Donald Thomas: 49 books

Book cover of Bridging the High School-College Gap

Bridging the High School-College Gap

The Role of Concurrent Enrollment Programs

by Susan Henderson, Barbara D. Hodne, E. J. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016

Concurrent enrollment programs offer high-achieving high school students the opportunity to take college credit-bearing courses taught by college-approved high school teachers. This low-cost, scalable model brings accelerated coursework to urban, suburban, and rural students. In this book, scholars...
Book cover of Pushing the Pencil
by Donald Wilcox Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012

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...
Book cover of Medicinal Chemistry

Medicinal Chemistry

A Molecular and Biochemical Approach

by Thomas Nogrady, Donald F. Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005

Fully updated and rewritten by a basic scientist who is also a practicing physician, the third edition of this popular textbook remains comprehensive, authoritative and readable. Taking a receptor-based, target-centered approach, it presents the concepts central to the study of drug action in a logical,...
Book cover of Ozymandia: Notes on Teaching & Learning
by Donald Wilcox Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017

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).
Book cover of Schoolmastery: Notes on Teaching and Learning
by Donald Wilcox Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006

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...
Book cover of Far Reaches of Instruction
by Donald Wilcox Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016

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...
Book cover of Les enfants de Roswell
by Donald Schmitt, Thomas Carey
Language: French
Release Date: June 1, 2017

Les enfants des témoins principaux de l'affaire Roswell racontent : menaces et intimidations du gouvernement américain sur leurs familles
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