A quirky collection of true stories from the stranger side of teaching, including how a fight with his teacher paved the way for Al Capone's infamous crime empire, and the bizarre tale of the American teacher who sued her own pupils.
From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Andersonville comes the story of an unforgettable moment in American history: the historic meeting between General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant that led to the surrender of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia--and ultimately to the end of the Civil ...
Revue française de sociologie. " L'ouvrage offre un panorama d'ensemble structuré par une question centrale : y a-t-il, ou non, pérennité des inégalités sociales de scolarisation ? Bien documenté et rédigé dans un style concis, l'ouvrage fournit, au total, une vue d'ensemble suggestive des changements ...
"An intimate look at America's historically rooted struggle to adequately educate vulnerable children, and a call to action to those in positions of power who are able to open doors of opportunity. You wouldn't guess it by listening to our elected officials, but education is the civil rights issue of ...
Co-authored by Gen Z social media mavens Jasmine Shao of @studyquill and Alyssa Jagan of @craftyslimecreator, Study with Me presents practical strategies for studying smarter and staying focused and motivated drawn from bullet journaling, hand lettering, and organizational techniques.
Drawing and writing exercises, maps and Venn diagrams, match-ups and mazes, and other engaging activities explain photosynthesis, evaporation, erosion, tree rings, and more fascinating aspects of nature.
These classic poems will help introduce children to phonics and spelling concepts through rhyming words — each story promotes reading fluency as well. Also includes letter tracing, simple Sudoku problems, and other entertaining exercises.
Thirty safety pictures provide youngsters with hours of coloring fun while they're learning important "no-no's" — "Don't skate on thin ice," "Never talk to strangers," "Don't chase balls into the street," and more. Free Teacher's Manual available. Grades: Pre-K to K.
Stimulate the imagination and develop children's confidence as they begin to talk while also instilling an enthusiasm for reading and a life-long love of books.
Two things are urgently needed in the teaching profession today: an understanding of real children, not theoretical ones, and intelligent humour. The Bitter Root offers readers a beautifully concise and readable book, as well as a mixture of nonsense and wisdom, frivolity and sound sense. It is written ...
A primary school teacher is drawn into the psycho-drama of the head who alternates between scrubbing Lego and preying on the weak members of staff, while the strong, a law unto themselves, run the school.
This book is the solution manual to the textbook 'A Modern Course in University Physics'. It contains solutions to all the problems in the aforementioned textbook.This solution manual is a good companion to the textbook. In this solution manual, we work out every problem carefully and in detail. With ...
The outstanding performance of East Asian societies in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is one of the most widely discussed topics in international assessments. PISA is a worldwide study of scholastic performance, conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ...
Based on the author's experience in teaching his grandchildren mathematics the fun way, this book provides the knowledge and skills to teach math to young children, through learning games with playing cards. This book can be of help to children to progress in math in the kindergarten and school.
Games are seen only for recreation. However, this book shows that games can be used to strengthen problem-solving skills and beyond. This book presents strategy games and discusses for each one solutions towards a winning position in the game. In most cases, these strategies are analogous to problem-solving ...
World university ranking started one and a half decades ago for the purpose of understanding what makes an excellent institution of higher education. Subsequent to the appearance of the Academic Ranking of World Universities at the Shanghai Jiaotong University, there soon emerged the QS World University ...
