Programs for the Handicapped

Programs for the Handicapped
Title Programs for the Handicapped PDF eBook
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Pages 24
Release 1982
Genre People with disabilities
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Sophie's World

Sophie's World
Title Sophie's World PDF eBook
Author Jostein Gaarder
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 599
Release 2007-03-20
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1466804270

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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Sweating the Small Stuff

Sweating the Small Stuff
Title Sweating the Small Stuff PDF eBook
Author David Whitman
Publisher
Pages 390
Release 2008
Genre Academic achievement
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This book tells the story of six secondary schools that have succeeded in eliminating or dramatically shrinking the achievement gap between whites and disadvantaged black and Hispanic students. It recounts the stories of the University Park Campus School (UPCS) in Worcester, the American Indian Public Charter School in Oakland, Amistad Academy in New Haven, the Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, the KIPP Academy in the Bronx, and the SEED school in Washington, D.C.

Who's Teaching Your Children?

Who's Teaching Your Children?
Title Who's Teaching Your Children? PDF eBook
Author Vivian Troen
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 244
Release 2004-01-01
Genre Education
ISBN 9780300105209

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The shortage of qualified teachers in our nation's classrooms is critical, and it is getting worse. This thought-provoking book reveals the reasons for the crisis and offers concrete, affordable solutions. “A practical vision of how our children can get the high-quality teaching they deserve—a vision worth pondering and even implementing.”—Ted Fiske, former Education Editor of the New York Times and coauthor of When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale “This book should be read not just by teachers and teacher educators but also by parents, citizens, and policy makers—by all those who need to speak out for children.”—Deborah Meier, Educational Leadership “Why do so few people go into teaching, or once they have begun a career in public school teaching, abandon it? Kitty Boles and Vivian Troen, teachers both, investigate that question and then propose considerable and thoughtful changes that would bring great benefit to our beloved profession.”—Theodore Sizer and Nancy Faust Sizer, authors of The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract

Dewey's Laboratory School

Dewey's Laboratory School
Title Dewey's Laboratory School PDF eBook
Author Laurel Tanner
Publisher Teachers College Press
Pages 325
Release 1997
Genre Education
ISBN 0807774405

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Laurel Tanner examines closely the practices and policies of Dewey’s Laboratory School from their inception to the current day. Dewey’s Laboratory School: Lessons for Today provides a wealth of practical guidance on how schools today can introduce Deweyian reforms the way they were originally—and successfully—practiced. It is filled with fascinating excerpts from the school’s teachers’ reports and other original documents. It will be an indispensable text in graduate courses in foundations, curriculum and instruction, early childhood education, instructional supervision, and philosophy of education and for professors, researchers, and general readers in these fields. Selected Topics: Dewey’s Developmental Curriculum—An Idea for the Twenty-First Century • Dewey’s School as a Learning Community • What Have We Learned from Dewey’s School? • Looking at Reform the Dewey Way “The most readable account published of Dewey’s Laboratory School and its lessons for American schools today.” —Elliot W. Eisner, Chair, Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education, Stanford University School of Education “In this fascinating account of the Dewey School, we can almost imagine ourselves as teachers in those fabled classrooms.” —Vivian Gussin Paley, Author and teacher “Laurel Tanner has written the book we should have had decades ago.” —John I. Goodlad, Co-Director, Center for Educational Renewal and President, Institute for Educational Inquiry “Tanner highlights what can be learned today from the setbacks and successes of John Dewey and the teachers at the [Laboratory School at the] University of Chicago.” —Lilian G. Katz, Director, ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education

Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook

Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook
Title Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook PDF eBook
Author William Klein
Publisher DIANE Publishing
Pages 385
Release 1998-06
Genre
ISBN 0788170325

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Directory: Public Elementary and Secondary Day Schools, 1968-69: North Atlantic region

Directory: Public Elementary and Secondary Day Schools, 1968-69: North Atlantic region
Title Directory: Public Elementary and Secondary Day Schools, 1968-69: North Atlantic region PDF eBook
Author Diane Bochner Gertler
Publisher
Pages 256
Release 1970
Genre Elementary schools
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