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Common Core Standards For Parents For Dummies

Jared Myracle · For Dummies; 1 edition

A parents guide to understanding the Common Core educational standards Designed to ensure a similar level of job and college preparedness for students from all backgrounds and regions the Common Core standards have been adopted in states from coast to coast These new common standards are designed...
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Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era

Tony Wagner · Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From two leading experts in education and entrepreneurship, an urgent call for the radical re-imagining of American education so that we better equip students for the realities of the twenty-first century economy. Today more than ever, we prize academic achievement, pressuring our children...
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Start Your Own Construction and Contracting Business (StartUp Series)

Gregg Kuehn · Entrepreneur Press; Second Edition edition
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Focusing on budgeting and estimating—the least understood but most important factors of a contracting business—this guide shows contractors how to price their services to recover expenses and still have money for capital expenses and profits. It goes into detail on accounting...
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What Your First Grader Needs to Know

E.D. Hirsch Jr. · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback

Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated What Your First Grader Needs to Know What will your child be expected to learn in the first grade? How can you help him or her at home? How can teachers foster active, successful learning in the classroom? This book answers these...
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College-Prep Homeschooling: Your Complete Guide to Homeschooling through High School

Chandra Byers , · Mapletree Publishing Co.; 1 edition

Chandra Byers is a homeschooling mother of six, and David Byers has a Ph.D. in education and teaches education at the college level. Their oldest is now attending college on a scholarship, after having been homeschooled all her life. With their combination of experience and expertise, they...
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The Executor's Guide: Settling a Loved One's Estate or Trust

Mary Randolph · NOLO; Sixth Edition edition

The step-by-step guide to serving as an executor. If you need to wrap up the affairs of a loved one who has died, you may feel overwhelmed - especially when you're grieving. But you can do it, and this book will show you how. A roadmap to follow. The Executor's Guide will lead...
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What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know

E.D. Hirsch Jr. · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 403
Format: Paperback

Help your child exceed the Common Core standards with the revised and updated What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know Designed for use by parents and teachers, this groundbreaking first volume in the Core Knowledge Series provides kindergartners with the fundamentals they need to prepare...
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Patent, Copyright & Trademark: An Intellectual Property Desk Reference

Richard Stim · NOLO; Thirteenth Edition edition

Whether you're an inventor, designer, writer or programmer, you need to understand the language of intellectual property law. Otherwise, you can't intelligently deal with intellectual property issues such as: . who owns creative works or valuable information . how owners can protect...
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The Homeschooling Handbook: How to Make Homeschooling Simple, Affordable, Fun, and Effective

Lorilee Lippincott · Skyhorse Publishing

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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Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Alex Prud'homme · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Constantly in the news and the subject of much public debate, fracking, as it is known for short, is one of the most promising yet controversial methods of extracting natural gas and oil. Today, 90 percent of natural gas wells use fracking. Though highly effective, the process-which fractures...
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