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The Absorbent Mind
Maria Montessori; With a new Foreword by John Chattin-McNichols, Ph.D., President of the American Montessori Society
Holt Paperbacks
The classic book that has inspired generations of teachers to foster each child's drive to learn.
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The Art of Teaching Art to Children
In School and at Home
Nancy Beal; With Gloria Bley Miller
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
An inspiring and comprehensive guide to art education. In this accessibly written guide for classroom and art teachers as well as parents, Nancy Beal shows...
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At Play
Teaching Teenagers Theater
Elizabeth Swados
Faber and Faber, Inc.
"Liz Swados has changed the lives of countless young people, and has changed the way all of us in the field think about making theater. Liz makes theater that matters; her fierce optimism that the world can be changed, by kids and by art, infuses this book as it does all her work. We are lucky to have her among us." —
Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, The Public Theater
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Basic Montessori
Learning Activities For Under-Fives
David Gettman
St. Martin's Griffin
For the first time, Basic Montessori opens the celebrated philosophy and method to a more general public. David Gettman has devised a clear and modern...
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Beer and Circus
How Big-Time College Sports Has Crippled Undergraduate Education
Murray Sperber
Holt Paperbacks
"Sperber now stands alone in his ability . . . to unravel and describe the forces that have given us the dismaying spectacle of big-time college sports . . . This is an important book that should worry anyone concerned with what is really wrong about American higher education."—
William Chace, president of Emory University
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The Big Test
The Secret History of the American Meritocracy
Nicholas Lemann; With a new Afterword
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
What do we know about the history, origin, design, and purpose of the SAT? Who invented it, and why? How did it acquire such a prominent and lasting position in American education?
The Big Test
reveals the ideas, people, and politics behind a fifty-year-old utopian social experiment that changed this country.
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Helen Bernstein Book Award - Nominee - Excellence in Journalism
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The Child That Books Built
A Life in Reading
Francis Spufford
Picador
In this extended love letter to children's books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his father, his...
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Class Dismissed
A Year in the Life of an American High School, A Glimpse into the Heart of a Nation
Meredith Maran
St. Martin's Griffin
"A terrific book, a marvelous work of on-site exploration, richly textured with the voices and yearnings and heartaches of young people. It deserves the widest possible attention. A fascinating page-turner and an admirable work."—
Jonathan Kozol, author of
Amazing Grace
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College Success
What It Means and How to Make It Happen
The College Board
College Board
"The College Board has done the educational community a great service by publishing this excellently chosen set of essays that focuses primarily on what happens to students after they enter college. Many of us have felt for some time that too much emphasis is often placed on who gets into college rather than on success in college. McPherson and Schapiro provide a valuable guide to the contents in their introduction, and readers will have no difficulty identifying the essays of particular interest to them."—
William Bowen, President Emeritus, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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Cross-X
The Amazing True Story of How the Most Unlikely Team from the Most Unlikely of Places Overcame Staggering Obstacles at Home and at School to Challenge the Debate Community on Race, Power, and Education
Joe Miller
Picador
"While
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Caroline Leavitt,
The Boston Globe
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Dangerous Minds
They Were Problem Kids With One Last Chance . . . Her
LouAnne Johnson
St. Martin's Paperbacks
She bullied, bluffed, and bribed her students into caring about school. And if that didn't work, the pretty, petite ex-marine told them she'd been trained...
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Dumbing Down Our Kids
Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, or Add
Charles J. Sykes
St. Martin's Griffin
Dumbing Down Our Kids is a searing indictment of America's secondary schools-one that every parent and teacher should read. Dumbing Down Our Kids offers a...
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Einstein Never Used Flashcards
How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D., and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D., with Diane Eyer, Ph.D.
Rodale Books
"Although parents know that the early years are learning years, just what that means has been confusing—until now.
Einstein Never Used Flash Cards
makes practical sense of the vast number of technical studies and the hyperbole of advertising claims. It explains in clear, compelling, and scientific terms how learning really takes place. This book is a must-read for parents, grandparents, teachers, caregivers, pediatricians, and policy makers—in other words, all those who care about (and for) the next generation of children."—
Ellen Galinsky, president and cofounder of the Families and Work Institute in New York City
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Fall River Dreams
A Team's Quest for Glory, A Town's Search for It's Soul
Bill Reynolds
St. Martin's Griffin
In this deeply felt, unforgettable book, Bill Reynolds journeys with a high school basketball team through the past and present of an American town. Fall...
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Front of the Class
How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had
Brad Cohen with Lisa Wysocky
St. Martin's Griffin
"Brad Cohen's story is a triumph of hope, determination, will, and relentless good humor. His approach to living with Tourette syndrome proves how much is possible when you expect the best of everyone, especially yourself.”—
Peter J. Hollenbeck, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Head of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
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Games for Learning
Ten Minutes a Day to Help Your Child Do Well in School—From Kindergarten to Third Grade
Peggy Kaye
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
In Games for Learning, Peggy Kaye, renowned teacher and author, gives parents more than seventy original, entertaining, and slyly educational ways to help...
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Games for Writing
Playful Ways to Help Your Child Learn to Write
Peggy Kaye
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
There is no skill more important for a child to master more than writing - and none more difficult or fraught with anxiety. Peggy Kaye, renowned teacher and...
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Games Girls Play
Understanding and Guiding Young Female Athletes
Caroline Silby, Ph.D., with Shelley Smith
St. Martin's Griffin
A Reviving Ophelia for soccer moms: Games Girls Play gives parents advice for encouraging their daughters to participate in sports and making sure their...
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Games with Books
Twenty-eight of the Best Children's Books and How to Use Them to Help Your Child Learn—From Preschool to Third Grade
Peggy Kaye
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Everyone knows how important it is to read with children. But how can you continue your child's learning experience and enjoyment of a story once you close...
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Get It Together for College, 2nd Edition
A Planner to Help You Get Organized and Get In
The College Board
College Board
Any high-school senior will tell you that the hardest part of applying to college is getting organized and staying on top of all the forms, requirements, and...
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Getting What You Came For
The Smart Student's Guide to Earning an M.A. or a Ph.D.
Robert Peters
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Is graduate school right for you? Should you get a master’s or a Ph.D.? How can you choose the best possible school? This classic guide helps...
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The Gutenberg Elegies
The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Sven Birkerts; With a New Introduction and Afterword
Faber and Faber, Inc.
"Birkerts' argument is persuasive, not only in its content but in its manner. His writing, which questions and muses at the leisurely pace of human speech, and which evinces both intelligence and feeling, reveals a complex individual personality, providing that vertical kind of connectedness that a thousand e-mail messages cannot."—
San Francisco Chronicle
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The Headmaster
Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield
John McPhee
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with...
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Higher Education?
How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---and What We Can Do About It
Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus
St. Martin's Griffin
“Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus have written a lucid, passionate and wide-ranging book on the state of American higher education and what they perceive as its increasing betrayal of its primary mission . . . In a series of well-structured and strongly argued chapters, the book [poses] searching and sometimes troubling questions.”—
The New York Times
“A powerful indictment of academic careerism. The authors are not shy about making biting judgments along the way . . . Higher education may be heading for a reckoning.”—
The Wall Street Journal
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