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The Self-Directed Learning Handbook: Challenging Adolescent Students to Excel

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The Self-Directed Learning Handbook offers teachers and principals an innovative program for customizing schooling to the learning needs of individual students— and for motivating them to take increasing responsibility for deciding what and how they should learn. Whether the students are struggling or proficient, the program is designed to nurture their natural passion for learning and mastery, challenging them to go beyond the easy and familiar so they can truly … More >>

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Marion’s Triumph: Surviving History’s Nightmare

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During the nightmare known as the Holocaust, the Nazis murdered six million Jews including one and half million children. Five million non-Jews were also murdered, among them gypsies, homosexuals, Johovah’s Witnesses, Christian activists and anyone else deemed politically or racially undesirable. This story is about one survivor. In 1938 the Blumenthals began their journey to the U.S. as refugees from Nazi Germany. Just before their scheduled departure from Rotterdam, the Ge… More >>

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Working in the Twenty-First Century: Policies for Economic Growth Through Training, Opportunity, and Education

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Analyzes the current labour market in the US and concludes that social policy must change to cope with the realities of the new economy. “More and better jobs” is the underlying theme of this text. It presents an agenda of lifelong learning and recommends specific government educational policies…. More >>

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