The Ninth Decade
Title | The Ninth Decade PDF eBook |
Author | Carl H. Klaus |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2021-09-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1609387872 |
The Ninth Decade is a path-breaking and timely book on aging: the first to focus explicitly and at length on eighty-somethings, the fastest-growing demographic in the industrialized world. Covering eight years in lively six-month installments, Klaus tells a vivid story not only of his own ninth decade and survival routines, but also of his loving companion, Jackie, who is strikingly different from him in her physical well-being, practical outlook, sociable temperament, and vigorous workouts. Cameos of their octogenarian friends and relatives near and far add to a wide-ranging and revelatory portrayal of advanced aging, as do bios of notable octogenarians. The multi-year scope of his chronicle reveals the numerous physical and mental problems that arise during octogenarian life and how eighty-year-olds have dealt with those challenges. The Ninth Decade is a unique, first-hand source of information for anyone in their sixties, seventies, or eighties, as well as for persons devoted to care of the aged. Though the challenges of octogenarian life often require specialized care, The Ninth Decade also shows the pleasures of it to be so special as to have inspired Lillian Hellman’s paradoxical description of “longer life” as “the happy problem of our time.”
The Ninth Decade ...
Title | The Ninth Decade ... PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest Benson Perkins |
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Pages | 19 |
Release | 1971 |
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The Ninth Decade
Title | The Ninth Decade PDF eBook |
Author | Carl H. Klaus |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2021-09-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1609387864 |
"Essays, written and collected over ten years, documenting Carl Klaus' 80s. Topics ranging from aging, food, finances, health, reading, writing, Trump, and social upheavals"--
Life Viewed from the Ninth Decade
Title | Life Viewed from the Ninth Decade PDF eBook |
Author | George Laurens Petrie |
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Pages | 13 |
Release | 1925* |
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Ninth Decade
Title | Ninth Decade PDF eBook |
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Release | 1985 |
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The Twenty-Ninth Year
Title | The Twenty-Ninth Year PDF eBook |
Author | Hala Alyan |
Publisher | Mariner Books |
Pages | 99 |
Release | 2019-01-29 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1328511944 |
Wild, lyrical poems that examine the connections between physical and interior migration, from award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses.
The Make-or-Break Year
Title | The Make-or-Break Year PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Krone Phillips |
Publisher | The New Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2019-01-08 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1620973243 |
A Washington Post Bestseller An entirely fresh approach to ending the high school dropout crisis is revealed in this groundbreaking chronicle of unprecedented transformation in a city notorious for its "failing schools" In eighth grade, Eric thought he was going places. But by his second semester of freshman year at Hancock High, his D's in Environmental Science and French, plus an F in Mr. Castillo's Honors Algebra class, might have suggested otherwise. Research shows that students with more than one semester F during their freshman year are very unlikely to graduate. If Eric had attended Hancock—or any number of Chicago's public high schools—just a decade earlier, chances are good he would have dropped out. Instead, Hancock's new way of responding to failing grades, missed homework, and other red flags made it possible for Eric to get back on track. The Make-or-Break Year is the largely untold story of how a simple idea—that reorganizing schools to get students through the treacherous transitions of freshman year greatly increases the odds of those students graduating—changed the course of two Chicago high schools, an entire school system, and thousands of lives. Marshaling groundbreaking research on the teenage brain, peer relationships, and academic performance, journalist turned communications expert Emily Krone Phillips details the emergence of Freshman OnTrack, a program-cum-movement that is translating knowledge into action—and revolutionizing how teachers grade, mete out discipline, and provide social, emotional, and academic support to their students. This vivid description of real change in a faulty system will captivate anyone who cares about improving our nation's schools; it will inspire educators and families to reimagine their relationships with students like Eric, and others whose stories affirm the pivotal nature of ninth grade for all young people. In a moment of relentless focus on what doesn't work in education and the public sphere, Phillips's dramatic account examines what does.