Educación y ayuda escolar / Pedagogía

Schooling Poor Minority Children: New Segregation in the Post-Brown Era

de Martha R. Bireda

Schooling Poor Minority Children: New Segregation in the Post-Brown Era explores the 'redesign of school segregation' and explains why resegregation of schools in the post-Brown era is so destructive for poor...

Testing for Kindergarten: Simple Strategies to Help Your Child Ace the Tests for: Public School Placement, Private School Admissions, Gifted Program Q

de Karen Quinn

BY THE AGE OF 5, MOST CHILDREN IN AMERICA WILL TAKE SOME KIND OF INTELLIGENCE TEST.

Whether your child is going to a private kindergarten or a public school, he or she will most likely be tested—and placed...

Seven Secrets of the Savvy School Leader: A Guide to Surviving and Thriving

de Robert Evans

The keys to having an outstanding career as a school leader.

The American educational system is in crisis; trends of recent years have been extraordinarily hard on educators. An entire generation of school leaders...

Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them

de Ross W Greene

From a distinguished clinician, pioneer in working with behaviorally challenging kids, and author of the acclaimed The Explosive Child comes a groundbreaking approach for understanding and helping these kids...

The Educated Child: A Parents Guide From Preschool Through Eighth Grade

de William J. Bennett, Jr., Chester E. Finn & Jr., John T. E. Cribb

If you care about the education of a child, you need this book. Comprehensive and easy to use, it will inform, empower, and encourage you.

Just as William J. Bennett's The Book of Virtues has helped millions...

The Road to Home: My Life and Times

de Vartan Gregorian

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Crashproof Your Kids

de Timothy C. Smith

BEFORE YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT HANDING YOUR TEENS THE CAR KEYS, DO EVERYONE A BIG FAVOR: CRASHPROOF THEM!

Every year, six million sons and daughters will become first-time drivers. Fifty-eight percent of them...

Big Man on Campus: A University President Speaks Out on Higher Education

de Stephen Joel Trachtenberg

An eye-opening and at times controversial insider's look at the current state of higher education in America, from one of the nation's most distinguished and down-to-earth university presidents.

At a time...

Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion can Lead to a Lifetime of Success

de James Marcus Bach

"A Buccaneer-Scholar is anyone whose love of learning is not muzzled or shackled by any institution or authority; whose mind is driven to wander and find its own place in the world."

The volatility of the job...

The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College

de Jacques Steinberg

In the fall of 1999, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg was given an unprecedented opportunity to observe the admissions process at prestigious Wesleyan University. Over the course of nearly...

The Shaping of American Higher Education: Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System

de Arthur M. Cohen & Carrie B. Kisker

Similar to the first edition, The Shaping of American Higher Education combines historical and current events up to the mid 1990s. In this edition though, the revised text provides updated data and tables, new...

It's Okay to Be the Boss: Participant Workbook

de Bruce Tulgan

A companion to the dynamic It's Okay to Be the Boss: The Management Workshop, this Participant Workbook is a hands-on resource that will help you learn how to overcome the common obstacles to becoming an engaged...

Small Schools, Big Ideas: The Essential Guide to Successful School Transformation

de Mara Benitez, Jill Davidson & Laura Flaxman

Small Schools, Big Ideas shows how the principle-based and equity-focused model from the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) can be used to redesign existing schools and create new schools that prepare students...

Comics to Classics: A Guide to Books for Teens and Preteens

de Arthea J. S. Reed

In this guidebook, Arthea Reed shows parents how to choose books for adolescents of every skill and maturity level--and how to help expand their reading interests by building upon their existing tastes. Reed...

Preparing Principals for a Changing World: Lessons from Effective School Leadership Programs

de Linda Darling-Hammond

Preparing Principals for a Changing World provides a hands-on resource for creating and implementing effective policies and programs for developing expert school leaders. Written by acclaimed author and educator...

Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan

de Greg Mortenson

From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian’s efforts to promote peace through education   In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson...

Trump University Entrepreneurship 101: How to Turn Your Idea Into a Money Machine

de Michael E. Gordon, Deanna S. Forney & Florence M. Guido

An up-to-date and expanded edition of the Trump guide to starting a business

Although he has ups and downs like every entrepreneur, Donald Trump is one of the world’s most famous entrepreneurs for good reason—he’s...

Strategy-Driven Talent Management: A Leadership Imperative

de Susan E. Israel, Rob Silzer & Janice F. Almasi

Professionals are searching for an integrated approach to building and sustaining leadership talent. This volume in the SIOP Professional Practice series provides an up-to-date perspective on current talent...

Homeschooling: A Family's Journey

de Martine Millman

This intimate, eminently practical memoir of a successful homeschooled family of six children illuminates today’s most exciting choice in education, and shows how it works from cradle to college.

What is it...

Quality School Teacher RI

de William Glasser

This book is the follow-up to its immediate predecessor, The Quality School. Based on the work of W. Edwards Deming and on Dr. Glasser's own choice theory, it is written for teachers who are trying to abandon...