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This book was conceived of in a simpler era-B.S.E. (Before September Eleventh). Then, in 1993 B.S.E., the worst problems our nation faced were a spate of
violent crimes. I did not know then, as I do now, that the violent crime rate in
the United…

This is a book about using phonics to teach reading and spelling to children and adults. It is not an evangelical tract, and does not pretend that phonics are all that we need. English spelling is not an exact match for English speech, and therefore…

What a great time to be a school librarian! We have at our fingertips efficient research methods and resources along with communication toys that quickly become educational tools.
My day is never the same as the one before, and I prefer it that way.…

This series is aimed at research students in education and those under-
taking related professional, vocational and social research. It takes
current methodological debates seriously and offers well-informed advice
to students on how to respond to…

For me, this book began more than 10 years ago as a post-J.D.
student in a semester-long capstone course at George Washington
University’s National Law Center. Professor James M. Brown,
who had mastered simulation teaching, taught this…

There is no doubt that things are changing in the modern classroom as teachers find more
ways to leverage technology for learning.As the Internet grows at exponential rates, its
associated technologies provide a toolbox of educational and…

These seven volumes of Lecture Notes represent the most-likely-to-be-tested material on the current USMLE Step 1 exam. Please not that these are Lecture Notes, not review books. The Notes were designed to be accompanied by faculty lectures-live, on…

This unique and ground-breaking book is the result of 15 years’ research and synthesises over 800 meta-analyses relating to the influences on achievement in school-aged students. It builds a story about the power of teachers and of feedback, and…

The classroom accounts and activities show how using visual approaches – and audio-visual and drama – can build on children’s knowledge of a range of multimodal texts. There are examples of teaching sequences using film, drama, real-life…

Many of our oldest and wisest sayings deal with the eyes. That’s probably
because vision is our primary connection with the world. We use our eyes
to interact with our environment in more than a million ways every second.
The eyes really are an…