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The benefits of collaborative learning are well documented-and yet, almost every teacher knows how group work can go wrong: restless students, unequal workloads, lack of accountability, and too little learning...

At a time when globalization and technology are dramatically altering the world we live in, is education reform in the United States headed down the right path? Are schools emphasizing...

At last, a book that forever solves the debate over whether homework is an essential component of rigorous schooling or a harmful practice. Veteran teacher, trainer, professor, consultant, and author...

It's one of the great mysteries of teaching: Why do some students ""get it"" and some students don't? In this book, Betty K. Garner focuses on why students struggle and...

The more teachers understand about how children learn to talk, the more they can help children become avid, joyful readers and writers. Drawing on a large body of research and...

This book for elementary and middle school teachers and literacy methods courses articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy instruction. Critical literacy practices encourage students to use language to question...

In this sequel to his classic Mindstorms Papert, the inventor of the programming language LOGO, explains how computers have the potential to revolutionize education.. In his classsic book, Mindstorms: Children,...

As the presence of computers in the primary classroom increases and IT becomes a bigger part of learning, the book takes a realistic look at the role of the computer...

The bestselling first edition of Children's Mathematics helped hundreds of thousands of teachers understand children's intuitive mathematical thinking and use that knowledge to help children learn mathematics with understanding. The...

"Sociomedia" continues the assessment of hypertext and hypermedia systems begun in "Text, Context, and HyperText" and "The Society of Text". It examines the use of integrated multimedia to support social...

If your child isn't doing so well at maths, there's not much you can do - they just have no talent for it, right? Wrong! Most of us have been...

Tips and ideas to help you survive your uni years, from freshers week to final exams You've been waiting for the time you head off to university since you started...

Are computers effective learning tools for young children? Can computers help our children to learn to read and write, and think? This is the first book ever to address these...

First book to link children's technology use to important new findings about stages of child development and brain maturation. Through concrete examples and guidelines, Jane Healy clearly illustrates how computers...

Born in Africa, at the age of twelve Fiori Giovanni's marriage was already arranged. By fourteen, she was recruited into the Eritrean army. Her destiny, like that of so many...

Mindstorms has two central themes: that children can learn to use computers in a masterful way and that learning to use computers can change the way they learn everything else....

This book explores the complex nexus of discourses, principles and practices within which educators mobilise school-based health education. Through an interrogation of the ideas informing particular models and approaches to...

Media star Jamila Rizvi's exploration of the confidence deficit holding women back, the barriers to career success this can create, and how they might be overcome. Accessible and timely, this...

A survey conducted in 1993 discovered that 22% of adults were functionally illiterate and that 43% of 9 year olds fell below 'basic level' skills in reading and writing. Over...

Master essential grammar, boost your vocabulary, and improve your TOEFL score! Fully updated to match the new test from July 2023, Collins Vocabulary and Grammar for the TOEFL iBT (R)...

This is an important and timely collection in which recent research and interpretations are reported and debated. The papers provide a scholarly analysis of a range of significant issues, complexities...

The Little Black School Book, Volume 2 (Exams) can be appreciated as a sequel to Volume 1 (Essays) or enjoyed on its own. It provides you with powerfully effective exam...

The Agastya International Foundation is an Indian education trust and non-profit organisation based in Bangalore, India, whose mission is to spark curiosity, nurture creativity and build confidence among economically disadvantaged...

This richly illustrated hardback celebration of Worcester will include much fascinating new research into the history of the College, but it will offer far more than a tour through the...

Find out what the pioneers have been doing, and how it is transforming their schools. Eight years on from the classic Building Learning Power, Professor Claxton and his co-authors show...

Image really does matter with more and more images being used in our contemporary culture from picture story book to the movie screen, print advertisements to internet shopping and so...

Designed to show professionals how to use information technology (IT) to promote better learning by presenting the essential balance between research and practice, this text includes a number of case...

Based on the premise that education has to be about much more than intellectual development, this book calls for the transformation of the education system.

All you need to get the answer right first time. -Have you been asked to sit a numerical or logical reasoning test? -Do you need some help preparing for the...

What role should Australian literature play in the school curriculum? What principles should guide our selection of Australian texts? To what extent should concepts of the nation and a national...

Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award The astonishing story of aunique missionary project and the America it embodied from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth...

In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix,...

At a time when knowledge is being 're-valued' as central to curriculum concerns, subject English is being called to account. Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers puts long-standing...

From the author of Sunday Times bestsellers One Child and Ghost Girl comes a heartbreaking story of one teacher's determination to turn a chaotic group of damaged children into a...

'Persuasive and timely reading' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'They share the challenges and rewards they've faced along the way with humour and honesty' OK! WHAT A YEAR IT'S BEEN! HAS HOMESCHOOLING DRIVEN...

Do computers really help our children to read, write or think, or do they stifle their development, divert crucial resources, and substitute technology for teaching and learning? This book paints...

In the early 1980s there was virtually no serious communication among the various groups that contribute to mathematics education -- mathematicians, mathematics educators, classroom teachers, and cognitive scientists. Members of...

Questions about children's friendships and social development consume parents. Is my child popular? What if she isn't? What if she is being excluded from that group? What if he is...

As computers become more widely used in schools, it is clear that they have the potential to redefine the scope of the language curriculum. But for this potential to be...

In the current restrictive educational atmosphere of high-stakes testing and narrowed, scripted curriculum, teachers' voices are often muted by bureaucratic mandates. The narratives in this collection, first-person accounts by teachers...

'Glorious!' CLARE POOLEY 'Compelling' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Beautiful, uplifting and deeply moving' FREYA SAMPSON From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Saving Missy A mother. A daughter. A secret waiting to...