Targeted Learning

We live in a wild world. Has the classroom prepared you?Student. Are you conformed and ranked at school, being force-fed subjects that are irrelevant to your interests?Parent. Has standardized test

Including the historical background and recent advances in the field as well as theoretical perspectives and real-world applications, this book outlines a systematic framework for implementing semi-su

This elementary book introduces students to the art of original composition. It features the following composition tools: melodic shaping, phrasing, octave displacement, accidentals, major chords, min

The goal of computer vision (CV) research is to provide computers with human-like perception capabilities so that they can sense the environment, understand the sensed data, take appropriate actions,

Secrets to supervising for instructional improvement!More than ever, effective supervision is vital to instructional improvement and this new edition of a bestseller pinpoints the process and techniqu

In this book, veteran teacher Deborah Wirth shares her teaching and management tips for keeping the rest of the class is engaged in meaningful work while you meet with small guided math groups. The 35

A fun to read introduction to aviation. Written and illustrated with humor AND education in mind - opening forward by Paul Poberezny, founder of the Experimental Aviation Association.

What do floating pigs, children’s car seats, and a disappointingly polite dragon have in common? Well, not very much, to be honest, unless your name is Gidion and you are the unlucky hero of The Lear

That Monday afternoon, in high-school gyms across America, kids were battling for the only glory American culture seems to want to dispense to the young these days: sports glory.? But at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California, in a gear-cluttered classroom, a different type of “cool” was brewing.? A physics teacher with a dream – the first public high-school teacher ever to win a MacArthur Genius Award -- had rounded up a band of high-I.Q. students who wanted to put their technical know-how to work.? If you asked these brainiacs what the stakes were that first week of their project, they’d have told you it was all about winning a robotics competition – building the ultimate robot and prevailing in a machine-to-machine contest in front of 25,000 screaming fans at Atlanta’s Georgia Dome.?But for their mentor, Amir Abo-Shaeer, much more hung in the balance. ?The fact was, Amir had in mind a different vision for education, one based not on rote learning -- on absorbing facts and fig

Blu, a rare blue Spix's Macaw, is afraid to fly, but when he meets Jewel, the only other bird of his kind, and they are kidnapped by smugglers, he learns to overcome his fear so they can escape.

“If I’d blinked, I would have missed it. But I didn’t, and I saw something fall from the rear deck of the opposite ferry: a small, wide-eyed human face, in one tiny frozen moment, as it plummeted towa

Build children's alphabet-recognition skills and phonemic awareness with this engaging kit that includes 52 colored upper- and lowercase letters, 26 picture cards, 13 two-sided, write-on/wipe-off lear

The Brown Center Report on American Education provides an accurate, nonpartisan, data-driven account of American elementary and secondary education. Its purpose is four-fold: to determine the directio