education

The authors present their theory of brain-based learning and teaching as a means for school reform, and describe their experiences implementing their ideas in two schools.

A discussion of school improvement, examining the conditions that favor results, reviewing the theory behind the conditions, and demonstrating how anyone in virtually any school setting can begin to successfully replicate these conditions. Includes case studies.

A collection of stories that profile the education of twelve great Americans in history including Benjamin Franklin and Abigail Adams, Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy, and Elvis Presley.

Discusses the details and the impact of the Supreme Court's decision in Lemon v. Kurtzman, which was about the use of public funds in connection with religion.

A guide for teens interested in education and training, profiling thirty-five careers including college professor, corporate trainer, education attorney, and librarian, and featuring questions and activities designed to help teens discover their strengths, talents, and work personality.

Explores how children are forced to give up their love of learning and instead fall into a frantic game of rushing through work in order to please teachers and meet state standards and offers practical suggestions to help educators work with students' love of learning, rather than destroying it.

Contains more than five hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions of education-related terms, phrases, buzzwords, and jargon.

Presents debate-style essays on twenty educational issues including grading, discipline programs, abstinence-only programs, school uniforms, American history, and achievement-level tracking.

Contains facts, tables, charts, and statistics that provide current and historical information on several aspects of and issues in education, including special school populations, students at risk, teachers, elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, national policies for improvement, testing, and public opinion.

Examines the issue of student rights in the public school setting, providing an overview of student rights history, featuring a chronology of selected major legislation and Supreme Court cases, and discussing freedom of speech, school searches, property rights, equal education, religion, and other topics.