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Eight Days in an Inner City School

Author : Dan Golarz
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434350088
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Eight Days in an Inner City School written by Dan Golarz and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written primarily in an authentic dialogue style. It fearlessly describes the consequences of the failure to appropriately prepare a student to become an inner-city teacher. While doing so, the book also exposes a system that has been slammed to the ground by policies, practices, and court decisions that protect the rights of everyone except those who teach and those who desire to learn, but leave these dedicated individuals constantly vulnerable to the violence, anger, hostility, and hopelessness that seem to be a hallmark of so many of our inner-city schools. As this young teacher closes the classroom door and stands alone, a stark picture emerges, a picture that, for the reader, will provoke anger, occasional outrage, and most certainly controversy. At the heart of this story, the author reconstructs, sometimes minute-by-minute, the events and interactions that combine to compel him to leave this first teaching assignment abruptly with a profound sense of confusion, self-doubt, and betrayal. Not limited to the classroom, this tale includes interludes that are informative, occasionally humorous, and sometimes amazingly frank. But what becomes obvious is that the recounting of this experience reveals an open wound and is a plea to the reader to recognize deep pain and justifiable anger. In so doing, it reflects the same quandary and frustrations that continue to be felt by millions of teachers and other educators who are frequently and severely criticized by those who simply do not understand why students and educators trapped in this environment so frequently fail to thrive and succeed and finally choose to leave.

Taking Our Place

Author : John Cleverley
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743320914
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Taking Our Place written by John Cleverley and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Our Place tells the story of Aboriginal education and the Koori Centre at the University of Sydney. Within its short history, the university has embodied both the virtues and vices of Australia's public attitudes to Indigenous people. The university's early teaching and research focused on Aboriginal people as ethnographical specimens, a race frozen in time. This is the first account of struggles and outcomes arising from the engagement of Indigenous people with a tertiary institution in Australia.

Death at an Early Age

Author : Jonathan Kozol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Death at an Early Age written by Jonathan Kozol and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Environmental Policy and Public Health

Author : William N. Rom
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118095669
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Policy and Public Health written by William N. Rom and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides an overview of the major environmental policy issues, past and present, and explains the interplay among law, science, and advocacy as related to environmental policymaking in the United States and abroad. Environmental Policy and Public Health examines the main sources of pollution and threats to environmental integrity and explores the consequences of pollution on the environment and the population. Throughout the book, noted environmental policy expert William N. Rom explains the legal basis for environmental action, beginning with the Clean Air Act, the Wilderness Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, and international treaties. In addition to providing information about existing laws, the author presents potential policy alternatives that offer real-world solutions. Comprehensive in scope, the book incorporates developments in law, economics, global warming, and air pollution. Environmental Policy and Public Health covers these topics and also puts an emphasis on wilderness protection. An important focus of the book is an assessment of the role of policy analysis in the formation and implementation of national and local environmental policy. Companion Web site: www.josseybass.com/go/rom

Dancing with Broken Bones : Portraits of Death and Dying among Inner-City Poor

Author : School of Medicine University of Missouri-Kansas City David Wendell Moller Director of Medical Humanities
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199759804
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Dancing with Broken Bones : Portraits of Death and Dying among Inner-City Poor written by School of Medicine University of Missouri-Kansas City David Wendell Moller Director of Medical Humanities and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003-10-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing with Broken Bones provides a chilling portrait of what it is like to die while living in urban poverty. Via interviews with patients and their families as well as powerful photographs, the author demonstrates that a complex array of factors shape the experience of dying poor in the inner city: mistrust of physicians; inadequate communication among providers, patients, and families; a sense of alienation within the bureaucratic maze of the public hospital system; and indignities in care. By demystifying the stereotypes surrounding poverty, the book illuminates how faith and an unassailable spirit provide strength and courage throughout the end of life experience. Dancing with Broken Bones is a rallying call for compassionate individuals everywhere to understand and respond to the needs of the especially vulnerable people who comprise the world of inner-city dying poor.

