Author: Jonathan Kozol
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307764192
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"Extraordinarily affecting....A very important book....To read and remember the stories in this book, to take them to heart, is to be called as a witness." THE BOSTON GLOBE There is no safety net for the millions of heartbroken refugees from the American Dream, scattered helplessly in any city you can name. RACHEL AND HER CHILDREN is an unforgettable record for humanity, of the desperate voices of the men, women, and especially children, and their hourly struggle for survival, homeless in America.
Rachel and Her Children
Author: Jonathan Kozol
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307764192
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"Extraordinarily affecting....A very important book....To read and remember the stories in this book, to take them to heart, is to be called as a witness." THE BOSTON GLOBE There is no safety net for the millions of heartbroken refugees from the American Dream, scattered helplessly in any city you can name. RACHEL AND HER CHILDREN is an unforgettable record for humanity, of the desperate voices of the men, women, and especially children, and their hourly struggle for survival, homeless in America.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307764192
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"Extraordinarily affecting....A very important book....To read and remember the stories in this book, to take them to heart, is to be called as a witness." THE BOSTON GLOBE There is no safety net for the millions of heartbroken refugees from the American Dream, scattered helplessly in any city you can name. RACHEL AND HER CHILDREN is an unforgettable record for humanity, of the desperate voices of the men, women, and especially children, and their hourly struggle for survival, homeless in America.
The Wheel on the School
Author: Meindert DeJong
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780812427790
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Six schoolchildren bring the storks back to their little Dutch village.
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780812427790
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Six schoolchildren bring the storks back to their little Dutch village.
What Do Wheels Do All Day?
Author: April Jones Prince
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618563074
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The weels push, race, stroll, fly, whiz, and spin all day long.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618563074
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The weels push, race, stroll, fly, whiz, and spin all day long.
The Wheels on the School Bus
Author: Mary-Alice Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780545037617
Category : Children's songs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Text adapted from the traditional song describes how students and staff ride the bus to school.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780545037617
Category : Children's songs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Text adapted from the traditional song describes how students and staff ride the bus to school.
Walden on Wheels
Author: Ken Ilgunas
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054402883X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Inspired by Thoreau, Ilgunas set out on a Spartan path to pay off $32,000 in undergraduate student loans by scrubbing toilets and making beds in Alaska. Determined to graduate debt-free after enrolling in graduate school, he lived in an Econoline van in a campus parking lot, saving--and learning--much about the cost of education today.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054402883X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Inspired by Thoreau, Ilgunas set out on a Spartan path to pay off $32,000 in undergraduate student loans by scrubbing toilets and making beds in Alaska. Determined to graduate debt-free after enrolling in graduate school, he lived in an Econoline van in a campus parking lot, saving--and learning--much about the cost of education today.
Library on Wheels
Author: Sharlee Glenn
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683352920
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
If you can’t bring the man to the books, bring the books to the man. Mary Lemist Titcomb (1852–1932) was always looking for ways to improve her library. As librarian at the Washington County Free Library in Maryland, Titcomb was concerned that the library was not reaching all the people it could. She was determined that everyone should have access to the library—not just adults and those who lived in town. Realizing its limitations and inability to reach the county’s 25,000 rural residents, including farmers and their families, Titcomb set about to change the library system forever with the introduction of book-deposit stations throughout the country, a children’s room in the library, and her most revolutionary idea of all—a horse-drawn Book Wagon. Soon book wagons were appearing in other parts of the country, and by 1922, the book wagon idea had received widespread support. The bookmobile was born!
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683352920
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
If you can’t bring the man to the books, bring the books to the man. Mary Lemist Titcomb (1852–1932) was always looking for ways to improve her library. As librarian at the Washington County Free Library in Maryland, Titcomb was concerned that the library was not reaching all the people it could. She was determined that everyone should have access to the library—not just adults and those who lived in town. Realizing its limitations and inability to reach the county’s 25,000 rural residents, including farmers and their families, Titcomb set about to change the library system forever with the introduction of book-deposit stations throughout the country, a children’s room in the library, and her most revolutionary idea of all—a horse-drawn Book Wagon. Soon book wagons were appearing in other parts of the country, and by 1922, the book wagon idea had received widespread support. The bookmobile was born!
School on Wheels
Author: Karl Schuessler
Publisher: Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
ISBN: 9780919783461
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Account of the mobile school operated in rail cars on the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific lines in northern Ontario, by Fred Sloman and others from 1926 to 1967.
