Top 10 Best "Learning Tools" Books

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Ian H. Witten
Eibe Frank

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Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning

Douglas Wilson
Marvin Olasky

Learning Tools

Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning

Public education in America has run into hard times. Even many within the system admit that it is failing. While many factors contribute, Douglas Wilson lays much blame on the idea that education can take place in a moral vacuum. It is not possible for education to be nonreligious, deliberately excluding the basic questions about life. All education builds on the foundation of someone's worldview. Education deals with fundamental questions that require religious answers. Learning to read and write is simply the process of acquiring the tools to ask and answer such questions.

A second reason for the failure of public schools, Wilson feels, is modern teaching methods. He argues for a return to a classical education, firm discipline, and the requirement of hard work.

Often educational reforms create new problems that must be solved down the road. This book presents alternatives that have proved workable in experience.

"Good at diagnosing our educational afflictions, Douglas Wilson is still better at finding remedies. His Logos School prov...

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The Art of Public Speaking with Learning Tools Suite (Student CD-ROMs 5.0, Audio Abridgement CD set, PowerWeb, & Topic Finder)

Stephen Lucas

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Sidman's Neuroanatomy

Douglas J. Gould
Jennifer K. Brueckner

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Creative Expression in Transformative Learning

Chad Hoggan (Ed.)
Soni Simpson (Ed.)
Heather Stuckey (Ed.)
Chad Hoggan
Soni Simpson

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Power Tools for Adolescent Literacy

Jan Rozzelle
Carol Scearce

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Critical Thinking

For Student Success and Career Development, or Critical Thinkingcourses. Written by two of the leading experts inthe field,this book's approach to critical thinking is as a process for taking charge of and responsibility for one’s thinking. Critical Thinking is based in theory developed over the last 30 years, it focuses on an integrated, comprehensive concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and practical; it fosters the development of basic intellectual skills students need to think through content in any class, subject, or discipline, as well as through any problem or issue they face. Simply stated, this text offers students the intellectual tools they need for lifelong learning, and rational, conscientious living.In this edition, several advanced chapters were eliminated,many diagramshave been added or enhanced, and the glossary of critical thinking terms has been more strongly developed.The authors’ website provides valuable resources to enhancestudents' development as thinkers www.criticalthinking.org

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Critical Thinking

Richard Paul
Linda Elder

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Pam Berger
Sally Trexler

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