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Odd Girl Speaks Out
Girls Write about Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousy
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2004
The national bestseller Odd Girl Out exposed a hidden culture of cruelty that had always been quietly endured by American girls. As Rachel Simmons toured the country, these girls found their voices and spoke to her about their pain. They wanted to talk-and they weren't the only ones. Mothers, teachers,...
by François Gravel
Language: French
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Professeur de cégep pendant des années, aujourd’hui auteur jeunesse visitant régulièrement les écoles de la province, François Gravel a passé presque toute sa vie dans les salles de classe. En vingt-six courts textes, il revoit chacune des époques où il a fréquenté l’école et nous...
The Course Reflection Project
Faculty Reflections on Teaching ServiceLearning
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Servicelearning is entering a postinitiatory phase. At tertiary institutions of all types and sizes, servicelearning programs are common and servicelearning requirements for graduation are growing in popularity. Taken together alongside continued faculty interest in effective teaching these factors...
School of Dreams
Making the Grade at a Top American High School
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
What is the price of an education at a top public high school?
Whitney High delivers everything we ask of a school: a love of learning, a sense of mission, and SAT scores to die for. But there are unintended consequences to attending the school of our dreams, as author Edward Humes found during...
Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Lives
Bridging the Everyday/Academic Divide, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Like previous editions, the third edition of Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives invites middle- and high-school educators to move toward a broad, generative view of adolescent literacies. Recognizing that digital media, social networking phenomena are now central in adolescents’...
Early and School-Age Care in Santa Monica
Current System, Policy Options, and Recommendations: Executive Summary
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
In July 2012, the City of Santa Monica Human Services Division and the Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District contracted with the RAND Corporation to conduct an assessment of child care programs in Santa Monica. The project sought to assess how well Santa Monica’s early and school-age care...
Dyslexia Wonders
Understanding the Daily Life of a Dyslexic from a Child's Point of View
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
A Child Knows More Than You Think. Written by a 12 Year Old Child With Dyslexia…Jennifer is struggling through school. Kids tease her, teachers question her ability. Her own family doesn't even understand her. Listen to her story as she tells it in her own words. Learn how she struggles from being...
by Benjamin Granger
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Welcome to the book, Excellent Study Methods and Concepts, where I discuss effective methods, tools, concepts, and habits so you can do well on tests, and overall courses. I discuss topics such as what to do when you need extra help, where and what tools are available to you, and also helpful everyday...
Positive Discipline in the Classroom, Revised 3rd Edition
Developing Mutual Respect, Cooperation, and Responsibility in Your Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
The Acclaimed Bestseller That Can Improve Your Classroom Experience Forever!
Over the years, millions of parents have come to trust the classic Positive Discipline series for its consistent, commmonsense approach to child rearing. Hundreds of schools also use these amazingly effective strategies for...
by Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In an era of skyrocketing tuition and concern over whether college is “worth it,” Paying for the Party is an indispensable contribution to the dialogue assessing the state of American higher education. A powerful exposé of unmet obligations and misplaced priorities, it explains in detail why so many leave college with so little to show for it.
Learning Privilege
Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
How can teachers bridge the gap between their commitments to social justice and their day to day practice? This is the question author Adam Howard asked as he began teaching at an elite private school and the question that led him to conduct a six-year study on affluent schooling. Unfamiliar with...
From Family Collapse to America's Decline
The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Very high rates of family fragmentation in the United States are subtracting from what very large numbers of students are learning in school and forever holding them back in many other ways. This in turn is damaging the country economically by making us less primed for innovation while also making...
Pledged
The Secret Life of Sororities
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
2015 Edition: With a New Preface, Afterword, and Updates.
"Alexandra Robbins rips into the secret, sordid underbelly of sororities."--Vanity Fair
Updated ten years after it is original publication, Pledged by Alexandra Robbins is as timely today as it was when first published....
by Calvin White
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Most of us live double lives. There is the part we show in public, and there is the person on the inside, that private individual with the proclivities, stresses, dreams and behaviors that we hide from prying eyes. The teen years are the perfect storm when truth is lived in a more transparent manner...