Publisher: Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
ISBN: 9780919783461
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Account of the mobile school operated in rail cars on the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific lines in northern Ontario, by Fred Sloman and others from 1926 to 1967.
Spinning Wheels
Author: Frederick M. Hess
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815719957
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Almost everyone agrees that America's urban schools are a mess. But while this agreement has fostered widespread support for aggressive reform, Frederick Hess argues that much of what ails urban education is actually the result of continuous or fragmentary reform. Hess explains that political incentives drive school superintendents to promote reforms--to demonstrate that they are "making a difference." Superintendents have to do this quickly, both because their tenure is usually three years or less and because urban communities are anxious to see educational improvement. However, the nature of urban school districts makes it very difficult to demonstrate concrete short-term improvement. The result is what he terms "policy churn," which distracts teachers and principals from efforts to refine classroom teaching while seldom resulting in successful long-term changes. Hess argues that policymakers have misallocated resources by pursuing the "right" structure or the "best" pedagogy while paying insufficient attention to the more mundane--and more important--questions of how to implement, refine, and sustain a particular approach in their particular district. Hess explains that previous research on high-performing schools suggests that the best schools are characterized by focus and by an ability to develop expertise in specific approaches to teaching and learning. To help educators and policymakers adopt and nurture a focused agenda, he recommends institutional changes that increase the effectiveness of performance outcomes and reduce the incentives to emphasize symbolic reform.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815719957
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Almost everyone agrees that America's urban schools are a mess. But while this agreement has fostered widespread support for aggressive reform, Frederick Hess argues that much of what ails urban education is actually the result of continuous or fragmentary reform. Hess explains that political incentives drive school superintendents to promote reforms--to demonstrate that they are "making a difference." Superintendents have to do this quickly, both because their tenure is usually three years or less and because urban communities are anxious to see educational improvement. However, the nature of urban school districts makes it very difficult to demonstrate concrete short-term improvement. The result is what he terms "policy churn," which distracts teachers and principals from efforts to refine classroom teaching while seldom resulting in successful long-term changes. Hess argues that policymakers have misallocated resources by pursuing the "right" structure or the "best" pedagogy while paying insufficient attention to the more mundane--and more important--questions of how to implement, refine, and sustain a particular approach in their particular district. Hess explains that previous research on high-performing schools suggests that the best schools are characterized by focus and by an ability to develop expertise in specific approaches to teaching and learning. To help educators and policymakers adopt and nurture a focused agenda, he recommends institutional changes that increase the effectiveness of performance outcomes and reduce the incentives to emphasize symbolic reform.
Bears
Author: Stan & Jan Berenstain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780394809670
Category : Bears
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A collection of children's books on the subject of bears.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780394809670
Category : Bears
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A collection of children's books on the subject of bears.
The Haunted Bookshop
Author: Christopher Morley
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612192254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Volumes disappear and reappear on the shelves, but the ghosts of literature aren’t the only mysterious visitors in Roger Mifflin’s haunted bookshop. Mifflin, who hawked books out of the back of his van in Christopher Morley’s beloved Parnassus on Wheels, has finally settled down with his own secondhand bookstore in Brooklyn. There, he and his wife, Helen, are content to live and work together, prescribing literature to those who hardly know how much they need it. When Aubrey Gilbert, a young advertising man, visits the shop, he quickly falls under the spell of Mifflin’s young assistant, Titania. But something is amiss in the bookshop, something Mifflin is too distracted to notice, and Gilbert has no choice but to take the young woman’s safety into his own hands. Her life—and the Mifflins’—may depend on it. With a deep respect for the art of bookselling, and as much flair for drama as romance, Christopher Morley has crafted a lively, humorous tale for book lovers everywhere.
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612192254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Volumes disappear and reappear on the shelves, but the ghosts of literature aren’t the only mysterious visitors in Roger Mifflin’s haunted bookshop. Mifflin, who hawked books out of the back of his van in Christopher Morley’s beloved Parnassus on Wheels, has finally settled down with his own secondhand bookstore in Brooklyn. There, he and his wife, Helen, are content to live and work together, prescribing literature to those who hardly know how much they need it. When Aubrey Gilbert, a young advertising man, visits the shop, he quickly falls under the spell of Mifflin’s young assistant, Titania. But something is amiss in the bookshop, something Mifflin is too distracted to notice, and Gilbert has no choice but to take the young woman’s safety into his own hands. Her life—and the Mifflins’—may depend on it. With a deep respect for the art of bookselling, and as much flair for drama as romance, Christopher Morley has crafted a lively, humorous tale for book lovers everywhere.