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Book Synopsis Of Greater Value a Story of Baltimore’S Kids by : J.J. Ritch
Download or read book Of Greater Value a Story of Baltimore’S Kids written by J.J. Ritch and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about inner-city African American Kids from Baltimore who deal with peer pressure, conflict, and self control.
Download or read book City on the Line written by Andrew Kleine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In City on the Line, former Baltimore budget director Andrew Kleine asks why the way government does its most important job – deciding how to spend taxpayer dollars – hasn’t changed in hundreds of years. Parts memoir, manifesto, and manual, this book tells the story of Baltimore’s radical departure from traditional line item budgeting to a focus on outcomes like better schools, safer streets, and stronger neighborhoods—during one of the most tumultuous decades in the city’s history. Elected officials, executives, and citizens alike will be equipped to transform budgets in their city, state, or any other mission-driven organization.
Book Synopsis "Brown" in Baltimore by : Howell S. Baum
Download or read book "Brown" in Baltimore written by Howell S. Baum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal called the "American Dilemma." Immediately after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the city's liberal school board voted to desegregate and adopted a free choice policy that made integration voluntary. Baltimore's school desegregation proceeded peacefully, without the resistance or violence that occurred elsewhere. However, few whites chose to attend school with blacks, and after a few years of modest desegregation, schools resegregated and became increasingly segregated. The school board never changed its policy. Black leaders had urged the board to adopt free choice and, despite the limited desegregation, continued to support the policy and never sued the board to do anything else. Baum finds that American liberalism is the key to explaining how this happened. Myrdal observed that many whites believed in equality in the abstract but considered blacks inferior and treated them unequally. School officials were classical liberals who saw the world in terms of individuals, not races. They adopted a desegregation policy that explicitly ignored students' race and asserted that all students were equal in freedom to choose schools, while their policy let whites who disliked blacks avoid integration. School officials' liberal thinking hindered them from understanding or talking about the city's history of racial segregation, continuing barriers to desegregation, and realistic change strategies. From the classroom to city hall, Baum examines how Baltimore's distinct identity as a border city between North and South shaped local conversations about the national conflict over race and equality. The city's history of wrestling with the legacy of Brown reveals Americans' preferred way of dealing with racial issues: not talking about race. This avoidance, Baum concludes, allows segregation to continue.
Book Synopsis Coming of Age in the Other America by : Stefanie DeLuca
Download or read book Coming of Age in the Other America written by Stefanie DeLuca and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research on inequality and poverty has shown that those born into low-income families, especially African Americans, still have difficulty entering the middle class, in part because of the disadvantages they experience living in more dangerous neighborhoods, going to inferior public schools, and persistent racial inequality. Coming of Age in the Other America shows that despite overwhelming odds, some disadvantaged urban youth do achieve upward mobility. Drawing from ten years of fieldwork with parents and children who resided in Baltimore public housing, sociologists Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin highlight the remarkable resiliency of some of the youth who hailed from the nation’s poorest neighborhoods and show how the right public policies might help break the cycle of disadvantage. Coming of Age in the Other America illuminates the profound effects of neighborhoods on impoverished families. The authors conducted in-depth interviews and fieldwork with 150 young adults, and found that those who had been able to move to better neighborhoods—either as part of the Moving to Opportunity program or by other means—achieved much higher rates of high school completion and college enrollment than their parents. About half the youth surveyed reported being motivated by an “identity project”—or a strong passion such as music, art, or a dream job—to finish school and build a career. Yet the authors also found troubling evidence that some of the most promising young adults often fell short of their goals and remained mired in poverty. Factors such as neighborhood violence and family trauma put these youth on expedited paths to adulthood, forcing them to shorten or end their schooling and find jobs much earlier than their middle-class counterparts. Weak labor markets and subpar postsecondary educational institutions, including exploitative for-profit trade schools and under-funded community colleges, saddle some young adults with debt and trap them in low-wage jobs. A third of the youth surveyed—particularly those who had not developed identity projects—were neither employed nor in school. To address these barriers to success, the authors recommend initiatives that help transform poor neighborhoods and provide institutional support for the identity projects that motivate youth to stay in school. They propose increased regulation of for-profit schools and increased college resources for low-income high school students. Coming of Age in the Other America presents a sensitive, nuanced account of how a generation of ambitious but underprivileged young Baltimoreans has struggled to succeed. It both challenges long-held myths about inner-city youth and shows how the process of “social reproduction”—where children end up stuck in the same place as their parents—is far from inevitable.
Book Synopsis The Colts' Baltimore by : Michael Olesker
Download or read book The Colts' Baltimore written by Michael Olesker and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third Place, General Trade Hardcover Nonfiction, 2009 New York Book Show. Bookbinders' Guild of New York. This is Michael Olesker's nostalgic reminiscence of 1958, the year the Baltimore Colts defeated the New York Giants in sudden-death overtime in a game that still grips the emotions of Baltimoreans. Olesker recaptures the city’s love affair with the Colts in a series of thoughtful and colorful stories that give voice to such notable characters as Colts players Johnny Unitas and Art Donovan, politicians Tommy D’Alesandro and Jack Pollack, entertainers Buddy Deane and Royal Parker, sportscasters Chuck Thompson and Vince Bagli, and filmmaker John Waters. The Colts’ Baltimore also traces the changing cultural landscape of the city just entering an age of revolution—a time when schools were being racially integrated, rock and roll played on the radio, and Baltimore was planning to renew the dilapidated downtown. Revealing warm ties between Baltimore and its beloved Colts, Olesker's writing makes the events of 1958 seem like only yesterday.
