Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=6642&N=3+4019 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731421 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738442 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697540 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696378 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738333 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678798 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697592 The United States is known as a world leader in innovation, boasting brilliant thinkers and trendsetting companies, but that status is at grave risk. American children are well outside the top-ten international student rankings in reading, science, and math; those rankings--not to mention the nations position of leadership on everything from the economy to the military to issues of moral authority--will continue to plummet unless we take dramatic action. Michelle Rhee, a driving force behind American education reform, is ready to make a change. Here, this fearless and pioneering advocate draws on her own life story and delivers her plan for better American schools. Rhees goal is to ensure that laws, leaders, and policies are making students--not adults--our top priority, and she outlines concrete steps that will put us on a dramatically different course. --From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668587 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731444 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687137 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742073 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704126 Being a teenager has never been easy, but in recent years, with the rise of the Internet and social media, it has become exponentially more challenging. Bullying, once thought of as the province of queen bees and goons, has taken on new, complex, and insidious forms, as parents and educators know all too well. No writer is better poised to explore this territory than Emily Bazelon, who has established herself as a leading voice on the social and legal aspects of teenage drama. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698211 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704163 Bazelon defines what bullying is and, just as important, what it is not; explores when intervention is essential and when kids should be given the freedom to fend for themselves; dispels persistent myths about bullying; and takes her readers into schools that have succeeded in reducing bullying and examines their successful strategies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742010 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1660577 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742086 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693622 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684995 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675076 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697553 Documents the authors observations of circumstances reflected in a maximum-security prison and subsequent launch of a humanities college course for dropouts, immigrants and former inmates who eventually became high-achieving contributors to society. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731420 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683353 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742986 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738311 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705038 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711352 From Handprints to Hypotheses focuses on using the project approach--a teaching strategy that enables you to guide children through in-depth studies of real world topics--to scaffold very young childrens early learning. It provides information on creating sensory-based experiences--developmentally appropriate for toddlers and twos--that bring new perspectives and activities into the classroom-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731443 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742036 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704104 In Raising Global IQ, Carl Hobert calls on K-12 teachers, administrators, parents, and students alike to transform the educational system by giving students the tools they need to become responsible citizens in a shrinking, increasingly interdependent world. Drawing on his nearly thirty years teaching, developing curricula, and leading conflict-resolution workshops here and around the world, he offers creative, well-tested, and understandable pedagogical ideas to help improve our childrens GIQ: Global Intelligence Quotient. Cognizant of many U.S. schools limited budgets and time, Hobert advocates teaching foreign languages early in life, honing students conflict-resolution skills, providing creative-service learning opportunities, and offering cultural-exchange possibilities in students own communities, as well as nationally and abroad--all before they graduate from high school-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696458 ... written to help teachers in third, fourth, and fifth grades differentiate instruction for advanced and gifted learners. 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At other schools, athletes are catered to and coddled at every turn. At West Point, they carry the same arduous load as their fellow cadets, shouldering an Ivy League-caliber education and year-round military training. After graduation they are not going to the NFL but to danger zones halfway around the world. These young men are not just football players, they are soldiers first. New York Times sportswriter Joe Drape takes us inside the world of Army football, as the Black Knights and their third-year coach, Rich Ellerson, seek to turn around a program that had recently fallen on hard times, with the goal to beat Navy and sing last at the Army-Navy game in December. The 2011 season would prove a true test of the players mettle and perseverance. With unprecedented access to the players and the coaching staff, Drape introduces us to this special group of young men and their achievements on and off the field. Anchoring the narrative and the team are five key players: quarterback Trent Steelman, the most gifted athlete; linebacker Steve Erzinger, who once questioned his place at West Point but has become a true leader; Andrew Rodriguez, the son of a general and the top scholar-athlete; Max Jenkins, the backup quarterback and the second-in-command of the Corps of Cadets; and Larry Dixon, a talented first-year running back. Together with Coach Ellerson, his staff, and West Points officers and instructors, they and their teammates embrace the demands made on them and learn crucial lessons that will resonate throughout their lives--and ours-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1522596 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667999 Himself a discipline problem in high school, actor Tony Danza discusses his experiences during a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Philadelphias Northeast High School, exploring the difficulties and joys of keeping todays technologically savvy and often alienated students engaged. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697550 The founder of Young Rembrandts, discusses strategies to increase your visual learners success in school by identifying three key learning styles, visual study techniques, effective writing strategies and the visual needs of students with autism, ADD and dyslexia. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1534964 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1617662 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669088 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667414 Find The Right College For You : Thorough, easy-to-read profiles with photos of more than 100 colleges & universities throughout the United States and abroad. Helpful articles offering great tips for your college search - PLUS sample SAT questions, with detailed answer explanations to boost your test-prep efforts. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647578 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694332 Through 10 common scenarios plus culture and travel advice, this beginner level audio course will give you the skills for understanding and the confidence to speak French in just 10 days. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1582577 Subject Areas/Keywords: addictions, adolescents, alcoholism, assessments, binge drinking, campus, college students, counseling, developmental psychology, drugs, interventions, marijuana, prevention, public health, public policy, screening, substance abuse, underage drinking, young adults Description: Substance use among college students can result in serious academic and safety problems and have long-term negative repercussions. This state-of-the-art volume draws on the latest research on students alcohol and drug use to provide useful suggestions on how to address this critical issue on college campuses. Leading researchers from multiple disciplines examine the prevalence and nature of substance use by students; biological and neuropsychological considerations; psychological and social aspects; prevention; and policy. Exemplary programs are presented--including brief interventions, comprehensive prevention programs, and recovery support programs--enhancing the utility of the book for campus-based clinicians and administrators--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742985 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1558338 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1623470 A teacher-tested, research-based resource for dramatically improving reading skills. Published in partnership with WestEd, this significantly updated second edition of the bestselling book contains strategies for helping students in middle school through community college gain the reading independence to master subject area textbooks and other material. Based on the Reading Apprenticeship program, which three rigorous gold standard research studies have shown to be effective in raising students reading achievement. Presents a clear framework for improving the reading and subject area learning of all students, including English learners, students with special needs, as well as those in honors and AP courses. Provides concrete tools for classroom use and examples from a range of classrooms. Presents a clear how-to for teachers implementing the subject area literacies of the Common Core Standards. Reading for Understanding proves its never too late for teachers and students to work together to boost literacy, engagement, and achievement-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1586066 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1657305 Written for a broad yoga market that includes teachers, teacher trainers, studio owners, and students, Yoga Sequencing presents 67 sequences of poses designed for a range of yoga student experience and offers a comprehensive resource for designing and refining yoga classes-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1623994 Joe and Carol Reich have spent the past three decades and a personal fortune to help underprivileged children access the same kind of high quality education that wealthier Americans enjoy. Here, for the first time, they tell the true story of how they started one of the first charter schools in the country in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. When they first conceived of their school, Beginning With Children, no one had ever started an independent public school anywhere in the country. But since the Reiches began their work, the charter movement has spread like wildfire, offering children a way out of failing schools managed by byzantine bureaucracies through privately managed public schools accessible to all through a simple lottery. --From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298634 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1657331 Lost amid the debate over educational policies are the stories of the educators, parents, and students who are most affected by legislation such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. In Educational Courage, veteran educators and activists Nancy Schniedewind and Mara Sapon-Shevin bring together the voices of those who are resisting market-driven initiatives such as high-stakes testing, charter schools, mayoral control, and merit pay. The diverse narrators who write in this volume confront the educational agendas that undermine teachers judgment and knowledge, ignore the different backgrounds of students and parents, and debase the learning process. Yet these educators, parents, and activists also offer stories of resistance and hope as they fight to uphold the ideals of democratic public education. -- Publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1657328 Presents a study guide to the PRAXIS PPST and PLT exams, including subject reviews, practice drills, and nine full-length practice tests with answer explanations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1628005 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1623479 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1582143 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1545918 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1586068 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1636906 Data on more than 1,900 two-year colleges in the United States and abroad--with details on majors, costs, financial aid, student life, faculty, application information, and more--Cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1537229 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687211 Activities for Responsive Caregiving is filled with more than 80 developmentally appropriate activities and experiences that help young children acquire skills, build positive relationships, and optimize their intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development. This resource also provides strategies that support your role as a responsive caregiver-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615033 Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minorities, and students from low-income families. He describes the unique strengths of Americas colleges in our era of globalization and, while recognizing the growing centrality of science, technology, and vocational subjects in the curriculum, he mounts a vigorous defense of a broadly humanistic education for all. --from publisher description http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1657373 The 1960s and 1970s were a time of dramatic upheaval in American universities as a new generation of scholar-activists rejected traditional humanism in favor of a radical ideology that denied objective truth. In The Victims Revolution, critic and scholar Bruce Bawer provides the first history of this radical movement and a sweeping assessment of its intellectual and cultural fruits. Once, Bawer argues, the purpose of higher education had been to introduce students to the legacy of Western civilization. The new generation of radical educators sought instead to unmask the West as the perpetrator of global injustice. Age-old values were mere weapons in the struggle of the powerful against the powerless. Shifting the focus to the purported victims of imperialism gave rise to a series of identity-based programs. Bawer concludes that the influence of these programs has impoverished our thought, confused our politics, and filled the minds of their impressionable students with politically-correct mush.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1527487 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668201 A unique collaboration between the celebrated management thinker and Fifth Discipline author Peter Senge and a team of renowned educators and organizational change leaders, Schools that Learn describes how schools can adapt, grow, and change in the face of the demands and challenges of our society, and provides tools, techniques and references for bringing those aspirations to life--Publishers website. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671192 It was the end of an era, the last season before the surge of professional football began to lure the nations best young student-athletes away from the military academies. That fall, the Black Knights of Army were the class of the nation. Mark Beech, a second-generation West Pointer, recounts this memorable and never-to-be-repeated season with: Pete Dawkins, the Heisman Trophy winner who rose to the rank of Brigadier General The long-reclusive Bill Carpenter, the fabled lonesome end who earned the Distinguished Service Cross for saving his company in Vietnam Red Blaik, who led Army back to glory after the cribbing scandal and had the field at Michie Stadium named in his honor Combining the triumph of The Junction Boys with the heroics of The Long Gray Line, Beech captures a unique period in the history of football, the military, and mid-twentieth-century America. -- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393117 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669021 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647744 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668941 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1518281 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1613376 A blogger and former child actor recounts her misadventures in first-time homeschooling, an endeavor marked by her own math aversion, experiments with current trends, and a chaperone venture at a home-school prom. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393793 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624150 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1657333 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1522609 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671147 The founder of the Khan Academy -- the worlds most popular free online learning site -- tells the story of his schools astonishing success, and shares his revolutionary vision for the future of education. --Provided by the publisher-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1394029 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1586067 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706095 Economics is a huge subject, and this book is the perfect place to start. Designed specially for undergraduates, it includes features such as questions that may come up in exams, quotes from leading theorists that you can use in your essays, and case studies providing real-life examples. The book is written by Dr Thomas Coskeran, a lecturer at Durham University School of Business, who has been an advisor to both HM Treasury and the NHS. This really is the only book you need to start getting great results in economics.