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The Battle for Room 314

Author : Ed Boland
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 145556060X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Battle for Room 314 written by Ed Boland and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this insightfully honest and moving memoir about the realities of teaching in an inner-city school, Ed Boland "smashes the dangerous myth of the hero-teacher [and] shows us how high the stakes are for our most vulnerable students" (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black). In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly collided headlong with the appalling reality of his students' lives and a hobbled education system unable to help them. Freddy runs a drug ring for his incarcerated brother; Nee-cole is homeschooled on the subway by her brilliant homeless mother; Byron's Ivy League dream is dashed because he is undocumented. In the end, Boland isn't hoisted on his students' shoulders and no one passes AP anything. This is no urban fairy tale of at-risk kids saved by a Hollywood hero, but a searing indictment of schools that claim to be progressive but still fail their students. Told with compassion, humor, and a keen eye, Boland's story is sure to ignite debate about the future of American education and attempts to reform it.

Admissions

Author : Kendra James
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538753499
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Admissions written by Kendra James and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE “[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she — or any Black student, or all Black students — would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. . . The best depiction of elite whiteness I’ve read.”—New York Times A Most Anticipated Book by Vogue.com · Parade · Town & Country · Nylon ·New York Post · Lit Hub · BookRiot · Electric Literature · Glamour · Marie Claire · Publishers Weekly · Bustle · Fodor's Travel· Business Insider · Pop Sugar · InsideHook · SheReads Early on in Kendra James’ professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep schools, she persuaded students and families to embark on the same perilous journey she herself had made—to attend cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Her new job forced her to reflect on her own elite education experience, and to realize how disillusioned she had become with America’s inequitable system. In ADMISSIONS, Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft, chronicling clashes with her lily-white roommate, how she had to unlearn the respectability politics she'd been raised with, and the fall-out from a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused Black and Latinx students of being responsible for segregation of campus. Through these stories, some troubling, others hilarious, she deconstructs the lies and half-truths she herself would later tell as an admissions professional, in addition to the myths about boarding schools perpetuated by popular culture. With its combination of incisive social critique and uproarious depictions of elite nonsense, ADMISSIONS will resonate with anyone who has ever been The Only One in a room, dealt with racial microaggressions, or even just suffered from an extreme case of homesickness.

The Education of an Idealist

Author : Samantha Power
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062820710
Total Pages : 805 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book The Education of an Idealist written by Samantha Power and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER An intimate, powerful, and galvanizing memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner, human rights advocate, and former US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power. Named one of the best books of the year: The New York Times • National Public Radio • Time • The Economist • The Washington Post • Vanity Fair • Christian Science Monitor • Publishers Weekly • Audible “Her highly personal and reflective memoir . . . is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world.”—President Barack Obama Includes an updated afterword Tracing her distinctly American journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official, Samantha Power’s acclaimed memoir is a unique blend of suspenseful storytelling, vivid character portraits, and shrewd political insight. After her critiques of US foreign policy caught the eye of Senator Barack Obama, he invited her to work with him on Capitol Hill and then on his presidential campaign. When Obama won the presidency, Power went from being an activist outsider to serving as his human rights adviser and, in 2013, becoming the youngest-ever US Ambassador to the United Nations. Power transports us from her childhood in Dublin to the streets of war-torn Bosnia to the White House Situation Room and the world of high-stakes diplomacy, offering a compelling and deeply honest look at navigating the halls of power while trying to put one’s ideals into practice. Along the way, she lays bare the searing battles and defining moments of her life, shows how she juggled the demands of a 24/7 national security job with raising two young children, and makes the case for how we each can advance the cause of human dignity. This is an unforgettable account of the power of idealism—and of one person’s fierce determination to make a difference. “This is a wonderful book. […] The interweaving of Power’s personal story, family story, diplomatic history and moral arguments is executed seamlessly and with unblinking honesty.”—THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, The New York Times Book Review “Truly engrossing…A pleasure to read.”—RACHEL MADDOW “A beautiful memoir about the times we’re living in and the questions we must ask ourselves…I honestly couldn’t put it down.” —CHERYL STRAYED, author of Wild “Power’s compelling memoir provides critically important insights we should all understand as we face some of the most vexing issues of our time.” —BRYAN STEVENSON, author of Just Mercy

