Navigating the high school years and getting a student ready for the next step in their education can be challenging for everyone involved. Ahead of the Curve will be your college adviser in a book, keeping you and your child on the successful path to college. It includes separate chapters for grades 9 through 12 for easy reference. Each section contains helpful checklists of tasks to accomplish each year including, questions to ask, tests to take, resources to take advantage of, and much more. Also includes a valuable section on financial aid and useful resources for study aids, tutoring assistance, test prep, choosing a major, and staying organized. This book will take the Google-work out of college preparation and give parents and students a comprehensive, but fun, guide to navigating the high school to college years.
Peterson's; 1 edition
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9780768938715
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Common Core
By Fare, Dennis
PARCC ELA/Literacy Assessment Grade 4 Test GuideTake Control of the Common Core with REA's New Prep!The educational landscape is changing and REA is at the forefront of the PARCC assessments that millions of students face. This targeted test guide is designed for teachers and students in PARCC states, and is fully aligned with the Common Core standards. (PARCC is the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, one of two major state-led consortia formed to develop Common Core-aligned tests.) Covers All the Must-Know PARCC ELA Topics: Our PARCC Assessment: English Language Arts/Literacy Test Guide covers all the must-know PARCC ELA Grade 4 material. Each chapter includes step-by-step standards-aligned instruction and practice for every skill tested on the exam.
Research & Education Association
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9780738612041
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The Game Believes in You
By Toppo, Greg
What if schools, from the wealthiest suburban nursery school to the grittiest urban high school, thrummed with the sounds of deep immersion? More and more people believe that can happen - with the aid of video games. Greg Toppo's The Game Believes in You presents the story of a small group of visionaries who, for the past 40 years, have been pushing to get game controllers into the hands of learners. Among the game revolutionaries you'll meet in this book: *A game designer at the University of Southern California leading a team to design a video-game version of Thoreau's Walden Pond. *A young neuroscientist and game designer whose research on "Math Without Words" is revolutionizing how the subject is taught, especially to students with limited English abilities.
St. Martin's Press
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9781137279576
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Hardcover
SUMMER MELT
By Page, Castleman &
"Under increasing pressure to raise graduation rates and ensure that students leave high school college- and career-ready, many school and district leaders may believe that, when students graduate with college acceptances in hand, their work is done. But as Benjamin L. Castleman and Lindsay C. Page show, summer can be a time of significant attrition among college-intending seniors--especially those from low-income families. Anywhere from 10 to 40 percent of students presumed to be headed to college fail to matriculate at any postsecondary institution in the fall following high school. Summer Melt explores the complex factors that contribute to this trend--the absence of school support, confusion over paperwork, lack of parental guidance, and the teenage tendency to procrastinate. The authors draw on findings from fields such as neuroscience, behavioral economics, and social psychology to contextualize these factors. Drawing on a series of research studies, they show how schools and districts can develop effective, low-cost, scalable responses--including counselor outreach, peer mentoring, and using text messages and social media--to help students stay on track over the summer. Summer Melt offers very practical guidance for schools and districts committed to helping their students make the transition to college." -- Publisher's website.
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Harvard Education Press
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9781612507422
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Print book : English
Hydrofracking
By Prud'homme, Alex
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 rock with pressurized fluid-has been criticized for polluting land, air, and water, and endangering human health. A timely addition to Oxford's What Everyone Needs to Know series, Hydrofracking tackles this contentious topic, exploring both sides of the debate and providing a clear guide to the science underlying the technique. In concise question-and-answer format, Alex Prud'homme cuts through the maze of opinions and rhetoric to uncover key points, from the economic and political benefits of fracking to the health dangers and negative effects on the environment.
Oxford University Press
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9780199311255
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Paperback
Organic
By Laufer, Peter
Part food narrative, part investigation, part adventure story, Organic is an eye-opening and entertaining look into the anything goes world behind the organic label. It is also a wakeup call about the dubious origins of food labeled organic. After eating some suspect organic walnuts that supposedly were produced in Kazakhstan, veteran journalist Peter Laufer chooses a few items from his home pantry and traces their origins back to their source. Along the way he learns how easily we are tricked into taking "organic" claims at face value.With organic foods readily available at supermarket chains, confusion and outright deception about labels have become commonplace. Globalization has allowed food from highly corrupt governments and businesses overseas to pollute the organic market with food that is anything but.
Lyons Pr
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9780762790715
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More Than a Score
By Ravitch, Diane
For too long so-called education reformers, mostly billionaires, politicians, and others with little or no background in teaching, have gotten away with using standardized testing to punish our nations youth and educators. Now, across the country, students are walking out, parents are opting their children out, and teachers are refusing to administer these detrimental exams. In fact, the reformers today find themselves facing the largest revolt in US history against high-stakes, standardized testing. More Than a Score is a collection of essays, poems, speeches, and interviewsaccounts of personal courage and trenchant insightsfrom frontline fighters who are defying the corporate education reformers, often at great personal and professional risk, and fueling a national movement to reclaim and transform public education.
