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Bringing Montessori to America traces in engrossing detail one of the most fascinating partnerships in the history of American education - that between Maria Montessori and S. S. McClure, from their first meeting in 1910 until their final acrimonious dispute in 1915.

Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Marshall Loeb have scoured the print media and have consulted with editors of major business and general-interest publications and with the deans of several schools of journalism in order to find the 30 best business stories from the past 12 months. Among the articles selected: Ken Auletta on Herb Allen's CEO retreat, from The New Yorker; Diane Brady on Martha Stewart, from Business Week; and Steve Silberman on creating a borderless global cyber-marketplace, from Wired.

In 2002, New York City's newly elected mayor Michael Bloomberg made a historic announcement: His administration had won control of the city's school system in a first step toward reversing its precipitous decline. In a controversial move, he appointed Joel Klein, an accomplished lawyer from outside the education establishment, to lead this ambitious campaign. Lessons of Hope is Klein's inside account of his eight-year mission of improvement.

Learn Crash Courses presents COMLEX Level 3, developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening. This course is a valuable tool when preparing for your Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination or COMLEX Level 3. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you need to know to succeed on the COMLEX Level 3 Examination. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized chapters.

Newspaperman tells the story of how an immigrant's shy son from Queens, New York, rose to the top of his industry, powered by little more than passion, brains, and hard work. Phillips began his career working as a copyboy for the New York Herald Tribune for 16 dollars a week... and ended it as publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of its parent corporation, Dow Jones & Company. The life story of Warren Phillips is the story of the American newspaper business.

Passar em um concurso público é o sonho de muitas pessoas: estabilidade, boa remuneração e excelentes benefícios. Mas a concorrência é grande, o que exige perseverança, dedicação, prática com as provas anteriores e muitas horas de estudo do candidato. Thiago de Luca traz nesta obra conceitos administrativos que são cobrados em diversas provas para cargos públicos de todo o país. De forma didática, explica as teorias administrativas e apresenta mais 271 questões, 137 questões respondidas e comentadas e 134 para que o ouvinte pratique o que aprendeu.

What do you get when a man decides to spend a year walking to improve his health, his relationships, his business, his mind, his spirit and his soul? Walking, Living, Learning! is the result of Al Argo's year of walking around Asia and the USA while listening to 66 books covering such topics as small business management, personal relationships, parenting skills, communication skills, and much, much more. If you want to be successful, hang around successful people and read what successful people are reading and writing!

You are no doubt a busy individual with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to study for the Certified Nursing Assistant exam. However, the truth is that the CNA test is a challenging exam. It is normal to have some anxiety about taking this test. Thorough preparation cannot be overlooked. That is why the author Maila Barajas, a healthcare professional, developed the CNA Study Guide! This edition is a practice questions & complete review edition!

You are no doubt a busy professional with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to study in preparation for the NMLS exam. However, the truth is that the NMLS test is a challenging test. It is normal to have some anxiety about taking this test.

You are no doubt a busy individual with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to study for the CPCE exam. However, the truth is that the CPCE test is a challenging exam. It is normal to have some anxiety about taking this test. Thorough preparation cannot be overlooked. That is why the author Lila Callahan developed the CPCE Study Guide! This edition is a Complete Review & Practice Questions Edition!

Embark on your journey to nursing excellence with "ATI TEAS Ultimate Exam Prep: Strategies, Insights, and Practice for Nursing School Entry" – more than just a study guide, it's your essential companion on the path to nursing school success!

Drone Essential Knowledge and Skills (DEKS) is about helping students go from general awareness of drones to flying safely as part of a team, then earning the FAA Part 107 commercial license, and starting their own drone business. Drones are becoming more relevant and pervasive in our schools and society. DEKS are designed to scaffold students through knowledge of drones, safety and responsible usage, technical knowledge, and skills to become a commercial drone operator, intern with a drone business, then build their own drone business in their local community.

The stories in this book are all of real encounters, ranging from backstage encounters in universities that reveal the social world of academe to lessons learned from anxiety-ridden sororities girls to a transforming encounter with a Black man who grew from a child working at jobs such as a chicken-catcher at nights to support his family and became successful and wealthy to the point that he was able to buy the movie theater that forced him to sit in the balcony when he was young.

What is the most important life lesson to pass on when faced with our own mortality? What leadership attributes do you want to instill in your children? Fanny Rules: A Mother's Leadership Lessons That Never Grow Old contains a lifetime of principles broken down into nine lessons passed on to a 12-year-old boy from his mother's bedside.

In Woody Allen's 1973 film, Sleeper, a character wakes up in the future to learn that civilization was destroyed when "a man by the name of Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead." Shanker was condemned by many when he shut down the New York City school system in the bitter strikes of 1967 and 1968, and he was denounced for stirring up animosity between Black parents and Jewish teachers. Later, however, he built alliances with Blacks, and at the time of his death in 1997, such figures as Bill Clinton celebrated Shanker for being an educational reformer.

In Woven Together: How Unpacking Your Teacher Identity Creates a Stronger Learning Community, expert educator Dr. Courtney E. Rose delivers a student-driven approach to teaching that demonstrates how to bring your full self to the classroom. You'll learn to create space for your students to do the same thing, de-standardizing the current norms of the classroom while embracing their unique experiences, perspectives, and understandings to create more meaningful learning experiences.

He Chose You is a personal message to tweens of God's unconditional love for them. His perfect understanding of the needs of tweens today is shown in each detail revealed to us when Christ's chose to die on the cross for all. Illustrating his points with stories today's tweens will be able to apply to their lives, Lucado reveals to tweens the gifts of the cross.

This book will give anyone in public safety a guide on how to prepare for promotion to special assignments or higher rank. It is short, to the point, hard hitting, and thought provoking.

In this book, we provide you with the necessary information to get your Notary license and start your Notary service with confidence.

Steve Schwartz, founder of LSAT Unplugged, authored this series of LSAT PrepTest explanations for over 1,000 LSAT questions. These are detailed step-by-step explanations for each question within that specific LSAT PrepTest section. LSAT PrepTest 47: Logical Reasoning Explanations shows you how to diagram using formal logic (if necessary) and how to approach the each question type. And, of course, it explains all the answer choices without resorting to useless phrases like "out of scope".