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  • West Nile Virus 2012

    The Sign and Symptom Guide

    by Donald Wilcox ...
    The summer of 2012 may go down in record or be remembered as the United States worst outbreak of the West Nile virus ever. Health experts have said that with record number of new cases, 1200, that measures need to be taken to reduce the transmission to humans. Included in the 1200 that have become infected, nearly 50 people have died. Texas has been particularly devastated by the West Nile virus, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Ozymandia: Notes on Teaching & Learning

    by Donald Wilcox Thomas ...
    This book comprises a series of thirty-one essays addressing all aspects of teaching and learning in our schools. Each essay addresses a single aspect of secondary education (e.g., choice, libraries, grit, grading, exams, and so forth). ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Far Reaches of Instruction

    by Donald Wilcox Thomas ...
    In schools of antiquity, according to Alfred North Whitehead, philosophers aspired to impart wisdom. In modern colleges, our humbler aim is to teach subjects. The drop from divine wisdom, which was the goal of the ancients, to textbook knowledge of subjects, which is achieved by the moderns, marks an educational failure, sustained through the ages. He defines wisdom as the way in which knowledge ... Read more

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  • Pushing the Pencil

    by Donald Wilcox Thomas ...
    From the essays Teachers must learn how to push the pencil, effecting ease and simplicity out of hard learning that leaves a deep and permanent impression upon youthful thought. Having high expectations is laudable but woefully inadequate for overcoming the disparities that lurk in the deep recesses of our broad domain. More teaching, whether good or bad, is lost somewhere between class and lunch ... Read more

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  • Schoolmastery: Notes on Teaching and Learning

    by Donald Wilcox Thomas ...
    Significant change usually comes about not by introduction of something new but by reinterpretation of something old. Among the more interesting illustrations of this premise is that of Arthur C. Clarke, who in 2001: A Space Odyssey uses it to account for no less than the evolution of mankind. Back eons of time, so the story goes, herbivorous man-apes roamed the parched savannas of Africa in ... Read more

    $8.69 USD