The Tact of Teaching

Author : Max van Manen
Publisher : Left Coast Press
ISBN 13 : 1629584193
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book The Tact of Teaching written by Max van Manen and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Tact of Teaching bestselling author Max van Manen offers teachers at every stage an original and inspiring interpretation of the notion of pedagogy, one that searches for its roots in the experience of in loco parentis. Using dozens of anecdotes and scenes taken directly from life in classrooms, including many from the often-neglected domain of high school, The Tact of Teaching explicates the meaning of pedagogical moments, the conditions of pedagogy, the relation between pedagogy and politics, the nature of pedagogical experience, and the practical forms of pedagogical understanding. The author: -Presents experiential analysis of the relation between pedagogical reflection and action -Explores how pedagogical tact manifests itself, what tact accomplishes, and how tact does what it does -Speaks of hope and humane practice in an era of schooling often given over to mindless technocracy or fashionable despair

To Miss with Love

Author : Katharine Birbalsingh
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141960868
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book To Miss with Love written by Katharine Birbalsingh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the whistle-blowing teacher behind the headlines: one inspirational teacher, one extraordinary year, hope and heartbreak on the front lines of an inner-city school, To Miss With Love by Katharine Birbalsingh is the remarkable and eye opening exposé of our education system. A third of teachers leave within their first term on the job. This one wouldn't quit for all the world. Meet Furious - sixteen, handsome and completely out of control. Nothing frightens him and no one can get through to him. Now meet Munchkin - a sweet kid with glasses who's an easy target and needs protecting. Then there's Seething and Deranged, two girls who are brimming with bad attitude; Fifty and Cent, who act like gangsters but are afraid of getting beaten up; and Stoic, a brilliant young mind struggling to survive. In the midst of them all, there is a bodyguard and bouncer, a counsellor and confidante, a young woman whose job it is to motivate and inspire them and somehow keep them out of trouble: their teacher. None will make it through the year unscathed. Some may not even make it at all... Spanning a year of shocking truths and hard-won victories, of fights and phone-thefts, teenage pregnancies and the dreaded OFSTED report, this is the remarkable diary of an inner-city school teacher. Revealing the extraordinary chaos, mismanagement and wrong-thinking that plague our education system, it is a funny, surprising and sometimes heartbreaking journey from the frontlines of the classroom to the heart of modern Britain. 'The constant frustration, the struggle to hold on to your ideals in the face of a broken system - this book is the story of contemporary state education. It's both heart-breaking and inspiring' Toby Young 'Everyone should read this book and do a bit of re-thinking. Straight from the chalk-face - a book which explains why our kids have been failed by State Education' Rod Liddle 'The teacher who laid bare the chaos in the education systems. . . by delivering some brutal home truths. . . articulate and inspirational' Daily Mail 'Charismatic. . . .electrifying. . . This remarkable woman has neatly identified the problem with education' The Times Katharine Birbalsingh is Britain's most outspoken and controversial teacher. Educated at a comprehensive school, she earned a degree in philosophy and modern languages at Oxford university and has taught for over a decade in inner-city schools. To Miss with Love was for several years an anonymous blog that exposed the reality of inner-city schools and the problems with the education system. She now writes regularly for the Telegraph and has given evidence at the Commons select committee for education. Her views have sparked a national debate. www.katharinebirbalsingh.com

A Hope in the Unseen

Author : Ron Suskind
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307763080
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book A Hope in the Unseen written by Ron Suskind and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring, true coming-of-age story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair. In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate was well into double digits and just 80 students out of more than 1,350 boasted an average of B or better. At Ballou, Cedric had almost no friends. He ate lunch in a classroom most days, plowing through the extra work he asked for, knowing that he was really competing with kids from other, harder schools. Cedric Jennings’s driving ambition—which was fully supported by his forceful mother—was to attend a top college. In September 1995, after years of near superhuman dedication, he realized that ambition when he began as a freshman at Brown University. But he didn't leave his struggles behind. He found himself unprepared for college: he struggled to master classwork and fit in with the white upper-class students. Having traveled too far to turn back, Cedric was left to rely on his intelligence and his determination to maintain hope in the unseen—a future of acceptance and reward. In this updated edition, A Hope in the Unseen chronicles Cedric’s odyssey during his last two years of high school, follows him through his difficult first year at Brown, and tells the story of his subsequent successes in college and the world of work. Eye-opening, sometimes humorous, and often deeply moving, A Hope in the Unseen weaves a crucial new thread into the rich and ongoing narrative of the American experience.