Still Surprised

Author : Warren Bennis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470432381
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Still Surprised written by Warren Bennis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate look at the founding father of the modern leadership movement Warren Bennis is an acclaimed American scholar, successful organizational consultant and author, and an expert in the field of leadership. His much awaited memoir is filled with insights about the successes and failures from his long and storied life and career. Bennis' life and career have traversed eight decades of first-hand experience with tumultuous episodes of recent history-from Jewish child in a gentile town in the 30's, a young army recruit in the Battle of the Bulge to a college student in the one of the first progressive precursors to the civil rights movement to a patient undergoing daily psychoanalysis for five years, and later a university provost during the Vietnam protests. Reveals the triumphs and struggles of the man who is considered the pioneer in the contemporary field of leadership studies Bennis is the author of 27 books including the bestseller On Becoming a Leader This is first book to examine the extraordinary life of Warren Bennis by the man himself.

Moving

Author : Andy Hargreaves
Publisher : Solution Tree
ISBN 13 : 9781951075019
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Moving written by Andy Hargreaves and published by Solution Tree. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Moving: A Memoir of Education and Social Mobility author Andy Hargreaves tells the story of his working-class roots, his education, and his experiences with social mobility. Beginning with his youth in the small working-class town of Accrington in Northern England and ending with his experiences at University, the author relates his journey through the education system and all that education has done for him. The author describes what it means to be working-class, his personal successes and failures, and the ways that education allowed him to lift himself out of poverty. However, he also describes the ways that many others were left behind and never given the chance to be socially mobile. The author believes that there are lessons that can be learned from his experience of social mobility and that these lessons can be applied to society at large. In particular, educators can use these lessons to encourage and support students' social mobility and increase the number of students who can become socially mobile. These lessons can also be used to create schools that are kinder to working-class students and to students who are socially mobile. Readers will connect to the engaging, heart-felt story of the author's life and, through it, learn about the reality of social mobility, how it is experienced, and how it can be supported"--

An Educational Journey to Deanship

Author : Terence Hicks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761872639
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book An Educational Journey to Deanship written by Terence Hicks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Educational Journey to Deanship: A Memoir explores and highlights achievements and stories of success throughout the author's academic and administrative experiences. Specifically, this book includes photographs and personal narratives from early educational experiences to deanship. The information presented in this memoir will serve to provide role modeling, lessons of success, mentorship, and hope for other persons who aspire to become an academic dean.

Recollections Bitter and Sweet

Author : Dr. June M. Smith
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 147722386X
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book Recollections Bitter and Sweet written by Dr. June M. Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a chronicle of the author's career as a public school administrator. The book provides biographical information about the author, her early desire to become a teacher, and her bittersweet years as an assistant principal and principal. The author concentrates on the stories of the children she met and worked with during her 21-year career as a school administrator. The stories of the children (whose names have been changed to protect individual privacy) are at times funny, poignant, sad, and even tragic. The author had the responsibility of making many decisions about children, including their placement, their academic performance, consequences for their inappropriate behavior, and about delicate issues that children brought from home to school. The author considers her book to be a labor of love that she wishes to share with school administrators, teachers, counselors, parents, students, and any other groups or individuals who are interested in helping young people to reach their maximum potential.

The Education of Eva Moskowitz

Author : Eva S. Moskowitz
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006244980X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Education of Eva Moskowitz written by Eva S. Moskowitz and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Eva Moskowitz, the outspoken founder and CEO of the charter school Success Academy, comes a frank, feisty memoir about the rough-and-tumble battles to reform America’s education system. Eva Moskowitz is a fighter with a reputation for having "sharp elbows"— if that’s a synonym for getting the job done, she’ll take it. A born and bred New Yorker, former City Councilmember, and "charter czarina," Moskowitz has taken on powerful unions and politicians to establish and grow her astonishingly effective and popular charter school program in four of the city’s five boroughs. In this unabashedly candid memoir, Moskowitz tells of how she became a forward-thinking education entrepreneur and her fight to establish nearly three dozen schools—activism that has made her into one of the most polarizing figures in New York City and beyond. Now, having established a remarkable, even unprecedented, track record for guiding the city’s most disadvantaged children to high academic performance, Moskowitz addresses the battles she has won and lost, writing candidly about the people who seek to undermine her work—most notably New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio—and celebrating the powerful allies who have aided her cause, including former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor Andrew Cuomo. Moskowitz’s insightful memoir is a deeply felt personal story and an impassioned call to action that bluntly identifies failing policies and the alarmingly powerful forces arrayed against improving an education system that is both deeply dysfunctional and prejudiced. The Education of Eva Moskowitz is sure to galvanize supporters, enrage her opponents, generate headlines, and urgently impact the national conversation on education.

