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In The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children, Harvard economist Ronald Ferguson, named in a New York Times profile as the foremost expert on the US educational "achievement gap," along with award-winning journalist Tatsha Robertson, reveal an intriguing blueprint for helping children from all types of backgrounds become successful adults.

Honey I'm Homeschooling The Kids! - A podcast that steps into alternative education, parenting, and living a fun, fuller family life.

Despite being immensely popular - and immensely lucrative - education is grossly overrated. In this explosive book, Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity - in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee.

The All Things Breastfeeding Podcast is a program for both new and experienced mothers alike. Barbara D. Robertson, IBCLC and Barbara Demske RN, BSN "The Barbs" share their thoughts and information on All Things Breastfeeding. From basics, resources, birth to weaning, working and pumping, and everything in between, there is no breastfeeding topic off limits including current events in the breastfeeding world. Visit http://www.allthingsbreastfeeding.com for episode show notes. To learn more about Barbara D. Robertson, IBCLC and The Breastfeeding Center of Ann Arbor visit http://www.bfcaa.com

Learn the principles of identifying and addressing building defects, guided by GCR's structural engineering veteran John Davis.This series is designed for architects, construction professionals, engineers, and anyone interested in mastering structural diagnostics.Gain practical insights into diagnosing, understanding, and repairing building defects from a seasoned structural engineer with over 30 years of experience in East Anglia.This podcast is brought to you by GC Robertson (GCR). GCR are Consulting Structural & Civil Engineers with five decades of engineering experience. We provide ...

Everything Coaching - for the aspiring coach to the experienced professional coach. Thoughts, skills, tools & techniques covering the Psychology of Coaching and professional development, through to Business Growth and Working effectively from home.

Spotlighting an extraordinary career, this autobiography reviews the author’s accomplishments working and playing alongside some of Canada’s greatest writers. These humorous chronicles relate the projects he brainstormed for writer Barry Broadfoot, how he convinced eventual Nobel Prize contender Alice Munro to keep writing short stories, his early morning phone call from a former Prime Minister, and his recollection of yanking a manuscript right out of Alistair MacLeod’s own reluctant hands....

In this book, Osborne uses compelling stories from cities like New Orleans and lays out the history and possible future of public education. Ultimately, he uses his extensive research to argue that, in today's world, we should treat every public school like a charter school and grant them autonomy, accountability, diversity of school designs, and parental choice.

Offering a “CliffsNotes guide” to some of the most important literary works of our time, Benjamin Wiker, author of 10 Books That Screwed Up the World, turns his discerning eye from the great texts that have done damage to Western civilization to the great texts that could help rebuild it.

You've heard of the "Great Books"? These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. And yet these authors' bad ideas are still popular and pervasive. Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker.

From a New York Times bestselling author and George H.W. Bush's former Chief of Staff, pivotal life lessons from a leader that left a mark on people's hearts and souls. Character Matters is a reminder of the importance of character when defining true leadership. Colleagues, friends, and family...

This audiobook provides you with the keys to having an outstanding career as a school leader. The American educational system is in crisis; trends of recent years have been extraordinarily hard on educators. An entire generation of school leaders is retiring, many of them early, and the number of candidates applying to replace them is plummeting. In many districts, applications have shrunk by nearly two-thirds.

In this fascinating audiobook, Alice Pung writes about one of her deep influences - the much-loved and hugely successful John Marsden. Alice writes: 'I keep coming back to John Marsden. What makes him so fascinating to me is that as a young adult writer, he comes at it with a whole philosophy of what it means to be a teenager - it is embedded in his two schools, but also his early experiences with mental illness and hospitalisation.'