Education

Part 1
Raising a Bilingual Child
by Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D.
If you would like your children to experience the benefits of becoming bilingual, but you aren't sure how to teach them a second language, then Raising a Bilingual Child is the perfect step-by-step guide for you.

Part 1
The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do
by Peg Tyre
From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. They get expelled from preschool nearly five times more often than girls; in elementary school, they're diagnosed with learning disorders four times as often.

The Power of the Hook
The College Hook: Packaging Yourself to Win the College Admissions Game
by Pam Proctor
A comprehensive guide to the powerful packaging tool called the 'Hook' - a special talent or achievement that leaps off the page of a college application and catches the eye of admissions officers.

Reading, Writing, and Your First Grader
What Your First Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good First-Grade Education
by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
What will your child be expected to learn in the first grade? How can you help him or her at home? How can teachers foster active, successful learning in the classroom? This book answers these all-important questions and more

Continued Education Failure
The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them
by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
For over fifty years, American schools have operated under the assumption that challenging children academically is unnatural for them, that teachers do not need to know the subjects they teach, that the learning 'process' should be emphasized

What Is Your Child Learning In School?
What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know
by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
What should your child learn in the sixth grade? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon

The Target Audience
A Is for Admission: The Insider's Guide to Getting into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges
by Michele A. Hernandez
For years it has been one of America's most guarded secrets. Now for the first time, an Ivy League admissions officer breaks the code of silence to take you behind the closed doors of one of the most rigorous and competitive decision-making procedures

Girls and Women
by Harriet E. Paine
What is a practical education for a girl? Whatever will fit her for life. The question and answer are trite. What will best fit a girl for life? First of all a well-balanced character. I knew a girl who was a good cook before she was ten years old

How to Get on in the World: A Ladder to Practical Success
by Major A.R. Calhoon
Although not the same kind, there is as much difference between education and learning, as there is between character and reputation. Learning may be regarded as mental capital, in the way of accumulated facts.

Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles
by C. W. Saleeby, M.D.
In the last chapter brief reference was made to the effects of ill-timed mental strain. Our principles have already led us to the conclusion that there are special risks for girls involved in educational strain

Success
by Baron Max Aitken Beaverbrook
A great number of letters have reached me from young men who seem to think that the road to success is barred to them owing to defects in their education. To them I would send this message: Never believe that success cannot come your way because you have

Studies in Pessimism
by Arthur Schopenhauer
The human intellect is said to be so constituted that general ideas arise by abstraction from particular observations, and therefore come after them in point of time. If this is what actually occurs, as happens in the case of a man who has to depend

Health and Education
by Rev. Charles Kingsley
Fresh from the Marbles of the British Museum, I went my way through London streets. My brain was still full of fair and grand forms; the forms of men and women whose every limb and attitude betokened perfect health, and grace, and power, and a self-posses

Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women
by George S. Weaver
Education, strictly speaking, covers the whole area of life. It is the word which means all God asks of us, all we owe to him, the world, and ourselves - that great word which expresses the sum total of human duty.

The Family and it's Members
by Anna Garlin Spencer
To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge, and we judge the value of any training solely by reference to this end. For complete living we must know in what way to treat the body, in what way to treat the mind

Religious Education in the Family
by Henry F. Cope
The ills of the modern home are symptomatic. Divorce, childless families, irreverent children, and the decadence of the old type of separate home life are signs of forgotten ideals, lost motives, and insufficient purposes.

How to Use Your Mind
by Harry D. Kitson, Ph.D.
The kindly reception accorded to the first edition of this book has confirmed the author in his conviction that such a book was needed, and has tempted him to bestow additional labor upon it. The chief changes consist in the addition of two new chapters

The American Child
by Elizabeth McCracken
An elderly woman was talking to me not long ago about her childhood. 'No, my dear, I did not have a governess,' she said, in answer to my questionings. 'Neither did I attend the public schools, though I lived in the city. I went to a private school.

Parent and Child, Volume III
by Mosiah Hall
There are four great agencies or factors concerned in the training and education of the child: these are, the home, the school, the church, and the state, or society. Of these, the home ought to be the most helpful since it is the most important.

Treatise on Parents and Children
by George Bernard Shaw
To my mind, a glance at the subjects now taught in schools ought to convince any reasonable person that the object of the lessons is to keep children out of mischief, and not to qualify them for their part in life as responsible citizens of a free State.