Search Results: Education, Mathematics, Early Readers from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

New York.: Signet., 1968. 4th printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Signed by previous owner. Near fine. Back cover shading, either side.. 1 Mass-market paperback. Glued binding. 224 p. Audience: General/trade. Non-Fiction account of a Harlem classroom, and a new teacher educated at Harvard University. It was 1962, and Herbert Kohl found ways to set his students free to explore and expand their own potentials.

New York.: Teachers College Press., 1985. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Sticker label residue, lower front.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 206 p. Special Education. Audience: General/trade. Special Education and Regular Education, for district administrator, building principal, teacher, parent, toward understanding roles and working together. Numerous case examples discuss complexities.

The Junior Class of the University of Vermont, 1930. Hammersmith Kortmeyer Artists, Engravers, Printers: Milwaukee.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Minor discoloration to covers. Signed by Irene Witkus of Newport NH, UVM 1929.. 0 420 p. Includes illustrations. Also 27 pages ads in back. Blue and orange spot color inside. Black leather covered boards, gold embossed building design on front. sepia and B&W photos. Very nice artwork inside. Classicv era for college yearbooks. Students; faculty; Activities, Sports, etc. Cake Walk section.

Keene NH.: J & J W Prentiss., 1830. Designed for Schools and Academies in the United States. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Pencil name, notes. Some pages Missing: fep front, ends at 264, into book-keeping section.. 1 306 p.; 19 cm. Leather spine, paper over sturdy boards, rounded rt. corners. At head of title: 'Adams's New Arithmetic'. Word problems presented here include Massachusetts interest tax law, as well as simple addition, division, etc. This volume is in sad shape, and possesses historic grime, but I would be much the same, if I were held together by strings, put to work most every day, and had been around school populations for 180 years. For the math historian, this is a curious reading copy.

Nashville TN.: Incentive Publications., 2005. 1st printing. IP 390-1.. Wraps. New. No dust jacket as issued. Unused. Front older small price sticker.. Deprez, Mary Patricia, dba Tye Dye Mary, Cover Art by).. 1 Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Tie-dye spiral rainbow cover. Answer keys at back. "Inventive exercises to sharpen skills and raise achievement", subtitle.

Ginn & Company, 1897. 1894 edition, reprinted.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Soiled page edges. Occasional short tear to pages.. 1 197 p. Includes illustrations. Tan cloth covered boards; brown titles and decorations. Classic early reader from a Claremont, N.H. school. Introduction of poets Longfellow and Whittier with enough biographical info for intended age group, making poems more appealing. Large type with pronunciation guides (phonics symbols) for key words. Illustrations from steel engravings.

New York.: The Macmillan Company., 1917. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Corner rubs. Some wear too boards.. 1 270 p. Tan cloth over boards; green titles, front, spine; w/ yellow first letters, front. Numerous B&W photos. "Schools are a laboratory for our democracy", begins the Preface. Further, the expectation is that schools will train children to be good citizens. Written in an era following 3 decades of industrialization, this work strives to develop a renewal in balance between industry and rural farming, a redevelopment of community building. Authors are Jessie Field, formerly Superintendent of Schools in Page County, Iowa, who had published the "Corn Lady"; and Scott Nearing, Professor of Social Science, Toledo University, who had also written "Income", "Social Adjustment" and more. Scott Nearing, by the 1960s, with Helen Nearing, would be central to a back-to-the-land societal interest in hands-on self-sufficiency, clarified in "Living the… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton, 1979. 2nd ed. Glued binding, Audience: General/Trade. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Some shelf wear (a few smudges) foxing, no spine crease, very good.. McIver, Mike (cover design). 1 xii, 153 p. : ill.; 22 cm. Includes Illustrations. Published originally as a part of The Portable Stanford. Includes bibliographical references and index. The author was dean of Engineering at Stanford U. In 1960 worked at JPL designing Venus and Mars spacecraft. has an illustrious career in spacecraft design. This book is about developing many concepts to derive basic solutions to problems. In other words the cultivation of ideas and the best problem solvng abilities. Games and puzzles and examples guide you to answers.

[New York]: Random House / New Mathematical Library / Singer Co., 1961. Mathematical Library lists Editorial Panel, school affiliations.. Trade paperback. Good. Ex-library. Corners clipped, early 2 pages. Sunapee (NH) Central School Library discard;. Cochrane, Florence W (Illustrations by).. 1 Trade publications with diagrams of math problems. 154 p. 23 cm. Math problems; Answer keys; Solutions; Classifications of problems.

New York.: D. Appleton and Company., 1893. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Wear to spine ends and corners. Loosening pages. Top page block gilt good still. General light soiling to pages. Cover paste-on photo scarred.. 1 Dark blue decorated cloth over boards. Ornate gold stamped titles. vi, 102 p. B&W photos, plates, grayscale artwork. 23cm. Floral end papers. American Studies / 19th century New England public schools / Education. Four parts: Old-fashioned school days, 1800-1825; Mid-Century Schools, 1840-1860; The Country School of To-day; Hoe the Scholars Think and Write. Set in recollections, photos, drawings of a school in the Connecticut River Valley, Western Massachusetts. Includes activities out of school.

