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"Each year, millions of high school students take their SATs. About 92 percent of colleges require these scores. The average score on the new 1600-point scale is about 1000. With the ideal score being 1200 or above, this book will teach you how to close that gap." --

CareerView is designed to help high-intermediate and advanced English language learners explore their work interests and job opportunities across many employment sectors while they develop career and academic readiness skills to achieve their short-term and long-term goals. The course can serve as the capstone level of a traditional basal English series, as a stand-alone or supplemental text for advanced, transition, and bridge classes, and as an...

"Karate Kakapo loves karate more than anything - more than kung fu, more than judo, more than taekwondo. No one at her dojo tries harder or practices more. The running kicks, the jumping kicks, the side kicks - she has mastered them all. But Karate Kakapo is at a disadvantage: kakapos can't fly, and it seems that no amount of practice can help her conquer that elusive flying kick. Karate Kakapo comes to discover that sometimes coming at a problem...

"WorkKeys is a job skills assessment system measuring 'real-world' skills that employers believe are critical to job success, including applied mathematics, applied technology, business writing, listening for understanding, locating information, and reading for information.