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IT Innovators: Interview with Chris Burns, Teacher and LAN Administrator Castro Valley HS

Vintage Plastic & Mylar Industry Manufacturing Films DVD: DuPont, General Electric and other Plastics Material Production Movies $12.99 Remember the post-WWII buzz about the great new products being produced out of the strange but useful materials called plastic, Mylar and Plexiglas? This DVD has six fantastic old films from the 1940s and 50s that showcase the production, testing and usefulness of these futuristic materials. You can’t find this special compilation of rare filmstrips anywhere else! Table Of Contents: (1) Plastics (…

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns $8.48 ….

Project Management for Business, Engineering, and Technology, Third Edition $50.21 Project Management for Business, Engineering and Technology, 3rd edition is a direct response to the ever-increasing need for better project management. First covering the essential background, from origins and philosophy to methodology, the main bulk of the book is dedicated to the concepts and techniques of practical application, including project initiation and proposals, scope and task definit…

Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can’t Read, Write, or Add $6.95 Nowhere has the flight from quality plaguing American life these days been more obvious than in our primary and secondary schools — on the whole, the graduates seem less well-read and less well-spoken, less knowledgeable and less able to compute. In this book, Charles Sykes asks why, and lays most of the blame at the feet of the trainers of teachers, the writers of textbooks and the educati…