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301) Lulu's lemonade
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Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On a hot summer day, three children squabble over which ingredients and what quantities should go into their extra special lemonade.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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Description
Assessing Student Learning is a standard reference for college faculty and administrators, and the third edition of this highly regarded book continues to offer comprehensive, practical, plainspoken guidance. The third edition adds a stronger emphasis on making assessment useful; greater attention to building a culture in which assessment is used to inform important decisions; an enhanced focus on the many settings of assessment, especially general...
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Pub. Date
2007
Description
The pressure is on at schools across America. In recent years, reforms such as No Child Left Behind have created a new vision of education that emphasizes provable results, uniformity, and greater attention for floundering students. Schools are expected to behave more like businesses and judged almost solely on the bottom line: test scores.
To see if this world is producing better students, Linda Perlstein immersed herself in a suburban Maryland...
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Pub. Date
1997
Description
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Grado 5-8. Este llamativo libro hace comparaciones basadas en cantidades conocidas en lugar de medidas numéricas. Por ejemplo, el peso de la ballena azul se compara verbal y gráficamente con el peso de 26 elefantes africanos. Los pliegos de doble página se dedican a la medición de tamaños, pesos, volúmenes, alturas, velocidades y distancias comparativas. El alcance incluye el cosmos, la Tierra y la vida en...
309) Too tall Alice
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Alice is worried that she is four inches taller than the rest of the girls in class until she has a dream, which takes her to a place where the tall girls live and she finds somewhere to belong.
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2014.
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"From the same hilarious wellspring of failure as the bestselling F in Exams and F for Effort comes this all new collection of inventively wrong, totally real test responses by students who don't know the answer, but come up with something better instead. Featuring crucial but often understudied subjects including English (Q: Name a key theme in Madame Bovary. A: Cows), Geography (Q: Where can you find the Andes? A: Google Earth.), Science (Q: Describe...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today, millions have viewed and subscribed to the Khan Academy's YouTube videos, which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject. Like all great innovators, Sal Khan established himself...
314) Spring weather
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Pub. Date
1991.
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Explores all of the climatic changes that signify the spring season around the world.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
An indispensable guide to acing the SAT--as well as the affecting story of a single mom's quest to light a fire under her teenage son. It all began as Debbie's attempt to help her high-school-age son, Ethan. Aware that Ethan was a typical teenager (i.e., completely uninterested in any test) and that a mind-boggling menu of test-prep options existed, she decided--on his behalf--to sample as many as she could, to create the perfect SAT test-prep recipe....
320) The longitude prize
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The story of John Harrison, inventor of watches and clocks, who spent forty years working on a time-machine which could be used to accurately determine longitude at sea.