An Academic Life

Author : Hanna Holborn Gray
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691179182
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book An Academic Life written by Hanna Holborn Gray and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American university Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler's Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating to New Haven, where her father was a professor at Yale University. She has studied and taught at some of the world's most prestigious universities. She was the first woman to serve as provost of Yale. In 1978, she became the first woman president of a major research university when she was appointed to lead the University of Chicago, a position she held for fifteen years. In 1991, Gray was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in recognition of her extraordinary contributions to education. An Academic Life is a candid self-portrait by one of academia's most respected trailblazers. Gray describes what it was like to grow up as a child of refugee parents, and reflects on the changing status of women in the academic world. She discusses the migration of intellectuals from Nazi-held Europe and the transformative role these exiles played in American higher education—and how the émigré experience in America transformed their own lives and work. She sheds light on the character of university communities, how they are structured and administered, and the balance they seek between tradition and innovation, teaching and research, and undergraduate and professional learning. An Academic Life speaks to the fundamental issues of purpose, academic freedom, and governance that arise time and again in higher education, and that pose sharp challenges to the independence and scholarly integrity of each new generation.

The Thirteenth Man

Author : Terrel Howard Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Thirteenth Man written by Terrel Howard Bell and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former U.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Bell's successful fight to save the Department of Education has won him accolades from the nation's educators. Here he offers insight on Reagan's key players and a fresh perspective on the Reagan revolution.

A Memoir of an Educational Biographer

Author : Gerald L. Gutek
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book A Memoir of an Educational Biographer written by Gerald L. Gutek and published by IAP. This book was released on 2024-09-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his interdisciplinary memoir, Gerald Gutek applies history and philosophy of education to educational biography. The author was guided by his focusing goals of exploring his path to becoming an educational biographer and working generalizations with his colleagues in the field. Gutek’s narrative begins with the author’s childhood experiences that inclined him to a career in education, followed by chapters on his doctoral program in the College of Education at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana; his teaching of history and philosophy and education in the School of Education at Loyola University Chicago; his research and writing of biographies of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and Joseph Neef and his textbook, Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education: a Biographical Introduction; and issues and strategies in writing about Maria Montessori. Throughout the book, Gutek analyzes concepts and applications he developed as an educational biographer such as parallel biographies, slice of life writing, reconsidering overlooked and understudied educators, and the role of place and space in telling life stories. ENDORSEMENTS: "Readers both new to educational biography or familiar with the discipline will find a valuable account of the author’s long and varied career as a biographer. From his childhood memory of listening to neighbors’ stories in his grandfather’s grocery store, to encounters with the important teachers in his life, Gutek brings his own story to life. As he recounts the influences on his personal intellectual history and the processes of his research and writing, readers gain valuable insights into the methods of an experienced educational biographer." — Larry Prochner, University of Alberta "For fifty years Gerald Gutek has been and remains one of the seminal and leading voices in the field of educational biography; thus it only makes sense for him to create something new: an intellectual memoir. From his work on Counts in 1970 to his work on Montessori (2016) and her acolytes in the US (2020)--Gutek has reliably bridged the worlds of educational history, educational biography, and philosophical foundations of education; this work cements his legacy. Gutek skillfully interweaves personal and family history with movements in educational history both formal and informal, then explains how these impacted his thinking and writing. Throughout this eminently readable memoir, Gutek also includes political and historical context without engaging in divisiveness. Scholars of life writing should give this a close reading, as Gutek sprinkles nuggets of methodological brilliance throughout the manuscript. Junior scholars would do well to read Gutek’s more substantive sections on the methods used to write each of his books; it is the academic equivalent of Master Class in textual form." — Ed Janak, University of Toledo