Working for Kids

Author : James H. Lytle
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1607090570
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Working for Kids written by James H. Lytle and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the current discourse on improving school leadership, and particularly the performance of principals, is misguided. There is much too much emphasis on evaluation and standards as determined by policy makers and professors and not nearly enough attention to how one provides performance-driven leadership in the context of day-to-day practice. As an administrator, academic, consultant and researcher, Lytle has traveled widely in the school leadership province. This book draws on his career as a school administrator and his experience teaching leadership at the graduate level. The author uses personal stories to address such questions as: How does one learn to lead? How does one become a leader? How does one teach others to lead? What does it mean to lead for learning?

A Plan for Evaluating the District of Columbia's Public Schools

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309209390
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book A Plan for Evaluating the District of Columbia's Public Schools written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The District of Columbia (DC) has struggled for decades to improve its public education system. In 2007 the DC government made a bold change in the way it governs public education with the goal of shaking up the system and bringing new energy to efforts to improve outcomes for students. The Public Education Reform Amendment Act (PERAA) shifted control of the city's public schools from an elected school board to the mayor, developed a new state department of education, created the position of chancellor, and made other significant management changes. A Plan for Evaluating the District of Columbia's Public Schools offers a framework for evaluating the effects of PERAA on DC's public schools. The book recommends an evaluation program that includes a systematic yearly public reporting of key data as well as in-depth studies of high-priority issues including: quality of teachers, principals, and other personnel; quality of classroom teaching and learning; capacity to serve vulnerable children and youth; promotion of family and community engagement; and quality and equity of operations, management, and facilities. As part of the evaluation program, the Mayor's Office should produce an annual report to the city on the status of the public schools, including an analysis of trends and all the underlying data. A Plan for Evaluating the District of Columbia's Public Schools suggests that D.C. engage local universities, philanthropic organizations, and other institutions to develop and sustain an infrastructure for ongoing research and evaluation of its public schools. Any effective evaluation program must be independent of school and city leaders and responsive to the needs of all stakeholders. Additionally, its research should meet the highest standards for technical quality.

Reading Comprehension Research and Testing in the U.S.

Author : Arlette Ingram Willis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135610347
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Reading Comprehension Research and Testing in the U.S. written by Arlette Ingram Willis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges traditional, sanctioned, and official histories of reading comprehension by examining how ideological and cultural hegemony work to reproduce dominant ideologies through education in general and reading comprehension research and testing specifically. Willis analyzes the ideological and cultural foundations that underpin concepts, theories, research, tests, and interpretations, and connects these to the broader social and political contexts within U.S. history in which reading comprehension research and testing have evolved. The reconstruction of a history of reading comprehension research and testing in this way demystifies past and current assumptions about the interconnections among researchers, reading comprehension research, and standardized reading comprehension tests. A promising vision of the future of reading comprehension research and testing emerges–one that is more complex, multidimensional, inclusive, and socially just. Reading Comprehension Research and Testing in the U.S. aims to revolutionize how reading comprehension is conceived, theorized, tested, and interpreted for all children. This is a critically relevant volume for educational researchers, teacher educators, school administrators, teachers, policy makers, and all those concerned with school literacy and educational equity.

Children and Gun Violence

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Children and Gun Violence written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Children's Perceptions of Learning with Trainee Teachers

Author : Hilary Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134605404
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Children's Perceptions of Learning with Trainee Teachers written by Hilary Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in that it focuses on pupils' perceptions of their learning with trainee teachers in primary schools Includes chapter summaries giving suggestions for teaching strategies, discussions with mentors and tutors and further reading Includes examples of successful new teaching approaches introduced by trainees and case-studies on religion, gender and ethnicity Enables trainee teachers to make links between theory, research and practice Relevant to all trainee teachers at primary level concerned to develop good practice

Classroom Confidential

Author : Laurel J. Schmidt
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Classroom Confidential written by Laurel J. Schmidt and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurel Schmidt's gone on assignment, interviewing master educators, observing their classrooms, and uncovering the twelve secrets that all stand-out teachers share. The result, Classroom Confidential, is the ultimate paperback mentor for novices and veterans alike, an across-the-curriculum guidebook with the scoop on how best practices can make you a great teacher. Brimming with practical instructional strategies, tips on classroom management, and hundreds of leads on teaching resources, all in a read-it-today-do-it-tomorrow format, Classroom Confidentialdishes the goods on every aspect of successful teaching, including: using multiple intelligences to master content standards authentic reading and writing activities inquiry-based instruction teaching for social justice reaching special-needs students community as classroom hands-on social studies projects integrating the arts into academics. Schmidt gives you everything you need to double or triple your instructional capabilities, including a step-by-step plan to improve parent-teacher communication, guidelines for avoiding burnout, and a do-it-yourself kit for creating a culture of success in your classroom. Go behind closed doors and into the minds of outstanding educators to discover why the inside story about their success is so important to yours. Read Classroom Confidentialand be in the know about what makes a great teacher.

American Childhoods

Author : Joseph E. Illick
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812202325
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book American Childhoods written by Joseph E. Illick and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The experiences of children in America have long been a source of scholarly fascination and general interest. In American Childhoods, Joseph Illick brings together his own extensive research and a synthesis of literature from a range of disciplines to present the first comprehensive cross-cultural history of childhood in America. Beginning with American Indians, European settlers, and African slaves and their differing perceptions of how children should be raised, American Childhoods moves to the nineteenth century and the rise of industrialization to introduce the offspring of the emerging urban middle and working classes. Illick reveals that while rural and working-class children continued to toil from an early age, as they had in the colonial period, childhood among the urban middle class became recognized as a distinct phase of life, with a continuing emphasis on gender differences. Illick then discusses how the public school system was created in the nineteenth century to assimilate immigrants and discipline all children, and observes its major role in age-grouping children as well as drawing working-class youngsters from factories to classrooms. At the same time, such social problems as juvenile delinquency were confronted by private charities and, ultimately, by the state. Concluding his sweeping study, the author presents the progeny of suburban, inner-city, and rural Americans in the twentieth century, highlighting the growing disparity of opportunities available to children of decaying cities and the booming suburbs. Consistently making connections between economics, psychology, commerce, sociology, and anthropology, American Childhoods is rich with insight into the elusive world of children. Grounded firmly in social and cultural history and written in lucid, accessible prose, the book demonstrates how children's experiences have varied dramatically through time and across space, and how the idea of childhood has meant vastly different things to different groups in American society.

Exploring the Benefit of Creative Arts Therapies for Children, Adolescents, and Adults

Author : Silton, Nava R.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668478579
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Benefit of Creative Arts Therapies for Children, Adolescents, and Adults written by Silton, Nava R. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, there has been growing interest in understanding the benefits of creative therapies for people from all kinds of backgrounds. These therapies are beneficial for reducing anxiety, stress, and depressive symptoms and have the potential to enhance the outcomes of special populations of individuals in vulnerable situations. Further study on the future directions as well as challenges associated with these therapies is required to ensure they are utilized appropriately. Exploring the Benefit of Creative Arts Therapies for Children, Adolescents, and Adults discusses the benefits of creative arts therapies for children, adolescents, and adults. The book also looks individually and collectively at the boon of art therapy, dance therapy, music, and drama therapy for improving outcomes for typically developing individuals and for vulnerable populations. Covering key topics such as dance, anxiety, and trauma, this premier reference source is ideal for therapists, social workers, psychologists, mental health counselors, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.

World Class

Author : Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684825228
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book World Class written by Rosabeth Moss Kanter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-01-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how to turn globalization into opportunity--to grow new businesses, create new jobs, revitalize regions, and develop international cities of the future.