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"Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school. Black girls represent 16 percent of female students but almost half of all girls with a school-related arrest....
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"Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in this book the author argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character: skills like perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, optimism, and self-control. The book introduces us to a new generation...
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The original cloth edition of this book caused a firestorm of controversy and acclaim, with two major features in Newsweek, and other major broadcast and print media. Parents and educators who are painfully familiar with the crisis in boy's education bought and discussed this book passionately, producing the greatest hardcover sales any Gurian titles has achieved to date. Gurian's greatest sales in the past have always been in paperback, so we're...
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John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, introduced the now-famous expression of the title into the common vernacular. Weapons of Mass Instruction adds another chilling metaphor to the brief against conventional schooling.
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In One Without the Other: Stories of Unity Through Diversity and Inclusion, Shelley Moore explores the changing landscape of inclusive education. Presented through real stories from her own classroom experience, this passionate and creative educator tackles such things as inclusion as a philosophy and practice, the difference between integration and inclusion, and how inclusion can work with a variety of students and abilities. Explorations of differentiation,...
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"John Taylor Gatto's radical treatise on public education, a New Society Publishers bestseller for 25 years, continues to advocate for the unshackling of children and learning from formal schooling. Now, in an ever-more-rapidly changing world with an explosion of alternative routes to learning, it's poised to continue to shake the world of institutional education for many more years."--
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"Clear, easy principles to spot what's nonsense and what's reliable. Each year, teachers, administrators, and parents face a barrage of new education software, games, workbooks, and professional development programs purporting to be "based on the latest research." While some of these products are rooted in solid science, the research behind many others is grossly exaggerated. This new book, written by a top thought leader, helps everyday teachers,...
12) The state must provide: why America's colleges have always been unequal--and how to set them right
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Presents a definitive chronicle of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher education, weaving through the legal, social, and political obstacles erected to block equitable education in the United States.
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My weird school volume 5
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IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A.J. and the other second graders do everything except play sports when they go to "fizz ed" class with their new teacher, Miss Small.
14) That Deaf Kid
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That Deaf Kid is a valuable resource for parents of deaf and hard of hearing children. It examines the ongoing tug-of-war between mainstreaming, deaf schools, hearing aids, cochlear implants, sign language, speech therapy, and more. That Deaf Kid brings these issues to light and shows how it's possible to have a healthy balance. Most important, it builds a critical bridge between fitting in and belonging. When we cross that bridge, we encourage deaf...
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Going to get higher education may be stressful, especially when you want to go to medical field. So, us, as medical students have gathered some ideas, recommendations, tips and lifehacks on how to ace you medical school without too much stress. So consider this your book your mentor into medical field, and wish you all the best in medicine!
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Schluss mit Nuscheln, Zittern, Piepsen. Jeder kann wundervoll sprechen lernen. Studien haben bewiesen: Eine souveräne, wohltuende Stimme ist wichtig für beruflichen und privaten Erfolg. Wer mitreißende Reden halten, Vertrauen wecken und ankommen will, holt sich Unterstützung vom Sprech-Coach. Schon ein wenig Stimmtraining kann die Karriere beflügeln. Auch für Millionen Bundesbürger ist es möglich, in jeder Situation den richtigen ton zu treffen....
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Are you about to graduate from high school? Are you a recent college graduate? Are you a first-generation college student? Are you considering a career in higher education? Are you an underrepresented minority working in higher education? Do you believe that everyone deserves access to quality education? I wrote this book for you!
Dr. Carjie Scott, the Education Equalizer, ™ defied the odds as a first-generation college student who rose to the...
18) Chinespeak 60
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Welcome to Chinespeak 60, the audiobook for Chinese beginners! Want to learn useful Chinese sentences quickly and effortlessly? Then look no further!
Chinespeak 60 contains 6 topics – from greetings to talking about likings – and each topic has 10 sentences that you'll hear twice. To optimize your learning experience, each sentence is read twice: once at normal speed, and once as a slow repetition, so that you can carefully discern and replicate...
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A history of America's first black high school and an unflinching analysis of the state of urban public school education today. Dunbar High School in Washington, DC, defied the odds and, in the process, changed America. 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 strings. These enormous...
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Help Your Child Fight Dyslexia and Read/Write Her Favorite Stories
I know how difficult it is for a Dyslexic child to excel in studies, having suffered from it in my childhood. But I fought this bravely with the help of my inspiring teacher, who always supported me.
I took the opportunity to create a book that could share my stories with other struggling children to inspire them to become brave.
Sophia the Supergirl is a story about a princess...
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