Book Synopsis Baltimore's Books by : Enoch Pratt Free Library
Download or read book Baltimore's Books written by Enoch Pratt Free Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Baltimore Elegance by : Elly Sienkiewicz
Download or read book Baltimore Elegance written by Elly Sienkiewicz and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you always wanted to create a Baltimore Album quilt, you'll love Elly Sienkiewicz' new collection of smaller, less-complex blocks that are perfect for your first Baltimore Album. Or, enlarge the blocks for a larger work! More than two dozen block designs are also ideal for adding elegance to accessories and home dcor, or for creating a very special child's quilt. In-depth how-tos and Elly's skill-building lessons will have you creating block after block.
Download or read book The Other Wes Moore written by Wes Moore and published by One World. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the governor of Maryland, the “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his. In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore. Wes just couldn’t shake off the unsettling coincidence, or the inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper. After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt, and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been haunting him: Who are you? How did this happen? That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that have lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes discovered that the other Wes had had a life not unlike his own: Both had had difficult childhoods, both were fatherless; they’d hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them to astonishingly different destinies. Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world.
Book Synopsis Baltimore Bulletin of Education by :
Download or read book Baltimore Bulletin of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The North Baltimore Stories by : Peter Latrobe Heyrman
Download or read book The North Baltimore Stories written by Peter Latrobe Heyrman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Twilight Zone writer, Peter Latrobe Heyrman, a twisted romp through North Baltimore and the world. This is where horror meets crooked comedy. "Heyrman writes prose the way Tiger Woods swings a golf club, with the kind of substance that most authors only dream about." Greg Kihn, author of the Bram Stoker-nominated novel, "Horror Show."
Book Synopsis The Baltimore Book by : Elizabeth Fee
Download or read book The Baltimore Book written by Elizabeth Fee and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1993-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baltimore has a long, colorful history that traditionally has been focused on famous men, social elites, and patriotic events. The Baltimore Book is both a history of "the other Baltimore" and a tour guide to places in the city that are important to labor, African American, and women's history. The book grew out of a popular local bus tour conducted by public historians, the People's History Tour of Baltimore, that began in 1982. This book records and adds sites to that tour; provides maps, photographs, and contemporary documents; and includes interviews with some of the uncelebrated people whose experiences as Baltimoreans reflect more about the city than Francis Scott Key ever did.The tour begins at the B&O Railroad Station at Camden Yards, site of the railroad strike of 1877, moves on to Hampden-Woodbury, the mid-19th century cotton textile industry's company town, and stops on the way to visit Evergreen House and to hear the narratives of ex-slaves. We travel to Old West Baltimore, the late 19th-century center of commerce and culture for the African American community; Fells Point; Sparrows Point; the suburbs; Federal Hill; and Baltimore's "renaissance" at Harborplace. Interviews with community activists, civil rights workers, Catholic Workers, and labor union organizers bring color and passion to this historical tour. Specific labor struggles, class and race relations, and the contributions of women to Baltimore's development are emphasized at each stop. Author note: Elizabeth Fee is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management of The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.Linda Shopes is Associate Historian at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.Linda Zeidman is Professor of History and Economics at Essex Community College.
Book Synopsis ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTINS OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE by : Baltimore (Md.)
Download or read book ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTINS OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE written by Baltimore (Md.) and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Baltimore and Ohio Employes Magazine by :
Download or read book Baltimore and Ohio Employes Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Baltimore Haunting by : Terrie Ann Huffman
Download or read book Baltimore Haunting written by Terrie Ann Huffman and published by . This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carolyn and Sonny are thrilled and excited to be moving into their first townhouse with their three kids in South Baltimore during the early 1970s. Their dreams take a drastic turn when strange phenomena begin to happen in the home. The family experiences harrowing, unexplained noises, moving objects and ghostly sightings. Through a series of disturbing events, communication is established with the source of the haunting and the family learns they must move from the house for their own safety.About the Author: Terrie Ann Huffman lives in Baltimore, Maryland. This is her first book, which is based on her own family's experience when she was a child.Publisher's Web site: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/BaltimoreHaunting.html
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Human Resources. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :348 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (327 download)
Book Synopsis Oversight of Biomedical and Behavioral Research in the United States, 1977: March 31 and April 1, 1977 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Human Resources. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research
Download or read book Oversight of Biomedical and Behavioral Research in the United States, 1977: March 31 and April 1, 1977 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Human Resources. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Human Resources. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :344 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Oversight of Biomedical and Behavioral Research in the United States, 1977 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Human Resources. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research
Download or read book Oversight of Biomedical and Behavioral Research in the United States, 1977 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Human Resources. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baltimore and Ohio Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
