Education

A guide to help ensure that a greater number of students are truly ready for college and work.

To help navigate the process, Job Searching with Social Media For Dummies covers all of the most popular social media sites, such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, and more

A book of practical, clear, and powerful ideas to help leaders improve the teaching and learning in their schools. This title is part of the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education series, a collection of books written by experts on various topics within Educational Leadership.

The only modern guide to interpreting and writing real property descriptions for surveyors

This book chronicles the life and work of the dynamic and controversial Michelle Rhee -- from her first teaching job in a West Baltimore classroom to her most recent position as chancellor of Washington DC public schools.  It provides an in-depth look at the fundamental problems in our current education system, and -- most of all -- about the politics of leadership.

Authors Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring discuss their new book, The Innovative University.

From change guru Michael Fullan -- the essential skill-set of the successful leader and the importance of practice in developing powerful leadership.

Jerome Schultz, an expert at Harvard Medical School and sought-after speaker, reveals the real reason kids with ADHD and LD hate school and aren’t achieving at their potential—they’re under constant stress. Offers guidance for parents and teachers to help kids manage stress in ways that will improve learning, behavior, and self-esteem.

Why does the recovery from post-bubble recessions tend to take so long and why do government policies that can work well against normal recessions have trouble speeding up the recovery process after an asset-price bubble collapses?

Dr. Alan L Rubin’s Vitamin D For Dummies is a timely resource to in understanding how the vitamin works, how much is needed for disease prevention, how and where to get sufficient amounts of the right kind of Vitamin D, and how to maintain healthy levels.

For writers looking for tips of the trade, Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies® features essential information and steps necessary to write a fiction book for young adults, from developing an idea to publication. 

Unlock your students' potential to truly understand what they are learning with these easy-to-implement, classroom-tested Thinking Routines developed by Harvard Graduate School of Education's famed Project Zero.

In Stem Cells For Dummies®, authors Lawrence S.B. Goldstein, PhD, and Meg Schneider present the latest unbiased facts on the science and discuss the hope of what's to come.

Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors tells the real-life story of Locke High School. Locke High– originally known for its excellence–became one of the toughest, most dysfunctional schools in the nation. Then in 2007 teachers voted to bring in an upstart charter school organization called Green Dot to try and restore the Locke Saints' past glory. It was a brave and desperate move. Working in secrecy, the school principal, a small group of teachers, and Green Dot's charismatic founder, Steve Barr, convince Locke teachers to support a petition that will take the school away from the Los Angeles Unified School District. The "new" Locke opened in the fall of 2008.

In his new book, The Seed: Finding Purpose and Happiness in Life and Work, Jon Gordon, the international and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Energy Bus, takes readers on an enlightening and life-changing quest to finding passion, purpose, and happiness in one’s life and work.

A friendly guide to navigating the terminology and process of M&A.

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