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Did you know that you as a parent can actually be the difference between your child succeeding and failing at school? If your child is struggling in Elementary School or Primary School, then you can help them to grasp the basic essential skills in Reading, Writing, Spelling, Math and Scientific Processes.
Over the past 30 years Karen Campbell and Katrina Kahler (both expert teachers and parenting advisors) have assisted hundreds of parents who wanted...
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Martín y Upendo son dos niños aparentemente muy distintos. La primera vez que se encuentren descubrirán que las diferencias entre ellos son pocas y no impiden conocer el valor de la amistad.
Chocolate y merengue es un cuento lleno de cosas ricas, una invitación a darle una probadita a lo que no conocemos. Es el primer texto para niños del escritor venezolano Ricardo Cie, autor también de Historia de un árbol y Chamoch. Las ilustraciones son...
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"Basic Inorganic and Organic Chemistry" is a comprehensive textbook that serves as an essential introduction to the fundamental concepts of both inorganic and organic chemistry. The book covers a wide range of topics, starting from the atomic structure and periodic trends to the principles of chemical bonding, molecular shapes, and reactivity. In the inorganic chemistry section, it explores the properties and behaviors of main group elements, transition...
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Roosevelt Montás is senior lecturer at Columbia University's Center for American Studies and director of its Freedom and Citizenship Program, which introduces low-income high school students to the Western political tradition through the study of foundational texts. From 2008 to 2018, he was director of Columbia's Center for the Core Curriculum. He lives in New York City. Twitter @rooseveltmontas
A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how...
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How would things be different if everyone adopted learning as a way of life? Can intentional, messy, audacious learning unlock the power to live meaningfully and contribute to the world?
The human capacity for learning has enormous potential, but most of us are stuck with the passive belief that learning is "a thing that happens to you." Imagine if instead humans made the deliberate choice to learn rather than checking boxes on a syllabus. How can...
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Utilizing a common set of objective institutional markers as a compass, this book guides readers through the terrain of various Christian institutions.
The Christian higher education landscape confuses many people. Future students, parents, staff, and even faculty often do not understand the important subtleties and nuances. They need a guide that empirically explores the ways Christian universities operationalize their Christian identity. This book...
68) Blind Spots
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In the United States, a majority of students graduate below proficiency in all academic subjects. Parents of struggling students feel overwhelmed and confused about how to help their children simply survive school, let alone succeed. Various school reform efforts have been tried to no avail. But all hope is not lost. A science exists that allows children to learn as individuals even though at school they are educated in groups-one that avoids senseless...
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Play & Culture Studies is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed series published by the Association for the Study of Play. For forty years The Association for the Anthropological Study of Play (TAASP), now The Association for the Study of Play (TASP) has served as the premier professional organization in academia dedicated to interdisciplinary research and theory construction concerning play. During that time TASP has promoted the study of play, forged alliances...
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Want to Teach Your Kids the Names of Things found around the School in Filipino?Wonder How They're Pronounced?Enhance your learning experience with our complimentary audio recordings. Follow the link in the book to not only read but also listen and familiarize yourself with authentic Filipino pronunciation.Delight in learning Filipino with our vivid picture book!Key Features of the Book: Filipino Names for Things found around the School.Vibrant Illustrations...
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The purpose of this book is to help international students navigate the academic issues they will encounter while attending graduate school in the United States. This book provides guidelines for conquering the obstacles that international graduate students often face, such as developing independent ideas based on required readings, participating in classroom discussions effectively, organizing academic papers, and effectively managing academic work...
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Playing Is Learning
The research is clear: Play is a critical part of the learning process for young children. Early childhood educators have the opportunity to deeply and meaningfully scaffold children's learning by curating and organizing the "stuff" children love to play with most. With this book, discover ideas for both familiar and new play materials and how those materials support the cognitive, social and emotional, and physical learning and...
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Reading to your children has been recommended to parents of young children for decades by literacy experts. The act of shared book reading can promote academic, language, and literacy development, this is grounded in research. Not all shared book reading, however, is equally effective. In Parents Make the Difference: Nourishing Literacy Development through Shared book Reading, Susan Voorhees guides parents to conduct enjoyable and productive book...
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Host of the “Unapologists” Podcast, teacher, writer and former professional magician Vito Michienzi has spent his life focusing on connecting with young people.
As the education field continues to get flooded with guides on what makes the best practice for engaging students, Vito takes a step back and asks the most important question: What really matters?
If you're feeling overwhelmed by the resources out there and feel uncertain about yourself...
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“Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education” is the first volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without systematic attempts to align what honors means across institutions, and absent a universally agreed upon definitions of what honors is and...
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Teaching for nearly 40 years, Malcolm Gauld has watched thousands of high school graduates head off to college. After a while, he began to notice some unmistakable patterns-good and bad-relating to students after they hit college. About a decade ago, he began giving an annual talk to high school seniors in hopes of sending them off to college on a positive note. This led to the book “College Success Guaranteed: 5 Rules to Make it Happen” (Rowman...
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Are you frustrated or confused by the way math is taught to your child today? Are you tired of trying to figure out what your child is doing when they draw visuals in math? Do you want to feel smarter than a 5th grader again? Well, this book is for you. We have taken the major parts of the 21st Century mathematics curriculum and rewritten it in an easy-to-read format. This book breaks down all the educational jargon so you can finally communicate...
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Once upon a time there was a wise and kind educator. He wanted to teach children all about the exciting world of business. The educator believed that every child should have the opportunity to learn the basics of running a business and the importance of being an entrepreneur.
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Is the end in sight for college tuition hikes?
Tuition and fees at public colleges and universities consistently have risen twice or even three times as fast as comparable increases in the Consumer Price Index in recent years. Since 2000 these costs have even grown 60 percent faster than health care costs. The results have been rapidly rising student debt (now $1.4 trillion nationally), rising delinquencies in debt repayment, and a dysfunctional stratification...
80) Māori-inspired AI Furniture and AI Tool Design (New Zealand). Including an Overview of Traditional M
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This eBook or article aims to give a short overview of traditional Māori Furniture and tools. Garden tools - the hoe or paddle - are one of the focuses-Māori-inspired shapes, forms and patterns for hardwood chairs and side tables. I also include ideas for a mild steel side or coffee table-concepts at the end. Towards the end - just for fun and inspiration - I include AI-generated images (Midjourney) to inspire readers, artists, carpenters, furniture...
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