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Twelve-term Texas Congressman, presidential candidate, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with a highly provocative treatise about how we need to fundamentally change the way we think about America's broken education system in order to fix it. He provides a focused solution that centers on strong support for home schooling and the application of free market principles in the American education system.
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"The unforgettable true story of one man's escape from the school-to-prison pipeline, how he reinvented himself as a pastor and education reform advocate, and what his journey can teach us about turning the collateral damage in the lives of our youth into collateral hope"
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A guide for teachers that defines and explains best practice teaching in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies, and includes strategies for meeting state and Common Core State Standards, classroom vignettes, and tips for special education, struggling readers, the arts, and technology in the classroom.
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"America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one in which a college degree benefits only to those in the top income brackets. In Degrees of Inequality, acclaimed political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains why the system has gone so horribly wrong and why the American Dream is increasingly out of reach for so many. In her eye-opening account,...
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"The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability....
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"Learn how to increase rigor so that all students can reach higher levels of learning! In this new edition of a best seller, author Barbara R. Blackburn offers practical ideas for raising expectations, increasing complexity, integrating scaffolding into instruction, creating open-ended choices and projects, and much more. This timely new edition provides connections to rigorous standards, plus it features new sections on topics such as questioning...
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In 'A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College,' Ryan Craig documents the early days of a revolution that will transform--or make obsolete--many colleges and universities. Alternative routes to great first jobs that do not involve a bachelor's degree are sprouting up all over the place. Bootcamps, income-share programs, apprenticeships, and staffing models are attractive alternatives to great jobs in numerous growing sectors of the economy:...
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In this comprehensive response to the education crisis, the author of Teaching as a Subversive Activity returns to the subject that established his reputation as one of our most insightful social critics. Postman presents useful models with which schools can restore a sense of purpose, tolerance, and a respect for learning.
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"Best practice is the pillar that supports powerful teaching, and the first two editions of the highly acclaimed Best Practice have promoted instructional excellence for more than ten years. Now this third edition, with forty-five percent new material, does still more to make the big ideas of education accessible by identifying the teaching methods that help students learn, explaining how to implement them in the classroom, and showing what exemplary...
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The United States is known as a world leader in innovation, boasting brilliant thinkers and trendsetting companies, but that status is at grave risk. American children are well outside the top-ten international student rankings in reading, science, and math; those rankings--not to mention the nation's position of leadership on everything from the economy to the military to issues of moral authority--will continue to plummet unless we take dramatic...
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Ten9Eight chronicles the inspirational stories of several teens from low-income communities (from Harlem to Compton and all points in between) as they compete in the 2008 "National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge" annual business plan competition sponsored by National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE).
Special features: trailer; interview with the director; stories of Rahfeal, Huong, Eric, Sekeithia; performances by Eric, Sekeithia,...