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Addicted to Reform

A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education

By: John Merrow

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Addicted to Reform

A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education

By: John Merrow

The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America's misguided approaches to K-12 school reform During an illustrious four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow—winner of the George Polk Award, the Peabody Award, and the McGraw Prize—reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on everything from the rise of district-wide cheating scandals and the corporate greed driving an ADD epidemic to teacher-training controversies and America's obsession with standardized testing. Along the way, he taught in a high school, at a historically black college, and at a federal penitentiary. Now, the revered education correspondent of PBS NewsHour distills his best thinking on education into a twelve-step approach to fixing a K–12 system that Merrow describes as being "addicted to reform" but unwilling to address the real issue: American public schools are ill-equipped to prepare young people for the challenges of the twenty-first century. This insightful book looks at how to turn digital natives into digital citizens and why it should be harder to become a teacher but easier to be one. Merrow offers smart, essential chapters—including "Measure What Matters," and "Embrace Teachers"—that reflect his countless hours spent covering classrooms as well as corridors of power. His signature candid style of reportage comes to life as he shares lively anecdotes, schoolyard tales, and memories that are at once instructive and endearing. Addicted to Reform is written with the kind of passionate concern that could come only from a lifetime devoted to the people and places that constitute the foundation of our nation. It is a "big book" that forms an astute and urgent blueprint for providing a quality education to every American child.

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The New Press

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1620972433

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9781620972434

Declining by Degrees

Higher Education at Risk

By: Richard H. Hersh,John Merrow

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Declining by Degrees

Higher Education at Risk

By: Richard H. Hersh,John Merrow

What is actually happening on college campuses in the years between admission and graduation? Not enough to keep America competitive, and not enough to provide our citizens with fulfilling lives. When A Nation at Risk called attention to the problems of our public schools in 1983, that landmark report provided a convenient "cover" for higher education, inadvertently implying that all was well on America's campuses. Declining by Degrees blows higher education's cover. It asks tough--and long overdue--questions about our colleges and universities. In candid, coherent, and ultimately provocative ways, Declining by Degrees reveals: - how students are being short-changed by lowered academic expectations and standards; -why many universities focus on research instead of teaching and spend more on recruiting and athletics than on salaries for professors; -why students are disillusioned; -how administrations are obsessed with rankings in news magazines rather than the quality of learning; -why the media ignore the often catastrophic results; and -how many professors and students have an unspoken "non-aggression pact" when it comes to academic effort. Declining by Degrees argues persuasively that the multi-billion dollar enterprise of higher education has gone astray. At the same time, these essays offer specific prescriptions for change, warning that our nation is in fact at greater risk if we do nothing.

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268

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St. Martin's Press

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1466893389

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9781466893382

Hide the Baron

(Writing as Anthony Morton)

By: John Creasey

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Hide the Baron

(Writing as Anthony Morton)

By: John Creasey

Why is George Morrow being threatened? Why was Jimmy Garfield murdered? What was really in the box that he kept in the seat of his wheelchair? John Mannering - alias ‘The Baron’ - takes on another spine-tingling adventure and seeks to solve the mystery.

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175

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House of Stratus

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0755137418

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9780755137411

School System Reform

How and Why is a Price-less Tale

By: John Merrifield

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School System Reform

How and Why is a Price-less Tale

By: John Merrifield

This book identifies root causes of persistently disappointing classroom outcomes, identifies the policy root causes of the classroom causes of Nation at Risk, persistently low school system performance, and then lays out a strategy for identifying the key elements of a high-performing school system, and then achieving their implementation. A discussion forum for each chapter is at www.schoolsystemreformstudies.net

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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1645599639

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Teach Your Own

The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning with Children at Home

By: John Holt,Pat Farenga

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Teach Your Own

The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning with Children at Home

By: John Holt,Pat Farenga

The classic guide to teaching children at home for a new generation of homeschooling parents In 2019, there were more than two million children being homeschooled. That number doubled during the pandemic and is now likely to continue increasing as more parents worry that school might not be the best place for their children to learn and grow. Teach Your Own helped launch the homeschooling movement; now, its timeless and revolutionary message of recognizing the ways children come to understand the world has been updated for today’s environment. Parents and caregivers will discover how to navigate: Learning in a classroom versus learning in the world The difference between a learning difficulty (which we all experience every time we try to learn anything) and a learning disability. Schedules that achieve the homeschooling-work-life balance that you want as a family The relationship between learning and play Homeschooling and technology And much more. John Holt's warm understanding of children and his passionate belief in every child's ability to learn have made this book an essential resource for over forty years to homeschooling families.