Guild NH.: Child Development Publishing Company., 2000. First edition. 1st printing.. Wraps. New. No dust jacket as issued. SIGNED by Author.. Clay, Charlotte (Art by).. 1 73 p. Includes illustrations. White glossy illustrated Card stock sealed covers in B&W, gray; character w/ red heart. 28cm. Grampa Dickins (a pen name) was concerned that children needed another friends, as well as a few messages about the world and how to keep safe in it. In pondering these challenges one time, a character came upon him, a small computer, personified, who was a friendly fellow named 'Onetime', with his invisible companion 'Scoop', who loves ice cream. So, two themes are here together. In the first section, readers meet little 'Onetime' while Grampa Dickins narrates his story. In the second section or book, there are a series of in which situations Onetime finds himself, and each time he must choose the safe path. The author encourages children and their caregivers to read together. He… Read More

New York.: Vintage / Random House., 1971. First edition. V-353; 1st Vintage.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Ex-library. Signed by previous owner. Prior owner name on front cover, inked. Spine creasing light.. 1 White paper covers; black titles. 553 p. Education classic. In his forward, journalist and scholar Charles Silberman, in his Foreword, recounts the crises of the 1960s across America. "In an era of radical change...no approach is more impractical than one which takes the present arrangements and practices as given". This volume asks questions about America's classrooms, and proposes changes, reforms, and also for teachers. New readers may ask: In these last nearly 50 years, has America succeeded?

Midwest Publications, 1980. 4th printing.. Hard cover. New. No dust jacket as issued. Sun-fading to spine, minor.. 1 247 p. Includes: index, bibliography. Green covers, white titles, black graphic owl. Recovered by Perma-Bound; original was softcover. 8.25x11in. Never used. Exercises in listening and reading not for face value but critically. High school level into adult.

Chicago / Atlanta / Dallas / New York.: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1936. 376-3.. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Cover good with spine end and corner bumps, exposing boards at corners. Interior: soiling, tears, a few partial pages. Some child's marking.. farnum, nellie, and Biers, Clarence (Illustrated by).. 1 144 p. Includes illustrations. Orange and dark green sealed cloth covered boards, illustrated. End aper silouette city and country scenes in green, peach. Vibrant color illustrations w/ stories. Vocabulary; Teacher's Notes; Index of Social Studies Content. Three story sections, early reader: At school; In the Neighborhood; At the farm. Picture Work pages among the sections. Children arrive at school by bicycle, pony, car, and on foot; the girls wear skirts and the boys wear neckties; elementary ages. Some color or B&W photos interspersed. Presents a picture of the 1930s, rather idyllic, and very mono-culturally Caucasian.

Baltimore MD.: The Johns Hopkins Press., 1936. First edition. Single date on title page.. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket. Untrimmed pages; unread.. 1 Dark green cloth over spine; light green paper over boards; spine cream title box paste-on. 185 p. Geologic maps within one essay. Audience: General/trade. In 1936, author Isaiah Bowman was President of The Johns Hopkins University. This collection of 13 speeches at various educational venues ranges from April 1935 through February 1936.

New York.: St. Martin's Press., 1995. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Price clipped.. 1 Dark blue paper over boards. Silver spine titles. 341 p. Audience: General/trade. A critique about changing trends in American education that were coming into public schools during the early 1990s. For instance, in testing, were the curricula and standardized tests revised for more students to pass but few could excel. And what happens when "self esteem" priorities disallow distinctive achievements in learning?

Scranton PA: International Textbook Company, 1939. '291. Copyrights 1928, 1933, 4 parts.. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket. Unmarked, as new inside. Slight spine edgewear.. 1 136 p. Includes illustrations. Illustrated with mathematical formulae. Black leather over flexible boards, stamped text boxes, raised titles. 5x7.5in. Gold spine titles. Green marbled end papers. "Algebra made easy and interesting" introduction. An incredibly clean 1939 edition; appears unused.

Ames, Iowa: Educational Studies Press and the Iowa State University Research Foundation, 1979. Hard cover. Fine in poor dust jacket. DJ flaps tucked inside; remainder missing.. 0 272 p. B&W photos. Charts. Notes by chapter, pages. Index. Brown cloth covered boards. Gold spine titles. Crisp white text pages. Frontispiece portrait. Biography of educator Ella Flagg Young, b.1845, Buffalo, NY-d.1918, Chicago, IL. Her career spanned more than 50 years of Chicago's growth. She became the first woman to head a major city school system, the first woman to be paid $10, 000 per year for a public service job, and the first woman to be president of the National Education Assn. She was Supt. of Schools in Chicago, 1909-1915.

Touchstone Books, 1991. 11th PB printing.. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Highlighting, notes inside back cover.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Education / Parenting. Growing brains are shaped by experience. In the fast-paced contemporary society, today's generation thinks differently than their parents, having different "habits of mind".

Boston / Norwood MA.: D. Lothrop Co. / Berwick & Smith, Norwood Press., 1921. "One Hundredth Thousand". 1893 ©.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Moderate cover soiling. Paper age toning. End papers w/ compromised binding but holding. Contents selections checkmarked in pencil.. Bridgman, L.J. (Illustrations by).. 1 Light green cloth over boards, black titles, illustrated cover. 85 p. in various pagings; music scores; Pen&Ink artwork. 25 cm. String binding. Author Preface, 1893, "What the child imitates", says Froebel, "he begins to understand". Finger-plays (18) previously published in "Babyland" delivered to homes, kindergartens. The Merry Little Men, The Lambs, The Hen and Chickens, The Little Plant, The Pigs, A Little Boy's Walk, The Squirrel, The Sparrows, The Counting Lesson, Mrs. Pussy's Dinner, How the Corn Grew, The Mill, Making Bread, Making Butter, Santa Claus.