Student category: 717 books
Fun Facts to Engage Students
Questions to Inspire Thinking and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Curious about the world around you? Brushing up for Trivia Night? Studying for a test? Looking for new dinner-table discussion topics?
Take a deep-dive into subjects you may have learned about in school, but not in the kind of depth you wanted or needed. Entertaining, educational, and full...
by Chuck Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
underage drinking has become a global epidemic of phenomenal proportions. Unfortunately most parents, teens and educators are concerned only with underage drinking and driving which can result in tragic auto accidents. As tragic as these accidents are they are a small fraction of the problem of the underage...
by Denise Clark Pope
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book offers a highly revealing-and troubling-view of today’s high school students and the ways they pursue high grades and success. Denise Pope, veteran teacher and curriculum expert, follows five motivated and successful students through a school year, closely shadowing them and engaging them...
The Indoor Epidemic
How Parents, Teachers, and Kids Can Start an Outdoor Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
The Indoor Epidemic is an accessible, readable book that educators, parents, policymakers, and general readers can use to develop an in-depth understanding of the role the outdoors has played in our evolutionary and cultural history—and how it affects their own daily life. Readers will be astounded...
PUBLIC SCHOOL ADVENTURES
One Educator's Unusual 36 Year Journey Into and Through Our Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Public School Adventures is the story of one educator’s unusual and convoluted journey into and through our public schools. It follows his unlikely 36 year trip into teaching, and shares many real life stories about his students and their parents and teachers. The story continues through his years...
Rebels in Society
The Perils of Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Rebels in Society: The Perils of Adolescence is a true journey into the world of adolescents gone bad. This book reveals the inner workings of adolescents who have been caught up in pathology and the juvenile justice system. The first part of the book highlights juvenile sex offenders, juvenile serial...
Healthy Children
How Parents, Teachers and Community Can Help To Prevent Obesity in Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book is geared towards educators, teachers, administrators and parents of young children especially with health issues. The book will contribute to the literature in the field focusing on national and international concern about childhood obesity, highlighting the problems with obesity pre-diabetes,...
by Anita Harris
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Unlike as with previous generations, diversity and multiculturalism are engrained in the lives of today’s urban youth. Within their culturally diverse urban environments, young people from different backgrounds now routinely encounter one another in their everyday lives and negotiate and contest...
Citizenship and Moral Education
Values in Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Moral and citizenship education are again at the forefront of educational attention with the recent governmental announcements about revisions to the National Curriculum frameworks to 2000 and beyond.
This book addresses some of the central issues in moral and citizenship education facing teachers...
Race and Social Change
A Quest, A Study, A Call to Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
A powerful study illuminates our nation's collective civic fault lines
Recent events have turned the spotlight on the issue of race in modern America, and the current cultural climate calls out for more research, education, dialogue, and understanding. Race and Social Change: A Quest, A Study,...
by Frances Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
If you are starting college or know someone who is, this concise and powerful book will provide the tools every freshman needs. Success in the first year of college means more than a high GPA. To be truly successful in college and beyond requires emotional intelligence. Average 2 Awesome will guide...
Opportunity and Hope
Transforming Children's Lives through Scholarships
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The U.S. education system is not meeting the needs of all our children, especially those who are economically disadvantaged. For too many families, income level and ZIP code determine the quality of education available to their children. The need to give all children access to a good education, a...
A Prison Called School
Creating Effective Schools for All Learners
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Many students struggle to survive a system that has become yet another obstacle in their life to overcome. The current, one-size-fits-all educational model requires students to adapt to the system, but in order for students to thrive, schools, not the students, must change in deep and substantial...
Literacy and Mobility
Complexity, Uncertainty, and Agency at the Nexus of High School and College
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Pushing forward research on emerging literacies and theoretical orientations, this book follows students from different tracks of high school English in a "failing" U.S. public school through their first two years in universities, colleges, and jobs. Analytical and methodological tools from...