Across the country educators are facing the challenge of restructuring the secondary school to meet the needs of students in the twenty-first century. Block scheduling provides sustained time and fost
Mathematics teachers and school library media specialists will find this book a valuable resource for using the Web to promote critical thinking in the high school mathematics classroom. It is filled
This book tells the story of Emanuel Goldberg, a chemist, inventor, and industrialist who contributed to almost every aspect of imaging technology in the first half of the 20th century. Despite his a
School library media specialists know that a close collaboration between the school principal and themselves is critical in the development of an exemplary school library media program, but they are o
What does it take to have a great library? The right leader? A great team? A wonderful facility? The best services? How can you transform your library to better meet the demands of tomorrow? This aut
Emerging from the Children's Literature Assembly's postconference workshop following the 1999 NCTE fall conference, this compilation of delivered speeches and reflective chapters offers insight into t
More than 150 Web sites featuring primary source documents will help students build students' critical thinking skills and meet national science standards.
One of the most important emerging novelists today, Khaled Hosseini has enjoyed critical success and popular accolades. His first book, "The Kite Runner," was voted Reading Group Book of the Year in 2
This comprehensive overview of Julia Alvarez's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry offers biographical information and parses the author's important works and the intentions behind them.
Hand them this easy-to-use, comprehensive guide to researching 100 popular research papers, and high school students will get off on the right track on their research papers. Designed by a reference
Accurate instruction about American Indian people has been woefully inadequate to date. This guide will enable the school library media specialist to help teachers and students teach and learn about A
The Standards Committee of the Art Libraries Society of North America produced this comprehensive planning manual to provide guidelines for assessing the adequacy of physical facilities, and for plann
This book examines the relationships between archives, communities and collective memory through both the lens of a postcolonial society, the United States Virgin Islands, a former colony of Denmark,