Haymarket Books
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9781608463923
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Book
NEW JERSEY TEST PREP PARCC Practice Book English Language Arts Grade 3
By Jersey, Test Master Press New
In 2014-2015, the NJ ASK tests will be replaced by the PARCC assessments. This book has been developed specifically to prepare students for the new PARCC assessments. It covers both the Performance-Based Assessment (PBA) and the End-of-Year Assessment (EOY). It includes practice for all the tasks students will encounter on the real PARCC tests. Complete Preparation for the PBA and the EOY - Separate sections cover the PBA and the EOY assessments - Each section mimics the content of the real assessments - Flexible format allows question sets to be completed to suit any schedule - Can be used as two complete PBA and EOY practice tests Matches the PARCC English Language Arts/Literary Assessments - Covers the same skills assessed on the PARCC assessments - Includes the same question types found on the PARCC assessments - Provides practice completing selected-response, technology-enhanced, and constructed-response questions - Includes essay questions and narrative writing tasks Focuses on the Key Features of the Common Core Standards and PARCC Tests - Stronger emphasis on writing skills - Encourages close reading - Focuses on using evidence from texts - Greater emphasis on analyzing and evaluating texts - Increased rigor compared to previous tests .
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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9781499291711
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Print book
NEW JERSEY TEST PREP PARCC Practice Book English Language Arts Grade 5
By Jersey, Test Master Press New
In 2014-2015, the NJ ASK tests will be replaced by the PARCC assessments. This book has been developed specifically to prepare students for the new PARCC assessments. It covers both the Performance-Based Assessment (PBA) and the End-of-Year Assessment (EOY). It includes practice for all the tasks students will encounter on the real PARCC tests. Complete Preparation for the PBA and the EOY - Separate sections cover the PBA and the EOY assessments - Each section mimics the content of the real assessments - Flexible format allows question sets to be completed to suit any schedule - Can be used as two complete PBA and EOY practice tests Matches the PARCC English Language Arts/Literacy Assessments - Covers the same skills assessed on the PARCC assessments - Includes the same question types found on the PARCC assessments - Provides practice completing selected-response, technology-enhanced, and constructed-response questions - Includes essay questions and narrative writing tasks Focuses on the Key Features of the Common Core Standards and PARCC Tests - Stronger emphasis on writing skills - Encourages close reading - Focuses on using evidence from texts - Greater emphasis on analyzing and evaluating texts - Increased rigor compared to previous tests .
Ahead of the Curve
By Saunders, Amber C
Navigating the high school years and getting a student ready for the next step in their education can be challenging for everyone involved. Ahead of the Curve will be your college adviser in a book, keeping you and your child on the successful path to college. It includes separate chapters for grades 9 through 12 for easy reference. Each section contains helpful checklists of tasks to accomplish each year including, questions to ask, tests to take, resources to take advantage of, and much more. Also includes a valuable section on financial aid and useful resources for study aids, tutoring assistance, test prep, choosing a major, and staying organized. This book will take the Google-work out of college preparation and give parents and students a comprehensive, but fun, guide to navigating the high school to college years.
Common Core
By Fare, Dennis
PARCC ELA/Literacy Assessment Grade 4 Test GuideTake Control of the Common Core with REA's New Prep!The educational landscape is changing and REA is at the forefront of the PARCC assessments that millions of students face. This targeted test guide is designed for teachers and students in PARCC states, and is fully aligned with the Common Core standards. (PARCC is the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, one of two major state-led consortia formed to develop Common Core-aligned tests.) Covers All the Must-Know PARCC ELA Topics: Our PARCC Assessment: English Language Arts/Literacy Test Guide covers all the must-know PARCC ELA Grade 4 material. Each chapter includes step-by-step standards-aligned instruction and practice for every skill tested on the exam.
The Game Believes in You
By Toppo, Greg
What if schools, from the wealthiest suburban nursery school to the grittiest urban high school, thrummed with the sounds of deep immersion? More and more people believe that can happen - with the aid of video games. Greg Toppo's The Game Believes in You presents the story of a small group of visionaries who, for the past 40 years, have been pushing to get game controllers into the hands of learners. Among the game revolutionaries you'll meet in this book: *A game designer at the University of Southern California leading a team to design a video-game version of Thoreau's Walden Pond. *A young neuroscientist and game designer whose research on "Math Without Words" is revolutionizing how the subject is taught, especially to students with limited English abilities.
