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“michael sovern”

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  • An Improbable Life

    My Sixty Years at Columbia and Other Adventures

    by Michael Sovern ...
    Columbia University began the second half of the twentieth century in decline, bottoming out with the student riots of 1968. Yet by the close of the century, the institution had regained its stature as one of the greatest universities in the world.According to the New York Times, "If any one person is responsible for Columbia's recovery, it is surely Michael Sovern." In this memoir, Sovern, who ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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    When Lilah Jane Tunkle fled her dull life in Virginia for the bright lights of New York City, she didn't expect to wind up a nanny to a gorgeous celebrity chef's ten-year-old son. Working for the delectable Devon Sparks is a sure-fire recipe for disaster, especially after Lilah gets a tantalizing taste of his perfectly seasoned kisses …Devon's not sure he can handle one more surprise ingredient in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • To Teach

    The Journey, in Comics

    by William Ayers, Ryan Alexander-Tanner ...
    This graphic novel brings to life William Ayers’s bestselling memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Third Edition. From Ayers’s early days teaching kindergarten, readers follow this renowned educational theorist on his “voyage of discovery and surprise.” We meet fellow travelers from schools across the country and watch students grow across a year and a lifetime.To Teach is a vivid, honest ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • I Got Schooled

    The Unlikely Story of How a Moonlighting Movie Maker Learned the Five Keys to Closing America's Education Gap

    by M. Night Shyamalan ...
    In this vital book, the famed filmmaker tells how his passion for education reform led him to learn that there are five tested, indispensable keys to transforming America’s underperforming schools.Famed director M. Night Shyamalan has long had a serious interest in education. The foundation he and his wife started once gave college scholarships to promising inner-city students, but Shyamalan ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Trusting Teachers with School Success

    What Happens When Teachers Call the Shots

    by Kim Farris-Berg, Edward J. Dirkswager, Amy Junge ...
    Lately, our nation’s strategy for improving our schools is mostly limited to “getting tough” with teachers. Blaming teachers for poor outcomes, we spend almost all of our energy trying to control teachers’ behavior and school operations. But what if all of this is exactly the opposite of what is needed? What if teachers are the answer and not the problem? What if trusting teachers, and not ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Positively Smarter

    Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well-Being

    by Marcus Conyers, Donna Wilson ...
    Positively Smarter brings together seven principles for connecting the science of neuroplasticity to practical strategies for enhancing the synergy of happiness, achievement, and physical well-being. Moving beyond common myths, the text builds an evidence-based paradigm to empower readers to take practical steps to move forward.Brings together current research on cognitive psychology, education ... Read more

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  • Towards a Convergence Between Science and Environmental Education

    The selected works of Justin Dillon

    by Justin Dillon ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    In the World Library of Educationalists, international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces—extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical contributions—so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers thus are able to follow the themes and strands of their work and see their ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Harvard Law Review: Volume 126, Number 8 - June 2013

    by Harvard Law Review ...
    The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents and URLs, linked notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 8 include:Article, "Racial Capitalism," by Nancy LeongEssay, "Shallow Signals," by Bert I. HuangBook Review, "All Unhappy Families: Tales of Old Age, Rational Actors, and the Disordered Life," by Ariela R. DublerBook Review, "Lawyers, Law, and ... Read more

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  • Learning to Teach

    A Critical Approach to Field Experiences

    by Natalie G. Adams, Christine Mary Shea, Delores D. Liston, Bryan Deever ...
    This text is designed to assist preservice and inservice teachers in creating a critical and reflective dialogue with themselves, their assigned classroom cultures, and the larger school environment. It engages readers in a series of classroom and school-based activities, observations, and exercises that can be used in any teacher education course with a field component. Different from other field ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Handbook of Research in the Social Foundations of Education

    Edited by Steven Tozer, Bernardo P. Gallegos, Annette Henry, Mary Bushnell Greiner, Paula Groves Price ...
    Parts one and two of this volume present the theoretical lenses used to study the social contexts of education. These include long-established foundations disciplines such as sociology of education and philosophy of education as well as newer theoretical perspectives such as critical race theory, feminist educational theory, and cultural studies in education. Parts three, four, and five ... Read more

    $190.00 USD

  • Community, Hierarchy and Open Education (RLE Edu L)

    by Gary Easthope ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    The book describes the English school, especially the secondary school, as a hierarchical community in which the head-teacher (principal) is an autocratic ruler. After explaining how that particular organisation of the school developed historically from the market situation faced by the English public (i.e. private) schools in the developing industrial society of the nineteenth century it provides ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • We Need to Talk about Religious Education

    Manifestos for the Future of RE

    by Neil McKain, Peter Schreiner, Sushma Sahajpal, Adam Whitlock, Kathryn Wright, Phil Champain, Dawn Cox, Clive Lawton, James Robson, Dr Richard Kueh, Derek Holloway, Mary Myatt, Gillian Georgiou, Andy Lewis, Zameer Hussain ...
    Although Religious Education (RE) is a legal requirement in UK schools, it is an oft-neglected and misunderstood subject. It is important to seriously re-think this key subject at this time of low religious literacy and rising extremism, to protect communities from the consequences of hatred and misunderstanding. This book promotes a public discussion of what exactly is needed from a new model of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD