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¿Qué se dice hoy de la escuela? ¿Qué se le pide? ¿Qué diagnósticos se hacen sobre su vigencia? Cuando se habla de la escuela, surgen una serie de lugares comunes, a veces contradictorios: "la escuela ya no puede"; "los pibes ya no son lo que eran, los docentes tampoco"; "está desactualizada"; "no responde a las necesidades de los chicos"; en suma... quedó en el pasado. Desde otras perspectivas, se apela a un salto al futuro: "cuando se produzca una reforma"; "cuando se incorporen las nuevas tecnologías"... funcionará bien. La escuela es una institución especial entre las...

In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch, a case with its roots in old evil, and old evil is private detective Charlie Parker's speciality. But Parker is about to make a descent into the abyss, a confrontation with dark forces that threaten all that Parker holds dear: his lover, his unborn child, even his soul... For in a prison cell, a fanatical preacher is about to take his revenge on Charlie Parker, its instruments the very men that...

Parents want to be supportive of math education. But they often feel frustration when they don't recognize the kind of instruction their children are getting and can't help them at home. The best way to guide parents toward an understanding of how their kids are learning is by engaging them in the very same mathematics students are experiencing at school. With the Supporting School Mathematics series, you'll find six comprehensive workshop modules for effectively engaging with parents or any stakeholder in mathematics education. Helping with Math at Home: More Ideas for Parents is designed to ...

Magistral y cautivadora, sabia y compasiva, poderosa y conmovedora... Éstos son los adjetivos que la prensa alemana ha dedicado a la escritura de Clemens Meyer, uno de los autores más valiosos de la joven literatura germana. Buena prueba de su solidez narrativa es esta colección de quince relatos "La noche, las luces" , distinguida con el Premio de la Feria del Libro de Leipzig en 2008. La profesora Ina Hartwig, miembro del jurado, destacó su elegancia lingüística y dijo que «es un libro que retrata las esperanzas humanas pintadas en un fondo de radical imposibilidad de cumplirse».