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Study on the go with VangoNotes. Just download chapter reviews from Introduction to Special Education: Making a Difference, 6/e and listen to them on your mp3 player. Now wherever you are - whatever you're doing - you can study by listening to the following for each chapter of your textbook: Big Ideas: Your "need to know" for each chapter Practice Test: A gut check for the Big Ideas - tells you if you need to keep studying Key Terms: Audio "flashcards" to help you review key concepts and terms Rapid Review: A quick drill session - use it right before your test VangoNotes are flexible ; download all the material directly to your player, or only the chapters you need. And they're efficient . Use them in your car, at the gym, walking to class, wherever. So get yours today. And get studying.

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In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. They lack cultural literacy: a grasp of background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has. Thus even if a student has a basic competence in the English language, he or she has little chance of entering the American mainstream without knowing what a silicon chip is or when the Civil War was fought. A major best seller that has engendered a nationwide debate on our educational standards, Cultural Literacy is must listening for parents, teachers, and anyone else concerned with our future as a literate nation.

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Family Affairs explores the memories, lessons, and complications of childhood. Exquisite stories by Peter Moore Smith, Donald Hall, and Mona Simpson are given voice by three superb actors: Gil Bellows, Richard Schiff, and Julianna Margulies. We b…

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What's Your Religious Literacy IQ? Quick - can you: Name the four Gospels? Name a sacred text of Hinduism? Name the holy book of Islam? Name the first five books of the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Old Testament? List th…

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Esmé Raji Codell has come to teach, and she's not going to let incompetent administrators, abusive parents, gang members, or her own insecurities get in the way. As she puts it, she has "Thirty-one children. Thirty-one chances. Thirty-one futures, our futures. Everything they become, I also become." Codell's portrait of an inner-city elementary school is funny, poignant, and inspiring. Her struggle to maintain individuality in the face of bureaucracy and her defiant stand against mediocrity will reverberate in companies as well as classrooms everywhere.