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Academic success Aspiring writer's collection Building trades ;. no.II Complete career & techincal education library ; Volume 1 Construction and building trades English collection Late lessons from early warnings Path to publication Science collection (New York, N.Y.) Ultimate media librarian collectionSummary: Referring to the work of Piaget, Erikson, and Goffman as well as to the studies of David Elkind, this program looks at the intellectual, emotional, and social consequences resulting from adolescent changes in thinking - a transition that can create social and emotional difficulties. The video includes footage of a public middle school and structured interviews illustrating the intellectual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1999
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Summary: If Mark and his colleagues are to meet a tight research deadline, they will have to read faster-and smarter-than ever. This dramatization illustrates the value of taking a time-saving approach to reading, which includes using skimming and active reading techniques, taking advantage of reader-friendly devices designed to help pinpoint information, and diligently concentrating on the content...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: It may be the single greatest cause of disagreement, and even moral disdain, between family members, neighbors, and entire nationalities-but the way we raise our children is also tied to deeply ingrained beliefs and traditions. This program examines the subject, focusing on wide disparities between cultures in the matter of parenting and child-rearing. From India's Tihar prison, where some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Reading rate and comprehension can mean the difference between success and failure to students. Three strategies for improving both are presented in this program. The first suggests reading during the day, for short periods in a quiet place, for maximum efficiency. One method demonstrates how to divide words into groups on a page as an effective way of improving reading rate. The SQ3R Strategy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This teleconference for teachers, administrators, and parents addresses the issues of improving comprehension; cognitive coaching; the link between thinking, reading, and writing; and the integration of instruction and assessment. The program features Syracuse University Professor Harold Herber, Professor Dorothy Strickland of Rutgers University, Robert Peterkin of Harvard University's Urban...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A torrent of e-mails, faxes, memos, reports, contracts, and newsletters threatens to drown the typical new hire in a sea of paper and text. With simple methods for tackling an immense volume of content, this program helps students manage workplace reading tasks quickly and efficiently without overlooking important information. Featured tips show viewers how to stay focused, prioritize reading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Heading for Peace continues the biography of T. E. Lawrence from the year 1917 as he and the Arabs continue to attack and undermine the Turks. Upon Turkish surrender, the Balfour Declaration paves the way for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and Lawrence leads the Arabs in an allied race for the city. But soon after, British duplicity is exposed. Now a celebrated figure to the British public,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: This program examines the power of professional pollsters to influence public opinion. Public opinion pollsters and market researchers serve virtually every facet of American culture. Nearly everyone-from the makers of cake mix to television executives and candidates for public office-seeks to become the intimate of our private opinions for the purposes of their own strategies. In the hands of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Faced with a mountain of research to conduct, reading to do, and papers to write, students must work both efficiently and shrewdly. This three-section program tells how to identify and cite reliable online and offline sources of information, carve textbook chapters into manageable chunks, and outline and revise papers-all elements that are essential to getting the job done well. Correlates to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In segment one of this volume, authors Mark Childress, Janet Fitch, and Glen David Gold read and talk about their previously unpublished works. In the second segment, "Conversations," Oakley Hall-founder of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, author of 24 novels, and former writing teacher-presents 15 tips that every writer needs to know, beginning with Write every day, Observe and listen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Adolescents have both the cognitive and the emotional capacity to deepen their emotional intelligence, and for that reason secondary schools are being viewed as an ideal setting in which to teach and promote EI. In this program, Dr. Karen Hansen, coordinator of the EI and Education Research Unit of Swinburne University, compares and contrasts definitions and models of EI. In addition, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Human beings were never born to read. This program seeks to understand how the brain, which has evolved no hardwired "reading center," made the leap to literacy; why reading well-crafted writing is so profoundly important to intellectual and emotional development; and whether the Internet, with its blogs and videos and games, is placing novels-a prime type of reading material for nurturing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: As a gasoline additive, lead suppresses engine knock. Lead is also a well-known poison, and yet during the 1920s it was championed over safer alternatives-and even backed by the U.S. surgeon general. Why? This program presents the history of leaded gasoline and its impact on human health and intelligence, most notably as documented in Herbert Needleman's controversial study of schoolchildren....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: On the face of it, this seems the worst of times for the political radical. The consensus seems to be that dissent died with the '60s. People today are too contented and too rich, or too poor and put upon to protest anything; we've become a nation of couch potatoes. But stop a minute and consider this: in 1988, at the height of the Reagan-Bush era, more than 500 students were arrested in campus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: "Kids will build confidence and avoid summer slide as they master early literacy skills with interactive games, challenges, and storybooks. Summer Reading helps kids stay motivated, maintain reading skills, and learn all summer long!"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1955
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Summary: Partitions and walls containing plumbing pipes or heating ducts often need to be constructed differently in order to safely accommodate these systems and meet building codes. This program details a number of common industry techniques used in these situations, including accompanying electrical considerations. Correlates to the Competencies and Objectives of the National Center for Construction...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005