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Maria Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. Her educational method is in use today in public and private schools throughout the world. In 1947 she returned to India and gave courses in Adyar and Ahmedabad. These courses led to the book The Absorbent Mind, in which Montessori described the development of the child from birth onwards and...
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Great Courses volume 9
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Logic is intellectual self-defense against such assaults on reason and also a method of quality control for checking the validity of your own views. But beyond these very practical benefits, informal logic—the kind we apply in daily life—is the gateway to an elegant and fascinating branch of philosophy known as formal logic, which is philosophy’s equivalent to calculus. Formal logic is a breathtakingly versatile tool. Much like a Swiss army...
3) How we think
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"How We Think" by John Dewey is a groundbreaking exploration of the process of thinking and its role in education and problem-solving. In this influential work, Dewey delves into the nature of intelligence, inquiry, and reflective thought, offering valuable insights into how individuals can enhance their thinking abilities and engage in meaningful learning experiences. The book begins by challenging traditional notions of thinking as a passive, linear...
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Learning Colors Has Never Been So Much Fun!
Meet the Colors is a delightful series designed to teach babies and toddlers to identify colors. Children are introduced to colors through adorable characters that they will soon know and love. Preschool Prep Series™ have won hundreds of awards and are used in millions of homes and schools around the world. You will be amazed at how easily your little one can learn colors!™
Featuring: Red, Orange,...
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Does the celebrated harmonic series diverge or converge? Discover a proof using the integral test. Then generalize to define an entire class of series called p-series, and prove a theorem showing when they converge. Close with the sum of the harmonic series, the fascinating Euler-Mascheroni constant, which is not known to be rational or irrational.
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Learning Phonics Has Never Been This Easy!™
Meet the Letters taught children to recognize letter characters. Now, with Meet the Letter Sounds, children will learn the different sounds that each letter makes. Meet the Letter Sounds also introduces children to basic phonics rules, such as "r-controlled vowels" and "silent e." Meet the Letter Sounds is one of the three part Meet the Phonics Series that teaches Letter Sounds, Digraphs, and Blends....
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Prepare to enter a world of what fashion designer Michael Kors has called "stylish intrigue, glamorous machinations, and such juicy fun." Take a wild ride with Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Hopper, who have culled their insider's purview to peel back Oscar's legendary curtain and reveal what really goes on under the sheets of Young Hollywood. Do Happy Hollywood Endings really exist, or does everyone end up on the cutting room floor sooner or later?...
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"Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker were ready to reform our failing schools. They got an education. When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools -- and to solve the education crisis in every city in America -- it looked like a huge win for then-mayor Cory Booker and governor Chris Christie. But their plans soon ran into a constituency not so easily moved...
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Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award
Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists.
Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence,...
Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists.
Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence,...
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Learning Phonics Has Never Been This Easy!™
Children will fall in love with these wonderful characters as they Meet the Blends. Two letters that come together and keep their own sounds are taught in primary school as "letter blends." Meet the Blends makes learning to identify blends fun and easy. Meet the Blends teaches 20 basic blends that are taught in primary schools across the country. Blends are taught both alone and in word context. Preschool...
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Learning Phonics Has Never Been This Easy!™
Children will fall in love with these wonderful characters as they Meet the Digraphs. Two letters that come together to form a single sound are taught in primary school as "letter digraphs." Meet the Digraphs makes learning to identify digraphs fun and easy. Meet the Digraphs teaches 13 basic digraphs that are taught in schools across the country. Digraphs are taught both alone and in the context of words....
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A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past--and shows how we can revolutionize it for our era of constant change
Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925, when the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors, in an attempt to prepare young people for a world transformed by the telegraph and the Model T. As Cathy N. Davidson argues in The...
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"The Dreamkeepers, Gloria Ladson-Billings explored the positive signs for the future of education for African American students. Who are the successful teachers? What do they do? And how can we learn from them? Her portraits of eight exemplary teachers who differ in personal style and methods but share an approach to teaching that affirms and strengthens cultural identity are inspiring and full of hope. Through these outstanding teachers, she shows...
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Forget everything you think you know about school reform. Cutting through the cant, sentiment, and obfuscation characterizing the current school reform debate, Frederick M. Hess lacerates the conventional "status quo" reform efforts and exposes the naiveté underlying reform strategies that rest on solutions like class size reduction, small schools, and enhanced professional development. He explains that real improvement requires a bracing regime...
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Learning To Addition & Subtraction Has Never Been This Easy!™
Meet the Math Facts videos make adding and subtracting fun and easy! You will learn basic addition and subtraction through fact families. With fun characters that you will grow to love, levels 1, 2, & 3 will teach you to easily recall basic addition and subtraction math facts to 10 + 10.
Primary School Prep is a division of Preschool Prep Company, home to a complete set of learning...
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Learning To Addition & Subtraction Has Never Been This Easy!™
Meet the Math Facts videos make adding and subtracting fun and easy! You will learn basic addition and subtraction through fact families. With fun characters that you will grow to love, levels 1, 2, & 3 will teach you to easily recall basic addition and subtraction math facts to 10 + 10.
Primary School Prep is a division of Preschool Prep Company, home to a complete set of learning...
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