The Once and Future School: Three Hundred and Fifty Years of American Secondary Education

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Jurgen Herbst traces the debates, discussions, pronouncements and reports through which Americans have sought to clarify their conceptions of the goals and purposes of education beyond the common school.The Once and Future School argues that to make sense of the current trials of secondary educational system and to maintain any sense of direction and vision for its future, we need a clear understanding of its path in the past and of its setting in a multi-national w… More >>

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Learning from Teaching in Literacy Education: New Perspectives on Professional Development

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Emily Rodgers and Gay Su Pinnell provide insights into the complexity of providing effective professional development for literacy educators and the challenges of bringing about fundamental change to literacy instruction…. More >>

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Instant Immersion Italian

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While it’s true that no better vocabulary-acquisition method exists than tried and true flash cards, they need not be of the paper variety. Instant Immersion Italian is one solution: a set of four CD-ROMs that will take some of the pain out of learning new Italian words simply by being quite a bit more fun than flash cards. In addition, the package includes the “Voyage in Italy” CD-ROM, a buoyant tourist guide to Italian art and food–all in Italian. The software pac… More >>

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