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Japan: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
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Japan: The Essential Guide to Customs & CultureCulture Smart! Japan will guide you through modern Japan’s shifting social and cultural maze. It provides invaluable insights into people’s attitudes and behavior, and practical tips to help make your visit to this complex, rich, and dynamic society a mutually rewarding experience. Today Japan is at a crossroads. The postwar economic miracle is over and the balance of power in Asia is shifting as new players enter the field.
 
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The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
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The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled ProfessionThe Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

A brilliant young scholar's history of 175 years of teaching in America shows that teachers have always borne the brunt of shifting, often impossible expectations.
 
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Tags: America, impossible, often, shifting, expectations, Teacher, Profession, Embattled, History
Over-Tested and Under-Prepared: Using Competency Based Learning to Transform Our Schools
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Over-Tested and Under-Prepared: Using Competency Based Learning to Transform Our SchoolsThe curriculum-driven instructional model has been the standard method of teaching for more than a century, but it is consistently failing to produce well-educated citizens and lifelong learners. Pressured by standardized testing and rigid pacing guidelines, teachers are forced to cover too much content too quickly, without being able to meet the needs of individual students. In this powerful new book from acclaimed author and speaker Bob Sornson, you’ll learn how shifting from curriculum-based instruction to competency based learning can help students become more successful, confident, and engaged learners.
 
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Tags: students, learners, shifting, learn, curriculum-based
Signs of Change: New Directions in Theatre Education
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Signs of Change: New Directions in Theatre Education

There is no one-size-fits-all way to keep pace with the changes affecting students and those who educate them. That’s why Joan Lazarus has gathered here the insights of hundreds of theater teachers and teaching artists on how they have responded to the shifting demands of theater education in today’s schools.
 
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Washington: The Making of the American Capital (audiobook)
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Washington: The Making of the American Capital (audiobook)

Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.—a place one contemporary observer called a mere swamp "producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormous size)," a district that was strategically indefensible, captive to the politics of slavery, and a target of unbridled land speculation—our nation's capital? In Washington, award-winning author Fergus M. Bordewich turns his eye to the backroom deal making and shifting alliances among our Founding Fathers and in so doing pulls back the curtain on the lives of the slaves who actually built the city.
 
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Tags: Washington, making, backroom, shifting, alliances