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Triumph over tough equations and get top scores on the SAT Math section!If you're struggling with SAT math, you can rest easy--the revised and updated edition of McGraw-Hill's Conquering SAT Math is h

If math is the hardest part of the SAT for you, we're here to help. McGraw-Hill's Conquering SAT Math has been created and classroom-tested by two acclaimed math educators, who give you strategies for

This brand-new, updated test preparation resource incorporates the most recent test formats and test question changes, and includes full preparation for the computer-delivered tests. The book offers g

Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book publis

In Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, acclaimed cultural critic Neil Postman offers a cure for the hysteria and hazy values of the postmodern world.Postman shows us how to reclaim that balance bet

Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earlier generations. In

Argues that the intrusion of television into every home introduces children too early to adult concepts and activities and subverts their ability to think abstractly, and the very concept of childhood

In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as

In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst -- and the best -- of our habits of disco

A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.

When it comes to test-taking, it’s a whole new world out there for educators. But don’t worry: this fully updated book is all you need to succeed on the Core exams. This comprehensive manual includes

The CSET consists of three computer-based multiple-choice subtests. Subtest I tests in reading, language, literature, history, and social science. Subtest II is in science and mathematics; and Subtest

This completely updated and revised book features all the new tests prospective teachers in New York State must take in order to receive their teacher certification. It includes the Educating All Stud

This comprehensive manual includes the knowledge you need to score well on all three Core Academic Skills for Educators tests, including a thorough review of Core subjects, two full-length tests, test

This brand-new, updated manual incorporates the most recent test format and test question changes, and includes full preparation for the computer-delivered tests. The book shows how to pass all three

(back cover) SCORE HIGHER with BARRON'S For 70 years BARRON'S experts have helped students surpass their expectations on standardized tests. This is the only book you will need to get the score you wa

(back cover) SCORE HIGHER with BARRON'S For 70 years BARRON'S experts have helped students surpass their expectations on standardized tests This is the only book you will need to get the score you wan

(back cover) Two complete practice CSETs with all questions answered and explained In-depth reviews of all test areas: Subtest I: reading, language, literature, history, and social science; Subtest

This updated test preparation manual with an optional CD-ROM readies teacher candidates for the PRAXIS I and PRAXIS II exams. PRAXIS I covers the PPST (Pre-Professional Skills Tests), and PRAXIS II c

This updated test preparation manual with an optional CD-ROM readies teacher candidates for the PRAXIS I and PRAXIS II exams. PRAXIS I covers the PPST (Pre-Professional Skills Tests), and PRAXIS II c

The newest edition of Barron's PRAXIS provides full preparation and practice tests for the computer-delivered Core Academic Skills for Educators (5712, 5722, 5732). The book incorporates recent comput

Presents detailed study advice, test-taking strategies, sample questions and answers, two full-length practice PPSTs, four levels of PLTs, and four elementary assessment exams.

The College-Level Academic Skills Test (CLAST) is given in the state of Florida as a qualification exam for an A.A. degree from a community college or state university and for admission to upper-divi

A scathing and prescient look at television news?now updated for the new tech-savvy generationTelevision news : genuine information or entertainment fodder? Fifteen years ago, Neil Postman, a pioneer in media education and author of the bestselling Amusing Ourselves to Death, and Steve Powers, an award-winning broadcast journalist, concluded that anyone who relies exclusively on their television for accurate world news is making a big mistake. A cash cow laden with money from advertisers, so-called news shows glut viewers with celebrity coverage at the cost of things they really should know. Today, this message is still appallingly true but the problems have multiplied? along with the power of the Internet and the abundance of cable channels. A must-read for anyone concerned with the way media is manipulating our worldview, this newly revised edition addresses the evolving technology and devolving quality of America?s television news programming.

The greatest, the worst, the biggest, the strangest, the funniest, the most impressive moments, feats, milestones, teams, and players in every sport-from baseball to horse-racing-fill the pages of th

??? The first tarot deck for the neotribal technopagan from an avant-garde computer revolutionary ??? The most revolutionary tarot deck to appear since Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot ??? Synthesizes

An athlete’s battle with mental illness.Ever since he was a child, Keith O’Neil wanted to play football. Born on the same day that his father, Ed O’Neil, was cut from the New England Patriots, footbal

Literary Nonfiction. Art. A collection of essays that originated from a symposium of scholars in the United States that speak to Giose Rimanelli's literary contributions since his arrival in the Unite

This book reports recent research on mechanisms of normal formulation and control in speaking and in language disorders such as stuttering, aphasia and verbal dyspraxia. The theoretical claim is that