Educators Queering Academia

Author : sj Miller
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781433134302
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Educators Queering Academia written by sj Miller and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jen Gilbert: Foreword - Acknowledgments - sj Miller and Nelson M. Rodriguez: Introduction: The Critical Praxis of Queer Memoirs in Education - Part 1: Queer Paranoia: To Risk or Not to Risk - Adam J. Greteman: Contingent Labor, Contingently Queer - Summer Pennell: Queer Paranoia: Worrying About and Through a Queer Dissertation Study - Ryan Burns and Janet D. Johnson: Reconciling the Personal and Professional: Coming Out From the Classroom Closet - Part 2: Queered Tensions: Beyond the Academy - Sara Staley and Bethy Leonardi: Remaining Stubbornly Faithful: What Queering Academia Does to Queer Teacher-Scholars - Michael Borgstrom: Inside. Out. Queer Time in Midcareer - Kristen A. Renn: How I Met Foucault: An Intellectual Career in, Around, and Near Queer Theory - Part 3: Queering Academic Spaces: Renarrating Lives - Nelson M. Rodriguez: From Doctoral Student to Dr. Sweetie Darling: My Queer(ing) Journey in Academia - Jenny Kassen and Alicia Lapointe: Working With and Within: Weaving Queer Spaces With Cycles of Resistance - Stephanie Anne Shelton: Adopting a Queer Pedagogy as a Teaching Assistant - Michael Wenk: Sanctioning Unsanctioned Texts: The True Story of a Gay Writer - Part 4: Misrecognition: From Invisibility Into Visibility- sj Miller: (Un)becoming Trans*: Every Breath You Take and Every ... - Kerrita K. Mayfield: Queering the Inquiry Body: Critical Science Teaching From the Margins - Darrell Cleveland Hucks: Intersectional Warrior: Battling the Onslaught of Layered Microaggressions in the Academy - Erich N. Pitcher: Undone and (Mis)Recognized: Disorienting Experiences of a Queer, Trans* Educator - Part 5: The Political Is Personal - Catherine A. Lugg: Slam Dunk on Tenure? Not So Fast ... - Kamden K. Strunk, Douglas R. Bristol, and William C. Takewell: Queering South Mississippi: Simple and Seemingly Impossible Work - Scotty M. Secrist: Smear the Queer: A Critical Memoir - Thabo Msibi: "I heard it from a good source": Queer Desire and Homophobia in a South African Higher Education Institution - Part 6: Queered All the Way Through - David Lee Carlson: A Profound Moment of Passing - Dana M. Stachowiak: Being Queer in Academia?Queering Academia - William F. Pinar: The Constant in My Life - Contributors

Holding the Center

Author : Howard Wesley Johnson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262600446
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Holding the Center written by Howard Wesley Johnson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-08-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of a former MIT President, as well as professor, corporate director, and advisor to American government agencies and to museums and foundations. Howard Wesley Johnson has been associated with MIT for more than forty years and been a major influence on the modernization and expansion of many of its programs. He will be most remembered as a management educator and as MIT's president during the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s. The title of his memoirs reflects his central, usually lonely position in those days, trying to hold together an institution often torn apart by the turmoil of the times. Johnson was more successful at navigating the minefields on campus than were many other college and university presidents, perhaps because he was always willing to listen to both sides and because his values were in the right place--against the war in Vietnam, in favor of increased participation in the university by women and minorities, and concerned about environmental issues. As a professor and administrator at MIT, a corporate director, and an advisor to American government agencies and to museums and foundations, Johnson consistently sought both to understand and to apply the principles of good management.

