The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World’s Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom
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In the first edition of The Teaching Gap, the authors drew on the conclusions of the 1999 Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) — an innovative study of teaching in several cultures — to refocus education reform efforts. Foremost among the authors’ initial discoveries was that reform must start with dramatic changes in the culture of teaching. Using videotaped lessons from dozens of randomly selected eighth-grade classrooms in the United States, Japan, and Germany, the authors offered a surprising view of teaching and a bold action plan for improving education inside the American classroom. They called for a cultural shift within schools that would demand perpetual teacher training, with stricter requirements, better peer review, higher academic standards, and more shoptalk between teachers. Ten years on, the authors share their latest discoveries and offer fresh solutions for the American school system, which has long lagged behind international standards in nearly every area of academic achievement. If given the opportunity, teachers can change the way our students learn.In a time when educators and politicians in the United States are fumbling for a fix–from vouchers to smaller class sizes–for ailing public schools, it’s refreshing to read the more sophisticated take on what can be done to improve American education found in The Teaching Gap, a straightforward analysis of approaches towards teaching around the world. James W. Stigler, a UCLA psychology professor, and James Hiebert, an education professor at the University of Delaware, argue that America’s culture of teaching needs to be changed before we see any real change in student achievement–and they’re not simply talking about higher pay and more respect. Read the rest of this entry »
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Algorithm Theory – SWAT 2002: 8th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, Turku, Finland, July 3-5, 2002 Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, SWAT 2002, held in Turku, Finland, in July 2002.
The 43 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on scheduling, computational geometry, graph algorithms, robotics, approximation algorithms, data communication, computational biology, and data storage and manipulation.
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
This introduction to compilers is the direct descendant of the well-known book by Aho and Ullman, Principles of Compiler Design. The authors present updated coverage of compilers based on research and techniques that have been developed in the field over the past few years. The book provides a thorough introduction to compiler design and covers topics such as context-free grammars, fine state machines, and syntax-directed translation. 0201100886B04062001
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Andy Field’s self-deprecating, vivacious but yet easy to understand writing style has won him many plaudits, and now an award from the British Psychological Society (2007), for his irreplaceable Discovering Statistics Using SPSS. The Third Edition is now even more accessible to the introductory student at the very beginning of their statistical journey. The textbook now uniquely walks students from very basic to advanced level concepts, all the while grounding knowledge though the use of SPSS.
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Schaum’s Outline of Discrete Mathematics, Revised Third Edition (Schaum’s Outline Series)
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