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Hachette Go

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0306926202

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9780306926204

Dæmonomania

By: John Crowley

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Dæmonomania

By: John Crowley

As the winter solstice approaches, so does the final battle of an age-old war in this third novel of the landmark literary fantasy series. The would-be historian and author Pierce Moffett has moved from New York to the Faraway Hills, where he seems to discover—or rediscover—a path into magic, past and present. Meanwhile, single mother Rosie Rasmussen grapples with her mysterious uncle's legacy and her young daughter Samantha’s inexplicable seizures. And for Pierce's lover Rose Ryder, another path unfolds: she’s drawn into a cult that promises to exorcise her demons. It is the dark of the year, between Halloween and the winter solstice, and the gateway is open between the worlds of the living and the dead. A great cycle of time is ending, and Pierce and Rosie, Samantha and Rose Ryder must take sides in an epic conflict that is approaching its ultimate confrontation . . . Or is it? Dæmonomania is a journey into the very mystery of existence: what is, what went before, and what could break through at any moment in our lives. It follows The Solitudes and Love & Sleep, both of which were included in Harold Bloom’s Western Canon.

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487

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Abrams

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146830397X

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9781468303971

In the Crossfire

Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American School Reform

By: John P. Spencer

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In the Crossfire

Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American School Reform

By: John P. Spencer

As media reports declare crisis after crisis in public education, Americans find themselves hotly debating educational inequalities that seem to violate their nation's ideals. Why does success in school track so closely with race and socioeconomic status? How to end these apparent achievement gaps? In the Crossfire brings historical perspective to these debates by tracing the life and work of Marcus Foster, an African American educator who struggled to reform urban schools in the 1960s and early 1970s. As a teacher, principal, and superintendent—first in his native Philadelphia and eventually in Oakland, California—Foster made success stories of urban schools and children whom others had dismissed as hopeless, only to be assassinated in 1973 by the previously unknown Symbionese Liberation Army in a bizarre protest against an allegedly racist school system. Foster's story encapsulates larger social changes in the decades after World War II: the great black migration from South to North, the civil rights movement, the decline of American cities, and the ever-increasing emphasis on education as a ticket to success. Well before the accountability agenda of the No Child Left Behind Act or the rise of charter schools, Americans came into sharp conflict over urban educational failure, with some blaming the schools and others pointing to conditions in homes and neighborhoods. By focusing on an educator who worked in the trenches and had a reputation for bridging divisions, In the Crossfire sheds new light on the continuing ideological debates over race, poverty, and achievement. Foster charted a course between the extremes of demanding too little and expecting too much of schools as agents of opportunity in America. He called for accountability not only from educators but also from families, taxpayers, and political and economic institutions. His effort to mobilize multiple constituencies was a key to his success—and a lesson for educators and policymakers who would take aim at achievement gaps without addressing the full range of school and nonschool factors that create them.

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314

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812207661

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9780812207668

How the Just So Stories Were Made

The Brilliance and Tragedy Behind Kipling's Celebrated Tales for Little Children

By: John Batchelor

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How the Just So Stories Were Made

The Brilliance and Tragedy Behind Kipling's Celebrated Tales for Little Children

By: John Batchelor

A fascinating, richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard Kipling's world-famous children's classic From "How the Leopard Got Its Spots" to "The Elephant's Child," Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories have delighted readers across the world for more than a century. In this original study, John Batchelor explores the artistry with which Kipling created the Just So Stories, using each tale as an entry point into the writer's life and work--including the tragedy that shadows much of the volume, the death of his daughter Josephine. Batchelor details the playful challenges the stories made to contemporary society. In his stories Kipling played with biblical and other stories of creation and imagined fantastical tales of animals' development and man's discovery of literacy. Richly illustrated with original drawings and family photographs, this account reveals Kipling's public and private lives--and sheds new light on a much-loved and tremendously influential classic.