Collected Memoirs

Author : Ruth Gruber
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504052978
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Collected Memoirs written by Ruth Gruber and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three poignant and powerful memoirs from the award-winning journalist, human rights advocate, and “fearless chronicler of the Jewish struggle” (The New York Times). Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for her biography of the pioneering Israeli nurse, Raquela Prywes, Ruth Gruber lived an extraordinary life as a foreign correspondent, photographer, humanitarian, and author. This collection is comprised of three of her most gripping memoirs, covering many of the most significant historical events in the first half of the twentieth century. Ahead of Time: At the tender age of eighty, the trailblazing journalist looked back on her remarkable first twenty-five years: growing up in a Brooklyn shtetl; entering New York University at fifteen; becoming the world’s youngest person to earn a PhD at nineteen in Cologne, Germany; being exposed to Hitler’s rise to power; and becoming the first American to travel to Siberia at the age of twenty-four, reporting on Gulag conditions for the New York Herald Tribune, in this “beautifully crafted” memoir (Publishers Weekly). “Ruth Gruber’s singular autobiography is both informative and poignant. Read it and your own memory will be enriched.” —Elie Wiesel Haven: In 1943, nearly one thousand European Jewish refugees were chosen by President Roosevelt to receive asylum in the United States. Working for the secretary of the interior, Gruber volunteered to shepherd them on their secret route across the Atlantic from Italy. She recorded the refugees’ dangerous passage, along with the aftermath of their arrival, which involved a fight to stay in the US after the war ended. The “remarkable story” was made into a TV miniseries starring Natasha Richardson as Gruber (Booklist). “[A] touching story . . . [Ruth Gruber] has put us into the full picture and humanized it.” —The New York Times Inside of Time: Unstoppable at ninety-one, Gruber, “with clarity, insight and humor,” revisited the years 1941 to 1952, recounting her eighteen months spent surveying Alaska on behalf of the US government, her role assisting Holocaust refugees’ emigration from war-torn Europe to Israel, and her relationships with some of the most important figures of the era, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Golda Meir (Publishers Weekly). “Gruber bore witness, spoke bluntly, galvanized public opinion, inspired people to action.” —Blanche Wiesen Cook, Los Angeles Times

The Education We Need for a Future We Can′t Predict

Author : Thomas Hatch
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1071838504
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book The Education We Need for a Future We Can′t Predict written by Thomas Hatch and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve Schools and Transform Education In order for educational systems to change, we must reevaluate deep-seated beliefs about learning, teaching, schooling, and race that perpetuate inequitable opportunities and outcomes. Hatch, Corson, and Gerth van den Berg challenge the narrative when it comes to the "grammar of schooling"--or the conventional structures, practices, and beliefs that define educational experiences for so many children—to cast a new vision of what school could be. The book addresses current systemic problems and solutions as it: Highlights global examples of successful school change Describes strategies that improve educational opportunities and performance Explores promising approaches in developing new learning opportunities Outlines conditions for supporting wide-scale educational improvement This provocative book approaches education reform by highlighting what works, while also demonstrating what can be accomplished if we redefine conventional schools. We can make the schools we have more efficient, more effective, and more equitable, all while creating powerful opportunities to support all aspects of students’ development. "You won’t find a better book on system change in education than this one. We learn why schools don’t change; how they can improve; what it takes to change a system; and, in the final analysis, the possibilities of system change. Above all, The Education We Need renders complexity into clarity as the writing is so clear and compelling. A powerful read on a topic of utmost importance." ~Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, OISE/Universtiy of Toronto "I cannot recommend this book highly enough – Tom tackles long-standing and emerging educational issues in new ways with an impressive understanding of the challenging complexities, but also feasible possibilities, for ensuring excellence and equity for all students." ~Carol Campbell, Associate Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Memoirs of a Left Hander

Author : Vern Shultz
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1456733044
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Left Hander written by Vern Shultz and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Librarys are filled with biographies of famous world leaders, well known sports figures, war heroes and retired politicians. This book, on the other hand, is a biography of an average middle class American from Minnesota who has faced a good share of the same challenges and life experiences that the millions of other middle class Americans are facing in their lives. So before you put this book back on the shelf and look for the biography of George Washington, remember this book is written about a middle class American just like youanyway, the chances are slim that you will end up President!

Memories of the Ford Administration

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679645942
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Memories of the Ford Administration written by John Updike and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When historian Alfred “Alf” Clayton is invited by an academic journal to record his impressions of the Gerald R. Ford Administration (1974–77), he recalls not the political events of the time but rather a turbulent period of his own sexual past. Alf’s highly idiosyncratic contribution to Retrospect consists not only of reams of unbuttoned personal history but also of pages from an unpublished project of the time, a chronicle of the presidency of James Buchanan (1857–61). The alternating texts mirror each other and tell a story in counterpoint, a frequently hilarious comedy of manners contrasting the erotic etiquette and social dictions of antebellum Washington with those of late-twentieth-century southern New Hampshire. Alf’s style is Nabokovian. His obsessions are vintage Updike.