Education

Bad Students, Not Bad Schools

Americans are increasingly alarmed over our nation's educational deficiencies. Robert Weissberg argues that the answer is something everybody knows to be true but is afraid to say in public, that this is a reflection of the demographic mix of students. This book is a bracing reminder of the risks of political manipulation of education and argues that the measure of policy should be academic achievement. 315 pp.

Author: Weissberg, Robert

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

ISBN: 9781412813457

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Category: Education / General

Binding: Hardcover

Price: $39.95

Debates in the Digital Humanities

Debates in the Digital Humanities brings together leading figures in the field to explore its theories, methods and practices and to clarify its multiple possibilities and tensions. Together, the essays suggest that the digital humanities is uniquely positioned to contribute to the revival of the humanities and academic life. 532 pp.

Author: Gold, Matthew K.

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

ISBN: 9780816677955

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Category: Education / Higher

Binding: Paper

Price: $34.95

Educating Young Giants

In her groundbreaking book, Educating Young Giants, Nancy Pine reveals how reliance on antiquated teaching methods and ineffectual reform efforts has left youth in the United States and China ill-equipped for the demands of modern technology and the global economy. 216 pp.

Author: Pine, Nancy

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN: 9780230339071

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Category: Education / Comparative

Binding: Paper

Price: $28.00

Educating Young Giants

In her groundbreaking book, Educating Young Giants, Nancy Pine reveals how reliance on antiquated teaching methods and ineffectual reform efforts has left youth in the United States and China ill-equipped for the demands of modern technology and the global economy. 216 pp.

Author: Pine, Nancy

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN: 9780230339064

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Category: Education / Comparative

Binding: Hardcover

Price: $90.00

Engaging Students with Archival and Digital Resources

Aimed at professional librarians and archivists, this book explores how to connect students and faculty with the archival and digital collections of their university’s library. 200 pp.

Author: Cotton, Justine & Sharron, David

Publisher: Neal-Schuman Pub (ALA)

ISBN: 9781843345688

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Category: Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General

Binding: Paper

Price: $85.00

Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads

This book analyzes the rate of change and the challenges the nation currently faces in developing a strong and diverse workforce. Although minorities are the fastest growing segment of the population, they are underrepresented in the fields of science and engineering. 286 pp.

Author: National Academy of Sciences

Publisher: National Academy Press

ISBN: 9780309159685

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Category: Education / Higher

Binding: Paper

Price: $40.00

Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits

This book is an invaluable guide for program and exhibit designers, evaluators, staff of science-rich informal learning institutions and community-based organizations, scientists interested in educational outreach, federal science agency education staff and K-12 science educators. 352 pp.

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academy Press

ISBN: 9780309119559

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Category: Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Science & Technology

Binding: Hardcover

Price: $49.95

On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research, 3/E

This book was designed to supplement the informal lessons in ethics as espoused by the scientific community and provided by research supervisors and mentors to graduate students in the sciences. Lessons offered apply not only to students but to all scientists at different stages of their scientific careers. 63 pp.

Author: National Academy of Sciences

Publisher: National Academy Press

ISBN: 9780309119702

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Category: Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Science & Technology

Binding: Paper

Price: $12.95

Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grade K-8

The book also provides a detailed examination of how we know what we know about children's learning of science—about the role of research and evidence. This book will be an essential resource for everyone involved in K-8 science education—teachers, principals, boards of education, teacher education providers and accreditors, education researchers, federal education agencies, and state and federal policy makers. It will also be a useful guide for parents and others interested in how children learn. 404 pp.

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academy Press

ISBN: 9780309102056

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Category: Education / Research

Binding: Hardcover

Price: $49.95

Teaching Information Literacy: 50 Standards-Based Exercises for College Students. Second Edition

Updated for today's ever-expanding world of electronic information, this resource is a must for fundamental information literacy instruction. Perfect for a full semester course or a single focused seminar or workshop, these 50 lessons show how to engage with electronic and print information resources alike. 152 pp.

Author: Burkhardt, Joanna M. & MacDonald, Mary C., with Andrée J. Rathemacher

Publisher: ALA Editions

ISBN: 9780838910535

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Category: Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Library Skills

Binding: Paper

Price: $52.00

Teaching Places

Whitson interweaves migration, evolution, family, landscape, noise, silence and song in a tale of spiritual search that calls her to the land, exploring how the land teaches. The telling spirals through loss of faith, loss of voice, and the finding of a different, broader faith and a deeper, stronger voice. 200 pp.

Author: Whitson, Audrey J.

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

ISBN: 9780889204256

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Category: Education / Reference

Binding: Paper

Price: $29.95

Transforming Information Literacy Instruction Using Learner-Centered Teaching

This indispensible resource has everything you need to help you incorporate learner-centered teaching (LCT) into information literacy instruction (ILI), combining important grounding in the discipline with usable instructions and tips. 326 pp.

Author: Kaplowitz, Joan R.

Publisher: Neal-Schuman Pub (ALA)

ISBN: 9781555707651

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Category: Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Library Skills

Binding: Paper

Price: $75.00

Using Web 2.0 and Social Networking Tools in the K-12 Classroom

Looking for sound new ways to use Web 2.0 tools in K-12 education and ready-to-teach units that support curricular standards? Your search is over with this comprehensive guide. 250 pp.

Author: Crane, Beverley E.

Publisher: Neal-Schuman Pub (ALA)

ISBN: 9781555707743

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Category: Education / Computers & Technology

Binding: Paper

Price: $64.95

Voices of Determination

This book tells the stories of 10 children who overcame extraordinarily difficult circumstances to get an education. The young people featured were forced to navigate around the practical realities of poverty, abuse, immigration, sub-par health care and struggles with addiction. 204 pp.

Author: Chavous, Kevin P.

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

ISBN: 9781412842679

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Category: Education / Philosophy & Aspects

Binding: Hardcover

Price: $34.95