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The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (Hardcover)

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

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*Starred Review* As an education historian and former assistant secretary of education, Ravitch has witnessed the trends in public education over the past 40 years and has herself swung from public-school advocate to market-driven accountability and choice supporter back to public-school advocate. With passion and insight, she analyzes research and draws on interviews with educators, philanthropists, and business executives to question the current direction of reform of public education. In the mid-1990s, the movement to boost educational standards failed on political concerns; next came the emphasis on accountability with its reliance on standardized testing. Now educators are worried that the No Child Left Behind mandate that all students meet proficiency standards by 2014 will result in the dismantling of public schools across the nation. Ravitch analyzes the impact of choice on public schools, attempts to quantify quality teaching, and describes the da (more…)

McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs (Kindle Edition)

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs

Learn the language of Nebraska . . .and 49 other statesWith more entries than any other reference of its kind, McGraw-Hill-s Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs shows you how American English is spoken today. You will find commonly used phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, proverbial expressions, and cliches. The dictionary contains more than 24,000 entries, each defined and followed by one or two example sentences. It also includes a Phrase-Finder Index with more than 60,000 entries.

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The most comprehensive, in-depth guide to common American idioms and phraseology available The hardest part of getting the hang of a language is making sense of its idioms. From proverbial expressions such as “a stitch in time saves nine,” to idioms such as “dead ringer,” to such common verbal phrases as “put out” and “take on,” these colorful constructions, so abundant in American English, seem to serve no other purpose than to f (more…)

New American Webster Handy College Dictionary, 4th Edition (Newly Revised) (Mass Market Paperback)

New American Webster Handy College Dictionary, 4th Edition (Newly Revised)

The essential dictionary for school, college, office and home, The fourth edition of The New American Webster Handy College Dictionary contains more features than any other pocket dictionary including: – Boxed inserts on etymologies and language usage – Pronunciation key on each page – Current phrases, slang, and scientific terms – Special notes on word origins – World gazetteer – Tables of weights and measurements

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