Over 80 years ago, Maria Montessori recognized the importance of a child's earliest experiences in paving the way for educational and personal fulfillment. This book brings the Montessori method into the home and includes simple projects that fit into the normal daily routine of young children.

An astounding novel about a girls coming-of-age inter-woven with a real life murder that rocked turn-of-the-century America. Winner of the 2004 Carnegie Medal.

As an editor at Esquire , AJ Jacobs had built up knowledge of celebrity trivia - and the cure was going to take a long time. While others read a broadsheet at the weekend, or become casual newsnight enthusiasts, Jacobs elected to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica . Part assemblage of trivia, part journey through adulthood, this is fun to read.

Francie Nolan is a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. Her family are brave, devoted immigrants, struggling to survive and rise above the squalor, poverty and violence that surround their tenement home.

Offers a rebuttal of conservative activists' incendiary claims about American universities and makes a case for liberalism itself. This book provides an account of the joys and frustrations of running a college classroom. It is suitable for those who are concerned about the political climate on and off campus.

Suitable for educators, this book deals with the theoretical foundations and frameworks for social justice teaching practice. It provides an introduction to both the theory and practice that teachers need to introduce issues of oppression into classrooms. It also includes chapters on various forms of oppression such as racism, ageism and others.

This title shows parents how to work within the school system rather than telling them the only option available to them is to homeschool. It empowers them with both inspirational and practical tools to take back primary responsibility for raising thinking, creative people.

The leading experts on parent-child communication show parents and teachers how to motivate children to learn and succeed in school. This breakthrough book demonstrates how parents and teachers can join forces to inspire them to be self-directed, self-disciplined and responsive to the wonders of learning.

Excellent book with practical guidelines to help parents deal with children who don't listen.

In the persons of Gradgrind and Bounderby, Dickens stigmatized the prevalent philosophy of utilitarianism which, whether in school or factory, allowed human beings to be caged in a dreary scenery of brick terraces and foul chimneys, to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers.

A stunning and poignant account of an extraordinary teacher's determination never to abandon a child in need from the internationally bestselling author of 'One Child' and No. 1 bestseller 'Ghost Girl'.

quot;This really is a remarkable book. It does for human resources what Rachel Carson #146;s Silent Spring did for the environment. It makes you wonder why we insist on sustaining an education system that is narrow, partial, entirely inappropriate for the 21st century and deeply destructiv

In 1998 John Wood was a rising executive at Microsoft . Then a trip to Nepal inspired him to set up schools and libraries in the developing world.

Introducing teachers who are exemplars of good teaching, this book shows that culturally relevant teaching is not a matter of race, gender, or teaching style. It challenges us to envision intellectually rigorous and culturally relevant classrooms that have the power to improve the lives of not just African American students, but all children.

Jadie never spoke, never laughed, never cried. She spent every waking hour locked in her own private world of shadows. But nothing in Torey Hayden's experience had prepared her for the nightmare Jadie revealed to her when finally persuaded to break her self-imposed silence. This is an account of an extraordinary teacher's determination.

Deals with the role and influence of children's literature in the context of both education/parenting.

'Education for Critical Consciousness' is the main statement of Freire's revolutionary method of education. It takes the life situation of the learner as its starting point and the raising of consciousness and the overcoming of obstacles as its goals.