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Restorative Justice in Urban Schools
Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The school-to-prison pipeline is often the path for marginalized students, particularly black males, who are three times as likely to be suspended as White students. This volume provides an ethnographic portrait of how educators can implement restorative justice to build positive school cultures and...
Educational Futures
Dominant and Contesting Visions
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
This book provides an overview and analysis of current tensions, debates and key issues within OECD nations, particularly Australia, the USA, Canada and the UK, with regard to where education is and should be going. Using a broad historical analysis, it investigates ideas and visions about the future...
U Thrive
How to Succeed in College (and Life)
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
From the professors who teach NYU's most popular elective class, "Science of Happiness," a fun, comprehensive guide to surviving and thriving in college and beyond.
Every year, almost 4,000,000 students begin their freshman year at colleges and universities nationwide. Most of them will sleep...
Surmounting All Odds Vol. 1
Education, Opportunity, and Society in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Volume 1 in the two volume set about overcoming the odds in African American Education.
The Broken Cisterns of African American Education
Academic Performance and Achievement in the PostBrown Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The failure of American education to achieve racial diversity has resulted from the inability of educational researchers, policy makers and judicial officials to disentangle the complex definitions that have emerged in a postsegregated society. More specifically, the capricious aim of postsegregated...
by Author : Michèle Longour, Illustrator : Laurie Dannus, Translator : Claire Aylward
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
In a world where night-time activities are numerous and where new technologies keep us awake night and day, sleep is often diminished and neglected. However, a chronic lack of sleep bears long term consequences that can deteriorate your quality of life: decreased physical and intellectual performances,...
Making the Connection
DataInformed Practices in Academic Support Centers for College Athletes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Making the Connection: DataInformed Practices in Academic Support Centers for College Athletes is practical and ideal for those who seek to use research to inform their individual and organizational practices. This volume is primarily intended for upperlevel undergraduate and graduate students, though...
The 'Other' Students
Filipino Americans, Education, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Though the Filipino American population has increased numerically in many areas of the United States, especially since the influx of professional immigrants in the wake of the 1965 Immigration Act, their impact on schools and related educational institutions has rarely been documented and examined. The...
It Is Easy to Despair, but the Best Traits of the Human Character Are Not to Give Up, but Instead to Stand Up, Fight Back, and Save Oneself.
SHORT STORY # 32. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
One day I had a dream—to get my doctoral, or PhD degree. By that time I had a record of achievements and had no difficulties to be accepted to any university of my choice. The problem was, I was a woman, a structural engineer, and in 1980s not many women had PhDs.
With great anticipations...
Educating Elites
Class Privilege and Educational Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned 'down' toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Shaping your future through the right education institution! Get All The Support And Guidance You Need To Be A Success At Finding The Ideal University!
They say that one's success greatly depends on numerous things, such as knowledge, skills, perseverance, and determination, just to name a...
by Dr. Ruth Carr
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
College Success SecretsHow to get the Most out of School in College so you can get a Job or Work for yourself after you GraduateBy Dr. Ruth CarrThis book is about how to make sure college actually enhances your life. An increasing amount of college graduates are finding that their...
How to Survive Your Freshman Year
Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
How to Survive Your Freshman Year offers incoming college freshmen the experience, advice, and wisdom of their peers: hundreds of other students who have survived their first year of college and have something interesting to say about it. Based on interviews with hundreds of college students at every...
Higher Education and Social Class
Issues of Exclusion and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Working class groups have historically been excluded from participation in higher education. Past decades have seen an expansion of the system towards a more inclusive higher education, but participation among people from working class groups has remained persistently low. Is higher education unattractive...