CONNECT READING provides a personalized learning plan for each student, continually developed and refined as students achieve mastery. Each student plan is created through an individualized diagnostic that evaluates skills from 7th-grade level through college-readiness, for second-language learners, international students, adult students, and traditional high-schoolers. Offered completely online, CONNECT READING can be used in conjunction with NEW WORLDS or OPENING DOORS, which provide a printed experience that teaches critical reading skills through close reading of anthologized chapters...

VOLUME 2 OF 3 The collected essays of former Green Beret Joe Cortina combine the life's knowledge of an unusually interesting man who "has seen it all," the wisdom of a learned scholar, and the red-hot angry passion of a righteous warrior who is crawling out of his skin over what has become of the country he once loved; but sadly, no longer exists. At a superficial glance, Cortina's essays ring of what some might call "hatred." But those who know Joe understand that he writes with a loving heart and in accordance with the timeless wisdom from Proverbs 8:13: "The fear of the Lord is hatred of...

VOLUME 1 OF 3 The collected essays of former Green Beret Joe Cortina combine the life's knowledge of an unusually interesting man who "has seen it all," the wisdom of a learned scholar, and the red-hot angry passion of a righteous warrior who is crawling out of his skin over what has become of the country he once loved; but sadly, no longer exists. At a superficial glance, Cortina's essays ring of what some might call "hatred." But those who know Joe understand that he writes with a loving heart and in accordance with the timeless wisdom from Proverbs 8:13: "The fear of the Lord is hatred of...

The collected essays of former Green Beret Joe Cortina combine the life's knowledge of an unusually interesting man who "has seen it all," the wisdom of a learned scholar, and the red-hot angry passion of a righteous warrior who is crawling out of his skin over what has become of the country he once loved; but sadly, no longer exists. At a superficial glance, Cortina's essays ring of what some might call "hatred." But those who know Joe understand that he writes with a loving heart and in accordance with the timeless wisdom from Proverbs 8:13: "The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride...