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Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America
"This big-shouldered book, full of ardor...offers us a reasonable hope that with attention and care we can again make public education what it was meant to be, and must yet be."—The Los Angeles Times.
- ASIN: 0140236171
- ASIN: 0140236171
- ISBN: 0140236171
- Brand: Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools
As the United States reexamines its borders and immigration policies, the debate over educating immigrant students in our public schools has divided Americans. What can teachers and immigrant students expect from each other? Laurie Olsen, director of a nationally recognized immigrant organization, describes what it looks and feels like to go to school and to teach in a culturally diverse environment. Made in America describes Madison High, a prototypical public high school, where more than 20 percent of students were born in another country and more than a third speak limited English or come... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1595583491
- ASIN: 1595583491
- ISBN: 1595583491
- Manufacturer: The New Press
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In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School
“The best book on high school dynamics I have ever read.”―Jay Mathews, Washington PostAn award-winning professor and an accomplished educator take us beyond the hype of reform and inside some of America’s most innovative classrooms to show what is working―and what isn’t―in our schools.What would it take to transform industrial-era schools into modern organizations capable of supporting deep learning for all? Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine’s quest to answer this question took them inside some of America’s most innovative schools and classrooms―places where educators are rethinking... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0674988396
- ASIN: 0674988396
- ISBN: 0674988396
- Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Everything You Need to Ace World History in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide (Big Fat Notebooks)
It’s the revolutionary world history study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest. Everything You Need to Ace World History . . . kicks off with the Paleolithic Era and transports the reader to ancient civilizations—from Africa and beyond; the middle ages across the world; the Renaissance; the age of exploration and colonialism, revolutions, and the modern world and the wars and movements that shaped it. The BIG FAT NOTEBOOK™ series is built on a simple and irresistible conceit—borrowing the notes from the smartest kid in class. There are five b... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0761160949
- ASIN: 0761160949
- ISBN: 0761160949
- Brand: Workman Publishing Company
- Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
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Hollywood High: The History of America's Most Famous Public School
Traces the story of Hollywood High School from its beginning in 1905 to the present, through interviews with the stars, their classmates, teachers, and principals
- ASIN: 0345343441
- ASIN: 0345343441
- ISBN: 0345343441
- Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White
Setting the Record Straight is a unique view of the religious and moral heritage of black Americans, with an emphasis on the untold yet significant stories from our rich political history. The material presented is ground-breaking and revolutionary, leaving viewers amazed and inspired.
- ASIN: 1932225277
- UPC: 884712376109
- ASIN: 1932225277
- ISBN: 1932225277
- Brand: Brand: WallBuilder Press
- Manufacturer: WallBuilder Press
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The Assault On Freedom In America
Endorsed by: U.S. Congressman Trey Gowdy."Mac Taylor's book is a clear and penetrating expression of what is happening to America and a real challenge to the forces that would make America great again." S.C. Senator David Thomas.The Assault On Freedom In America will inform you about the assault that is being waged against your freedom and what you can do about it. You will see why and who is behind the constant clamor of destructive criticism of America. You will learn of the common themes and people that exist within each of the seemingly diverse protests which are adding to the individual a... [Read More]
- ASIN: 194597575X
- ASIN: 194597575X
- ISBN: 194597575X
- Manufacturer: Living Parables of Central Florida, Inc.
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All American Yemeni Girls: Being Muslim in a Public School
Based on more than two years of fieldwork conducted in a Yemeni community in southeastern Michigan, this unique study examines Yemeni American girls' attempts to construct and make sense of their identities as Yemenis, Muslims, Americans, daughters of immigrants, teenagers, and high school students. All American Yemeni Girls contributes substantially to our understanding of the impact of religion on students attending public schools and the intersecting roles school and religion play in the lives of Yemeni students and their families. Providing a valuable background on the history of Yemen and... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0812218949
- UPC: 884235412247
- ASIN: 0812218949
- ISBN: 0812218949
- Brand: Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
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Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
With over a million copies sold, Economics in One Lesson is an essential guide to the basics of economic theory. A fundamental influence on modern libertarianism, Hazlitt defends capitalism and the free market from economic myths that persist to this day. Considered among the leading economic thinkers of the “Austrian School,” which includes Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich (F.A.) Hayek, and others, Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993), was a libertarian philosopher, an economist, and a journalist. He was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early edito... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0517548232
- ASIN: 0517548232
- ISBN: 0517548232
- Brand: Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
- Manufacturer: Currency
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For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education (Race, Education, and Democracy)
A New York Times Best SellerMerging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education.Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color and merging his experiences with more than a decade of teaching and researching in urban America, award-winning educator Christopher Emdin offers a new lens on an approach to teaching and learning in urban schools. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y’all Too is the much-needed... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0807028029
- ASIN: 0807028029
- ISBN: 0807028029
- Brand: Emdin Christopher
- Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while pr... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0553447459
- ASIN: 0553447459
- ISBN: 0553447459
- Brand: BROADWAY
- Manufacturer: Broadway Books
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2017 Longlisted for the National Book AwardThis “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius ... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1631494538
- ASIN: 1631494538
- ISBN: 9781631494536
- Manufacturer: Liveright
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system f... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1595586431
- UPC: 642688055035
- ASIN: 1595586431
- ISBN: 1595586431
- Brand: Baker and Taylor
- Manufacturer: The New Press
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The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
The bestselling The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don't live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue-they live next door. This new edition, the first since 1998, includes a new foreword for the twenty-first century by Dr. Thomas J. Stanley.
- ASIN: 1589795474
- ASIN: 1589795474
- ISBN: 1589795474
- Brand: Taylor Trade Publishing
- Manufacturer: Taylor Trade Publishing
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A Time to Learn: Creating Community in America's High Schools
The author reveals how he left academia behind in order to become the principal of a struggling high school, and how he turned the school and its students around through dedication and determination
- ASIN: 0525939555
- ASIN: 0525939555
- ISBN: 0525939555
- Manufacturer: Dutton Adult
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High-Risers : Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
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- UPC: 736346049
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The Last Public High School in America - eBook
Adam Hollis has taught public high school in America. He is giving final exams today with graduation set for tomorrow. After that, the last public high school in America will
- UPC: 363728563
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The Hate U Give
After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what
- UPC: 55134273
- Rating: 4.76
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First Class : The Legacy of Dunbar, America's First Black Public High School
In the first half of the twentieth century, Dunbar was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law and existing at the mercy of racist congressmen who held the school s purse
- UPC: 44369356
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Why America's Public Schools Are the Best Place for Kids - eBook
The successes of America’s public schools are unrivaled throughout the globe providing an opportunity for every American to graduate from high school. Graduation rates have soared, test scores are better than at anytime, and immigrants
- UPC: 701149577
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High-Risers : Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
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New York City's Best Public High Schools - eBook
If you lived anywhere else in the country, you would probably send your child to your neighborhood high school. In New York City, it’s much more complicated than that. But what parent has time to
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Rewards for High Public Office in Europe and North America - eBook
Anyone observing the recent scandals in the United Kingdom could not fail to understand the political importance of the rewards of high public office. The British experience has been extreme but by no means unique,
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