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Stand for the best
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Thomas M. Bloch |
Thirteen years ago, Tom Bloch was CEO of H&R Block, the groundbreaking tax organization. The son of the company's founder, he was a happily married 41-year-old executive, but something was missing fr… |
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Closing chapters
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Thomas G. Welsh |
"Closing Chapters attempts to explain the disintegration of urban parochial schools in Youngstown, Ohio, a onetime industrial center that lost all but one of its eighteen Catholic parochial elementar… |
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Reading time
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Catherine Compton-Lilly |
While teachers cannot travel back in time to visit their students at earlier ages, they can draw on the rich sets of experiences and knowledge that students bring to classrooms. In her latest book, C… |
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Urban education
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Karen S. Gallagher |
"Many factors complicate the education of urban students. Among them have been issues related to population density; racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity; poverty; racism (individual an… |
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For White folks who teach in the hood ... and the rest of y'all too
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Christopher Emdin |
"Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education. Drawing on his own experience o… |
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Code-switching
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Rebecca S. Wheeler |
xvi, 197 p. : 26 cm |
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After America's midlife crisis
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Michael Gecan |
For several decades Michael Gecan has worked with groups that serve their communities when conservative get-tough rhetoric and endless liberal programs do not cut it.
A Chicagoan by birth and a s… |
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Making Schools Work
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Marcus A. Foster,Alex Haley |
Marcus Foster first gained notoriety for his spectacularly successful transformation of two of Philadelphia’s worst schools. He brought new school pride and enthusiasm to the students and faculty, br… |
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