Maria Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. Her educational method is in use today in public and private schools throughout the world. In 1947 she returned to India and gave courses in Adyar and Ahmedabad. These courses led to the book The Absorbent Mind, in which Montessori described the development of the child from birth onwards and...

Addresses the failures and consequences of America's early education system, advocating for a shared knowledge curriculum that provides an educational foundation for all students to strengthen American unity, identity, and democracy. Hirsch addresses the failures of America's early education system and its impact on our current national malaise. He advocates for a shared knowledge curriculum students everywhere can be taught-- an educational foundation...

Practicing Multiplication Has Never Been This Much Fun!™ Meet the Math Facts made learning math facts fun and easy. Now it is time to practice what you have learned. Meet the Math Drills Multiplication provides hours of practice so that you will be able to recall multiplication equations from to 12x12 with rapid SPEED! Primary School Prep is a division of Preschool Prep Company, home to a complete set of learning tools that have won over 100...

Practicing Division Has Never Been This Much Fun!™ Meet the Math Facts made learning math facts fun and easy. Now it is time to practice what you have learned. Meet the Math Drills Division provides hours of practice so that you will be able to recall division from 0 to 12 with rapid SPEED! Primary School Prep is a division of Preschool Prep Company, home to a complete set of learning tools that have won over 100 awards! These educational products...

An explosive new look at the pressures on today's teachers and the pitfalls of school reform, Confessions of a Bad Teacher presents a passionate appeal to save public schools, before it's too late. When John Owens left a lucrative job to teach English at a public school in New York City's South Bronx, he thought he could do some good. Faced with a flood of struggling students, Owens devised ingenious ways to engage every last one. But as his students...

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"Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker were ready to reform our failing schools. They got an education. When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools -- and to solve the education crisis in every city in America -- it looked like a huge win for then-mayor Cory Booker and governor Chris Christie. But their plans soon ran into a constituency not so easily moved...

"Revised and updated with more than 50 new games and the latest brain research, this book is filled with activities to promote brain development for children from 12 to 36 months"--

This program covers the important topic of Integration by Partial Fractions in Calculus. We begin by discussing what a Partial Fraction is, how it can be used to solve integrals, and why it is a central topic in Calculus. Next, we solve several practical calculus problems that give students practice with Integration by Partial Fractions. The entire lesson is taught by working example problems beginning with the easier ones and gradually progressing...

A year in the lives of two inspirational teachers in the only primary-age boarding school in Ireland. Headfort School is a revered institution that sees students attend from all over the world. Married teaching duo John and Amanda Leyden have sat at the front of Headfort's classrooms for 46 years. For John, rock music is just another subject alongside Math, English, Scripture, and Latin. For Amanda, the key to connecting with children is through books,...