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Regardless of need, Paxen’s diverse library of nearly 40 print titles provides something for everyone. Our learning materials enable students to develop and master essential academic, career, and life skills, helping them pave the way to future and lasting success.
From computer literacy to critical thinking and on to career planning and preparation, Paxen’s products emphasize an outcome-based, real-world approach to learning. Our materials reflect collaboration between our instructors and instructional designers, incorporating best classroom practices that elicit top results.
As but one example, our GED Prep Xcelerator product line, developed in conjunction with Paxen’s staff and the American Council on Education (ACE), ranks as one of only three such lines to be certified for use by ACE, parent organization of the GED Tests.
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Tobacco is a drug as addictive and dangerous as it is lucrative. That’s the message behind Breathe Easy!, a comprehensive and interactive workbook that encourages adolescents to critically weigh the hazards against the appeal of smoking. Breathe Easy! reviews the long history of tobacco and examines modern physiological and societal factors that encourage its continuing use. It also provides strategies to address issues that lead to, and sustain, smoking habits.
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Business Perspectives offers insights into the inner-workings of businesses and the assumptions, choices, and decisions that drive them to success. The student consumable provides a window into essential business principles such as free enterprise, demand, and profit. A two-part simulation allows students to apply what they have learned about business operations.
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Give a little, get a lot. That’s the message behind Community Service, a consumable text that equips students with the motivation and tools to positively engage in their communities. Community Service assists students, teachers, and organizers in identifying the best uses of their skills, understanding the attributes of effective volunteers, planning community-service projects, and appreciating the responsibilities and rewards of volunteering.
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Key computing skills are a staple of many jobs, but learning the basics can be just as difficult—and as time-consuming—as mastering a foreign language. No more. Computer Literacy offers all the essentials to quickly convey complex information and programs. Detailed screen shots provide learners with easy references for everything from editing text to creating formulas.
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Active learning involves more than just simple recall of names, dates, and numbers. It means fostering a deeper understanding of information through the use of critical-thinking skills vital to the learning process. Critical Thinking helps students and emerging professionals alike connect and apply multiple types of information to their daily lives through the acquisition and development of core critical-thinking strategies.
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Pregnancy prevention involves two core choices—abstinence or birth control—framed and supported by an array of other decisions. The student consumable Decisions helps adolescents and young adults analyze personal feelings, values, and future plans through activities designed to explore the ideas of intimacy, family, and parenthood.
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Document Literacy puts fine print under the microscope by equipping learners with key strategies for decoding and comprehending a series of complex consumer, business, personal, and financial documents. Detailed callouts help deconstruct the learning and amplify core concepts, while chapter reviews enable students to check understanding.
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The strength of a business lies in its employees. Effective Employee understands that core business principle, aiding learners and emerging professionals alike in understanding and appreciating the skills and characteristics that employers seek from employees. In so doing, learners study important job-related issues such as motivation, communication, and performance.
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Now that you have the job, what do you do with it? Most positions require training before employees may begin work. Employee Training prepares students and emerging professionals for the rigors of the workplace by simulating a training experience that covers key skills such as communications and customer service.
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What do you want to be when you grow up? The answer to that relatively simple question can be quite complicated. Exploring Careers aids in such complex decision-making by helping students to recognize and realize career aspirations. Learners answer questions and complete career plans designed to engage interest and pinpoint vocational options.
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The next generation of GED® preparation materials is here. And not a moment too soon. GED Prep Xcelerator features an intense, accelerated approach to test preparation that equips learners with essential skills and strategies to succeed on the GED Tests. The Xcelerator approach features five (5) student books—one apiece in each of the GED Tests' functional areas of Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies—and five (5) accompanying Workbooks.
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To teach students, you must first reach them. That’s the idea behind GED Prep Xcelerator Instructor Edition, an all-in-one solution for educators seeking to prepare students for the GED Tests®.
Support materials for each student book and workbook lesson appear on a single page for easy reference and emphasize learning strategies that correspond to each phase of student skill development.
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Cutting-edge instruction + targeted support + ample practice opportunities = a recipe for success on the GED Mathematics Test. That’s the arithmetic behind GED Prep Xcelerator Mathematics Student Book, a comprehensive resource for learners seeking to master the areas of operations, data measurement and analysis, algebra, and geometry. Callouts, test-taking tips, and ample assessment items help cement student understanding, while a companion workbook provides additional support and practice opportunities.
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From the abacus to the micro-processor, we’ve evolved in our understanding of, and approach to, mathematics. Such sentiment extends to the next generation of GED preparatory materials—the GED Prep Xcelerator Mathematics Workbook. But rather than take our word for it, simply run the numbers: A total of 38 micro-lessons, each four pages in length, and more than 850 practice items and innumerable callouts and support strategies—all designed to help students bolster and refine their arithmetic skills.
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Like a good detective, a good reader first must examine and then decode clues before arriving at a logical conclusion. Similarly, the GED Prep Xcelerator Reading Student Book equips learners with the tools to decipher the secrets of the GED Language Arts/Reading Test. Accelerated lessons that target the functional areas of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama provide comprehensive coverage of and practice in analyzing various forms of writing.
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The more you read, the more you’ll learn. That’s the idea behind the GED Prep Xcelerator Reading Workbook, which extends skill instruction from the related GED Prep Xcelerator Reading Student Book through the use of diverse works of literature and enhanced instruction and support—all of which help build analytical reading skills for use on the GED Language Arts/Reading Test.
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From the depths of Earth’s core to the far reaches of space, GED Prep Xcelerator Science Student Book offers comprehensive content and universal support in skills acquisition and development, all designed to steel students for the rigors of the GED Science Test. An array of callouts, test-taking tips, and ample assessment items help amplify the learning and cement student understanding. A companion workbook provides additional support and practice opportunities.
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You can’t get enough of a good thing. That’s the idea behind GED Prep Xcelerator Science Workbook, a companion consumable that provides the same scientifically sound content and emphasis on key reading and thinking skills as its accompanying student edition. Proven instruction, targeted callouts and test-taking tips, and abundant assessment items provide learners with ample opportunities for success on the GED Science Test.
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Passages. Documents. Maps. Charts. Graphs. Timelines. You name it, and GED Prep Xcelerator Social Studies Student Book has it—in the form of accelerated and targeted lessons that provide comprehensive coverage of and preparation for the GED Social Studies Test. A companion workbook offers an array of enhanced instruction and practice opportunities.
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Some is good. More is better. That's the philosophy behind GED Prep Xcelerator Social Studies Workbook, which offers the same types of content—detailed passages, rich graphics, and questions specific to the GED Social Studies Test—as the companion student book, only with more of it. Enhanced instruction and practice items provide learners with additional opportunities for success.
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