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Parents and Textbooks
Answers that Reveal Essential Steps for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Parents wondered exactly what was transpiring in classrooms. Although they asked their children, they did not have complete confidence in their responses. When they quizzed teachers, school administrators, school board members, and politicians, they realized that they sometimes had conflicting interests....
We Reap What We Sow
Modeling Positive Adulthood for Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
As anyone who lives, works, or spends any time with teenagers knows, adolescence can be both the best of times and the worst of times. Teenagers are undergoing miraculous, world-altering shifts. In light of these changes, how can society help adolescents move safely from teen to adult? How can adults...
Promoting Your School
A Public Relations Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1997
Schools today are experiencing pressures that have never been faced before. Very often members of the public do not know how their schools are doing, and as a result voters respond negatively. In Promoting Your School: A Public Relations Handbook, Irene Lober clearly describes various processes, methods,...
Support Your Child With Maths
In Their First Year at School
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
The first day at school is the day when an adventure of life-long learning begins and with a positive attitude your child will learn all the skills needed to equip them for adult life. The first year in school sets down the building blocks upon which all other learning takes place. Supporting your child...
Let's Play Math Sampler
Playful Math Singles
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Do you want your children to enjoy learning math?
Teach them how to play!
In excerpts from author Denise Gaskins's most popular books, the Let's Play Math Sampler features ten kid-tested games covering math concepts from counting to prealgebra.
Math games meet children each at...
Is College a Lousy Investment?
Negotiating the Hidden Costs of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Is College a Lousy Investment?: Negotiating the Hidden Cost of Higher Education discusses many of the economic misconceptions about earning a college degree. While it is widely believed that attending college guarantees wealth and success, students, concerned parents, and higher education professionals...
Dyslexia in Adolescence
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Dyslexia in Adolescence: Global Perspectives presents international case studies on the psychosocial development and academic progress of adolescents with dyslexia to enhance understanding of adjustment factors, outcomes and support. The continuation of a qualitative longitudinal research project...
Home Advantage
Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2000
This new edition contextualizes Lareau's original ethnography in a discussion of the most pressing issues facing educators at the beginning of the new millennium.
Toxic Childhood
How The Modern World Is Damaging Our Children And What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
One in six children in the developed world is diagnosed as having 'developmental or behavioural problems' - this book explains why and shows what can be done about it.
Children throughout the developed world are suffering: instances of obesity, dyslexia, ADHD, bad behaviour and so on are all...
Unlocking the Schoolhouse Door
Essays on the Misunderstandings of Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Reflective Playwork
For All Who Work with Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
In a world where we are ever seeking to protect our children and to encourage their educational progress, it is often overlooked that the need for play is as important as the need for food and sleep. Drawing on playwork methodology, theory and practice, this extensively revised new edition of Reflective...
by Pl Pellegrino, Gemma Doria
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 14, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 14, 2016
Se hai a cuore il futuro di tuo figlio, leggi questa storia:
Anni cinquanta. In una cucina, una madre sta aprendo delle lattine e ne versa il contenuto in una pentola a pressione. Suo figlio, un boy scout, vuole ottenere un premio come regista. Il padre gli ha comprato una cinepresa super8....
by Sylvia Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Understand what your child learns at Key Stage 1 and help your child to achieve the goals. Know how to support your child's school work at home. Build a strong partnership with your child's school and work together to achieve success.
by Kristy Stark
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Support all second graders with this engaging resource! Based on today's standards, the activities in this book are designed to develop students' skills in reading, word study, language, writing, mathematics, social studies, and science. It also features fun, yet challenging, critical-thinking and...