| 1. |  | Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
from Touchstone
Price: $10.88
Customer Review:
As a teacher of high school and college history for 43 years I can, based upon that experience, recommend this book to every history teacher in America especially those who rely upon a history textbook for factual information. More properly this book should be titled, "Lies My History Textbook Told... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
from McGraw-Hill
Price: $21.75
Customer Review:
Clayton Christensen has gained fame in researching how disruptive technologies are best brought to market in the world of business. He applies the results of this research to hypothesize how education methods uniquely tailored to each student through the use of computer led education are likely to... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
from Three Rivers Press
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
As a companion to THE SHAME OF A NATION, please also consider my new book, TEACHING LIFE: LETTERS FROM A LIFE IN LITERATURE (Iowa, 2008).
In 1978 one of my college students died tragically in an automobile accident on her way to my office to talk over her career plans. It was the suddenness of... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | A Mind at a Time
from Simon & Schuster
Price: $10.95
Customer Review:
I've read the professional reviews and they are interesting, but as a parent they are glossy and shiny but don't ring with the truth I found in this book. The first time I read a Mel Levine book I cried. Because finally someone understood just what my child FELT. I was also enraged because here was... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Teaching With Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom
from Love & Logic Press
Price: $12.21
Customer Review:
As a teacher this is my bible- meant it to be 5 stars...A fabulous resource for classroom management. It teaches teachers how to set boundaries in a loving and logical way. Children learn to take responsibility for their behavior in this kind of environment.Children want to know where their... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need--And What We Can Do About It
from Basic Books
Price: $17.79
Customer Review:
This book engrosses the problems our schools face, from the overpopulating classrooms to the limited flexibility of our educators. This book is a must read for all concerned and especially for the law makers we put in congress. Todays educators are faced with preparing our young people for success... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
from Crown Forum
Price: $16.47
Customer Review:
As a companion to REAL EDUCATION, please also consider my new book, TEACHING LIFE: LETTERS FROM A LIFE IN LITERATURE (Iowa, 2008).
In 1978 one of my college students died tragically in an automobile accident on her way to my office to talk over her career plans. It was the suddenness of her... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Your Child's Strengths: Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them
from Tantor Media
Price: $26.59
Customer Review:
Concerned this book would be another book that would encourage me to ignore my child's weakness, I went to ParentsDigest and downloaded the summary instead. I'm a realist, and don't buy into the idea of pretending my child is perfect in order to feel better about myself. The reality is, my child... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Teaching Tips Eleventh Edition
from Houghton Mifflin Company
Customer Review:
You could stumble into each class paying as much attention as possible, trying very hard to understand how to become a better teacher, reflecting after class upon what you did well and what you did not do well ... or you could read McKeachie's book and take all of his experience and that of his... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Updated Edition
from New Press
Price: $12.21
Customer Review:
Delpit clearly defines and details, in narrative form, the differences in teaching students of color, especially the differences between students who are either middle-class Whites or African-Americans. Delpit considers the ethnic identities and linguistics of ethnic children, the heritage behind... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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