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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Publisher Comments In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson and Mike Bryan Staff Pick If you're feeling crushed by the grim news reports of our ongoing, never-ending overseas warfare, replenish your spirit with Stones into Schools. This remarkable book from the author of Three Cups of Tea will pull you out of your seat and send you into... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W Loewen Publisher Comments Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6): Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy by Irene Fountas Publisher Comments Authors Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have already helped hundreds of thousands of K-3 teachers engage, inform, and inspire early readers and writers. Now, with Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6), Fountas and Pinnell support teachers on the next... (read more) List Price $56.75 Your price: $32.00 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Grade for Learning: Linking Grades to Standards by Ken Oconnor Publisher Comments "In How to Grade for Learning, Ken O'Connor combines the thoroughness of a scholar with the pragmatism of a veteran educator as he explains the relationship among content standards, performance standards, assignments, assessments, and grades."</p> &... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher by William Ayers Publisher Comments The story of one teacher's odyssey into the ethical and intellectual heart of teaching, and at the same time an invitation to teachers to more thoughtfully and carefully map their own pathways. In conceptual and practical ways, To Teach narrates an... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12 by Cris Tovani Publisher Comments Do I really have to teach reading? This is the question many teachers of adolescents are asking, wondering how they can possibly add a new element to an already overloaded curriculum. And most are finding that the answer is yes. If they want their... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Inviting the Wolf in (01 Edition) by Loren Niemi Publisher Comments A difficult story is any story whose content makes it challenging to tell or difficult to hear. Told for the wrong reasons, it can be as painful for the listener as for the teller. But as we know from literature and media from Sophie's Choice to The... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction by Ellin Oliver Keene Publisher Comments available to all adopters of 25 copies or more of Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition.Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann have returned with a new edition of Mosaic of Thought that features 70 percent new material. When the first edition published ten... (read more) List Price $45.25 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities (Gender and American Culture) by Nicholas L Syrett Publisher Comments Here is the first book to recount the full history of white college fraternities in America. Nicholas Syrett traces these organizations from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, paying special attention to... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Measure of Our Success: Letter to My Children and Yours by Marian Wrig Edelman Publisher Comments The #1 New York Times bestseller is a thinking person's Life's Little Instruction Book, with simple yet inspirational messages about living.... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Miscue Analysis Made Easy: Building on Student Strengths by Sandra Wilde Publisher Comments Miscue analysis has long been the instrument of choice for knowledgeable researchers working to understand the quality of student errors in reading. Now Sandra has put this remarkable tool into the hands of all classroom teachers. This little jewel of a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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12 Fabulously Funny Fairy Tales Plays: Humorous Takes on Favorite Tales That Boost Reading Skills, Build Fluency & Keep Your Class Chuckling with Lots by Justin Mccor Martin Publisher Comments Students will have oodles of fun building essential reading skills with rib-tickling versions of beloved fairy tales turned into read-aloud plays! Even your most reluctant readers won't be able to resist these hilarious twists on their favorite tales... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, & Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn Publisher Comments The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in much the same way that we... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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What Are the Other Kids Doing While You Teach Small Groups?: The Answer to Every Teacher's Question by Creative Publisher Comments What are the other students doing while you teach small groups? Here's the answer! This complete, classroom-tested program offers management strategies, assessment tools, reproducibles, and 30 independent literacy center activities that students can... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children Really Learn--And Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less by Kathy Hirsh Pasek Publisher Comments Two highly-credentialed child psychologists offer a compelling indictment of the growing trend toward accelerated learning and tout the message that letting tots learn through play is not only okay--it's better than drilling academics.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost in the Meritocracy (09 Edition) by Walter Kirn Publisher Comments "Percentile is destiny in America." So says Walter Kirn, one of our best observers and interpreters of American life, in this whip-smart memoir of his own long strange trip through American education. Working his way up the ladder of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop by Ellin Keene Publisher Comments You will be reluctant to set this book aside until you have visualized, inferred, synthesized, and questioned the immediate application to your classroom. - Kansas Journal of ReadingHow do students become thoughtful, independent readers who comprehend... (read more) List Price $32.75 Your price: $10.48 Used - Trade Paper
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One Child by Torey L Hayden Publisher Comments Six year old Sheila had been abandoned by her mother on a highway when she was four. A survivor of horrific abuse, she never spoke, never cried, and was placed in a class for severely retarded children after committing an atrocious act of violence... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week: Helping Disorganized and Distracted Boys Succeed in School and Life by Ana Homayoun Publisher Comments At last, the solution for getting disorganized boys back on track. Missed assignments. Lack of focus and enthusiasm. Falling grades. For too many boys and their frustrated parents, these are the facts of life. But they don't have to be. Top academic... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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