentially gifted students in six important areas of school success: cognition, creativity, leadership, literacy, math, and science.

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"An educational ethnography focusing on the uses of technology within a purposely inclusive elementary school that integrates students with and without disabilities in the same classroom setting"--

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Devoted to making lists about everything in his life, Wallace the mouse discovers the joys of spontaneity and adventure when he becomes friends with his neighbor Albert.

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This joyful Sesame Street song embraces the notion that no matter where children live, what they look like, or what they do, they're all the same where it counts--at heart.

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A collection of reissued stories with simple vocabulary featuring Dick, Jane, and other familiar characters.

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