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237

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Yale University Press

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0300237189

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9780300237184

Biotic Interactions in Arid Lands

By: John L. Cloudsley-Thompson

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Biotic Interactions in Arid Lands

By: John L. Cloudsley-Thompson

The exigencies of life in the desert environment have resulted in the se lection of a diversity of adaptations, both morphological and physiologi cal, in the flora and fauna. At the same time, many plants and most small animals are able not merely to exist but even to thrive under desert conditions - mainly by avoiding thermal extremes and by the refine ment of pre-existing abilities to economise in water. In the same way, the biotic interactions of the flora and fauna of the desert do not involve many new principles. Nevertheless, conditions in arid regions frequently do invoke refinements of the complex interrelations between predators and their prey, parasites and their hosts, as well as between herbivores and the plants upon which they feed. In this book, I shall discuss not only such interactions and their feedback effects, but also community processes and population dynamics in the desert. The physical conditions of the desert that principally affect predators and their prey are its openness and the paucity of cover. This is re stricted to scattered plants, occasional rocks, holes, and crevices in the ground. Furthermore, nightfall does not confer relative invisibility, as it does in many other ecobiomes, because of the clarity of the atmosphere. The bright starlight of the desert renders nearby objects visible even to the human eye, while an incandescent moon bathes the empty landscape with a flood of silver light. Consequently, adaptive coloration is func tional at all hours of the day and night.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642609775

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9783642609770

Memoir of William Ladd

By: John Hemmenway

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Memoir of William Ladd

By: John Hemmenway

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382145332

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9783382145330

Delphi Complete Works of William John Locke (Illustrated)

By: William John Locke

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Delphi Complete Works of William John Locke (Illustrated)

By: William John Locke

The early twentieth century English novelist William John Locke has suffered neglect in recent rimes, though in his day he was a bestselling author on both sides of the Atlantic. He published a long series of novels noted for their charmingly written romances, which went on to be adapted for the stage and silver screen. Locke’s books are noted for their enticing social dramas, well-drawn characters and polished prose. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Locke’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Locke’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All 32 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘The Shorn Lamb’ and ‘Moordius & Co.’ * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare story collections available in no other collection * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Novels At the Gate of Samaria (1894) The Demagogue and Lady Phayre (1895) Some Women and a Man (1896) Derelicts (1897) The White Dove (1900) The Usurper (1901) Where Love is (1903) The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne (1905) The Belovéd Vagabond (1906) Septimus (1909) Viviette (1910) Simon the Jester (1910) The Glory of Clementina Wing (1911) Idols (1911) Stella Maris (1913) The Fortunate Youth (1914) Jaffery (1915) The Wonderful Year (1916) The Red Planet (1917) The Rough Road (1918) The Mountebank (1920) The House of Baltazar (1920) The Tale of Triona (1922) Moordius & Co. (1923) The Coming of Amos (1924) The Great Pandolfo (1925) The Old Bridge (1926) The Kingdom of Theophilus (1927) Joshua’s Vision (1928) Ancestor Jorico (1929) The Town of Tombarel (1930) The Shorn Lamb (1930) The Shorter Fiction A Christmas Mystery (1910) The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol (1912) Far-Away Stories (1916) Stories Near and Far (1926) The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order

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Delphi Classics

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1801701938

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Book's by John Merrow

Addicted to Reform

Addicted to Reform

Declining by Degrees

Declining by Degrees

Hide the Baron

Hide the Baron

School System Reform

School System Reform

Teach Your Own

Teach Your Own

Dæmonomania

Dæmonomania

In the Crossfire

In the Crossfire

How the Just So Stories Were Made

How the Just So Stories Were Made

Biotic Interactions in Arid Lands

Biotic Interactions in Arid Lands

Memoir of William Ladd

Memoir of William Ladd

Delphi Complete Works of William John Locke (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of William John Locke (Illustrated)

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