SUMMER MELT
By Page, Castleman &
"Under increasing pressure to raise graduation rates and ensure that students leave high school college- and career-ready, many school and district leaders may believe that, when students graduate with college acceptances in hand, their work is done. But as Benjamin L. Castleman and Lindsay C. Page show, summer can be a time of significant attrition among college-intending seniors--especially those from low-income families. Anywhere from 10 to 40 percent of students presumed to be headed to college fail to matriculate at any postsecondary institution in the fall following high school. Summer Melt explores the complex factors that contribute to this trend--the absence of school support, confusion over paperwork, lack of parental guidance, and the teenage tendency to procrastinate. The authors draw on findings from fields such as neuroscience, behavioral economics, and social psychology to contextualize these factors. Drawing on a series of research studies, they show how schools and districts can develop effective, low-cost, scalable responses--including counselor outreach, peer mentoring, and using text messages and social media--to help students stay on track over the summer. Summer Melt offers very practical guidance for schools and districts committed to helping their students make the transition to college." -- Publisher's website. Read more...
Hydrofracking
By Prud'homme, Alex
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 rock with pressurized fluid-has been criticized for polluting land, air, and water, and endangering human health. A timely addition to Oxford's What Everyone Needs to Know series, Hydrofracking tackles this contentious topic, exploring both sides of the debate and providing a clear guide to the science underlying the technique. In concise question-and-answer format, Alex Prud'homme cuts through the maze of opinions and rhetoric to uncover key points, from the economic and political benefits of fracking to the health dangers and negative effects on the environment.
Organic
By Laufer, Peter
Part food narrative, part investigation, part adventure story, Organic is an eye-opening and entertaining look into the anything goes world behind the organic label. It is also a wakeup call about the dubious origins of food labeled organic. After eating some suspect organic walnuts that supposedly were produced in Kazakhstan, veteran journalist Peter Laufer chooses a few items from his home pantry and traces their origins back to their source. Along the way he learns how easily we are tricked into taking "organic" claims at face value.With organic foods readily available at supermarket chains, confusion and outright deception about labels have become commonplace. Globalization has allowed food from highly corrupt governments and businesses overseas to pollute the organic market with food that is anything but.
More Than a Score
By Ravitch, Diane
For too long so-called education reformers, mostly billionaires, politicians, and others with little or no background in teaching, have gotten away with using standardized testing to punish our nations youth and educators. Now, across the country, students are walking out, parents are opting their children out, and teachers are refusing to administer these detrimental exams. In fact, the reformers today find themselves facing the largest revolt in US history against high-stakes, standardized testing. More Than a Score is a collection of essays, poems, speeches, and interviewsaccounts of personal courage and trenchant insightsfrom frontline fighters who are defying the corporate education reformers, often at great personal and professional risk, and fueling a national movement to reclaim and transform public education.
NEW JERSEY TEST PREP PARCC Practice Book English Language Arts Grade 3
By Jersey, Test Master Press New
In 2014-2015, the NJ ASK tests will be replaced by the PARCC assessments. This book has been developed specifically to prepare students for the new PARCC assessments. It covers both the Performance-Based Assessment (PBA) and the End-of-Year Assessment (EOY). It includes practice for all the tasks students will encounter on the real PARCC tests. Complete Preparation for the PBA and the EOY - Separate sections cover the PBA and the EOY assessments - Each section mimics the content of the real assessments - Flexible format allows question sets to be completed to suit any schedule - Can be used as two complete PBA and EOY practice tests Matches the PARCC English Language Arts/Literary Assessments - Covers the same skills assessed on the PARCC assessments - Includes the same question types found on the PARCC assessments - Provides practice completing selected-response, technology-enhanced, and constructed-response questions - Includes essay questions and narrative writing tasks Focuses on the Key Features of the Common Core Standards and PARCC Tests - Stronger emphasis on writing skills - Encourages close reading - Focuses on using evidence from texts - Greater emphasis on analyzing and evaluating texts - Increased rigor compared to previous tests .
NEW JERSEY TEST PREP PARCC Practice Book English Language Arts Grade 5
By Jersey, Test Master Press New
In 2014-2015, the NJ ASK tests will be replaced by the PARCC assessments. This book has been developed specifically to prepare students for the new PARCC assessments. It covers both the Performance-Based Assessment (PBA) and the End-of-Year Assessment (EOY). It includes practice for all the tasks students will encounter on the real PARCC tests. Complete Preparation for the PBA and the EOY - Separate sections cover the PBA and the EOY assessments - Each section mimics the content of the real assessments - Flexible format allows question sets to be completed to suit any schedule - Can be used as two complete PBA and EOY practice tests Matches the PARCC English Language Arts/Literacy Assessments - Covers the same skills assessed on the PARCC assessments - Includes the same question types found on the PARCC assessments - Provides practice completing selected-response, technology-enhanced, and constructed-response questions - Includes essay questions and narrative writing tasks Focuses on the Key Features of the Common Core Standards and PARCC Tests - Stronger emphasis on writing skills - Encourages close reading - Focuses on using evidence from texts - Greater emphasis on analyzing and evaluating texts - Increased rigor compared to previous tests .