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Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Educational Issues, Expanded

Glenn L Koonce · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

The Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill Createâ„¢ includes current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. This Collection contains a multitude of current and classic issues to enhance and customize your...
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Leading, Teaching, and Learning the Common Core Standards: Rigorous Expectations for All Students

Rosemarye Taylor · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 130
Format: Hardcover

Leading, Teaching, and Learning is a resource for teachers taking action on Common Core State Standards to enhance student learning. Each chapter addresses various disciplines and grade levels with concrete examples. Chapters focus on research-based instruction, academic language development,...
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Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: Keep Your Property & Repay Debts Over Time

Stephen Elias · NOLO
Pages: 401
Format: Paperback

This plain-English guide to decide if Chapter 13 is right for you and to learn how to keep valuable property and discharge your unsecured debts. Chapter 13 legal concepts, procedures, and monetary calculations can be tricky. Nolo's Chapter 13 Bankruptcy breaks down the Chapter 13 process...
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Privacy in the New Media Age

Jon L. Mills · University Press of Florida
Format: Hardcover

"An essential book for anyone concerned with the increasingly ubiquitous clashes between a technologically borderless world, free press, safety and personal privacy." - Charlotte Laws, board member, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative "Elucidates a path that both enhances dignity...
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The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases

Deborah Halber · Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Mary Roach meets C.S.I. in this “lively study that’s part whodunit, part sociological study…The result is eminently entertaining and will be devoured by armchair detectives” (Publishers Weekly).Currently, upwards of forty thousand people in America are dead and unaccounted...
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"So What Are You Going to Do with That?": Finding Careers Outside Academia, Third Edition

Maggie Debelius · University Of Chicago Press; Third Edition edition
Format: Book

Graduate schools churn out tens of thousands of PhDs and MAs every year. Yet more than half of all college courses are taught by adjunct faculty, which means that the chances of an academic landing a tenure-track job seem only to shrink as student loan and credit card debts grow. What’s...
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The Homeschooling Handbook: How to Make Homeschooling Simple, Affordable, Fun, and Effective

Lorilee Lippincott · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

The mere thought of homeschooling can be overwhelming. What curriculum do I choose? What if we cant afford all the books? How do I schedule our time? Will my children become socially awkward recluses? What if I screw up my kids education?! Lorilee Lippincott, a seasoned homeschooling mom,...
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Common Core Curriculum: English, Grades 9-12

Great Minds · Jossey-Bass
Pages: 311
Format: Paperback

Common Core's English resources empower educators to meet the expectations of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts (ELA) and build essential content knowledge for students in grades 9-12. Each grade in The Wheatley Portfolio features a comprehensive,...
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Write It Off! Deduct It!: The A-to-Z Guide to Tax Deductions for Home-Based Businesses

Bernard B. Kamoroff C.P.A. · Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Print book

Are you paying more taxes than you have to? There are more than nineteen million home-based businesses in the United States—56 percent of all businesses—and they generate 102 billion in annual revenue. As far as the IRS is concerned, a home business is no different than any other business....
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