Sartre and No Child Left Behind: An Existential Psychoanalytic Anthropology of Urban Schooling asks two fundamental questions: "Who do students become as a result of inhabiting impoverished urban schools for eight hours a day, five days a week, over the course of several years? What happens to the hearts, minds, and spirits of these children?" Using nine months of field observation and interviews with students, teachers, and administrators at a New York City middle school-The Academy (pseudonym)...
A timely indictment of the corporate takeover of education and the privatization - and profitability - of separate and unequal schools, published at a critical time in the dismantling of public education in America What do public schools have in common with the pyramid schemes of Amway? Absolutely nothing, yet Trump's education secretary Betsy DeVos - part of the family at the helm of this corporation and a fierce advocate for vouchers, school choice, and free market competition in the education...
Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform (Secondary Education in a Changing World)
by Barry M Franklin
LET THEM SPEAK! Voices of Urban Black High School Graduates in San Bernardino California
by Luquanda Neekey Hawkins
Dear Philly Parents with Children in Decrepit Public Schools
by Patricia Hammock-Gilbert
Enciclopedia illustrata del Liberty a Milano Padova Vol. 1 (Liberty, #31)
by Maurizio Om Ongaro
Breaking the Cycle tells the inspiring story of young people whom many would write off as a lost cause but who, thanks to a remarkable school, are headed for success. We learn about their world from teens like Shawna, the daughter of a crack-addicted mother. Or Andre, the only one in his family not on drugs. Or Daron, kicked out of his home by an abusive father. Challenged by the pernicious factors of their environment-drugs, violence, fatherless homes, and poor educational backgrounds-students...
Look, Listen, Learn, LEAD (Transforming Education Systems)
by Jeffery Smith, Kate Wolfe Maxlow, and John Caggianno
Look, Listen, Learn, LEAD: A District-Wide Systems Approach to Teaching and Learning in PreK-12 lays out the transformational journey of Hampton City Schools (HCS), an urban school division of 30 schools in southeastern Virginia. Our school district faces numerous challenges, such as 62% of students receiving free and reduced-price lunch and 14% of students holding an IEP, and in 2015-2016, Hampton City Schools' state accreditation rate was approximately half the statewide rate and on a downward...
Involving two or more academic subjects, interdisciplinary studies aim to blend together broad perspectives, knowledge, skills, and epistemology in an educational setting. By focusing on topics or questions too broad for a single discipline to cover, these studies strive to draw connections between seemingly different fields. Cases on Interdisciplinary Research Trends in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Studies on Urban Classrooms presents research and information on implementi...
Physical Signs of Spiritual Spouses (Spiritual Relationships Book, #2)
by Emma's Daughter
Cultivating Achievement, Respect, and Empowerment (Care) for African American Girls in Prek 12 Settings
New York City has some of the best public high schools in the country - as well as some of the worst. This essential guide provides everything parents need to know in choosing a high school that is just right for their child. Interviews with teachers, parents, and students uncover the "inside scoop" on schools, including atmosphere, homework, student stress, competition among students, the quality of teachers, gender issues, the condition of the building, and more. It also provides the hard fact...
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Facilitator Guide
by Nashid S Sharrief
Guests Welcomed Respect Required An Urban Guide To Becoming Socially Effective
by Aisha N Thurman
Sacred Struggle? No. 3 - Booker T. Washington Composition Book Wide Ruled (Sacred Struggle Composition Book Wide Ruled, #3)
by African Learners