education

Includes activities to teach values, attitudes, and behaviors for learning and living.

Provides a detailed description for more than one hundred educational professions, including information on salaries, skills required, employment prospects, advancement opportunities, and associations. Careers.

Explains how teachers can help students achieve state and national standards using the Big6 skills method, with information on the development of standards and their common elements, and includes activities, lesson plans, and unit plans for specific content areas.

A collection of jokes, riddles, one-liners, and other forms of humor related to classes, homework, field trips, and other aspects of school.

A collection of jokes and riddles about teachers, classrooms, and other aspects of schools and education, including "When should teachers wear sunglasses? When they have bright students.".

Photographs and brief text describe the experiences of school children from thirty-seven countries.

Presents a collection of essays examining charter schools, including their strengths and weaknesses, pros and cons, and what can be done to improve them.

Provides effective ways to make a difference in schools from renting out school space to turning students into teachers' aides.

Examines the problems of gifted and talented students, ages 11-18, and explains how they can make the best use of their educational opportunities.