San Antonio College Library

"How much credit do parents deserve when their children turn out well? How much blame when they turn out badly? This book explodes some of our deepest beliefs about children and parents and gives us something radically new to put in their place. With eloquence and wit, Judith Harris explains why parents have little power to determine the sort of people their children become. It is what children experience outside the home, in the company of their...

Every once in a while a book presents itself in such a way that it captures the essence of society for a particular segment of culture at a given point in time. That is the case with About Children - a documentary in print offering a multifaceted portrait of today's children. About Children features insightful essays from renowned authorities on over 40 key facets of life for children in America. This tabloid-formatted book will be hardcover, and...

"Picture book adaptation of US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's iconic poem, Remember"--

The activities that transpire within the classroom either help or hinder students' learning. Any meaningful discussion of educational reform, therefore, must focus explicitly and directly on the classroom and on the teaching and learning that occurs within it. This book presents a case for the development of classrooms in which students are encouraged to construct deep understandings of important concepts. Jacqueline Grennon Brooks and Martin G. Brooks...

Meaningful Differences establishes a scientifically substantiated link between children's early family experience and their later intellectual growth - a link that exists regardless of a child's race. This compelling story describes the authors' years of research as they search for the roots of intellectual disparity. Hart and Risley examined the daily lives of 1- and 2-year-old children in typical American families. They found staggering contrasts...

"Once, long ago, Miss Rumphius was a little girl named Alice who lived in a city by the sea. When she grew up, she wanted to travel and see faraway places and then come home to live beside the sea, just as her grandfather had. But there was one thing more she had to do. "What is that?" Alice asked her grandfather. "You must do something to make the world more beautiful," he told her. Little Alice grew up to become Miss Rumphius, and true to her promise...

This book offers a new view of the nation's social well-being by presenting reliable information on such factors as the accessibility of health care and health insurance coverage, the quality of education, the adequacy of housing and family income, drug abuse, poverty among the elderly or children, life expectancy and infant mortality, crime, and on how America compares with other industrial countries in these and other significant areas.