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Publisher
SteinerBooks, an imprint of Anthroposophic Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"What does a healthy, successful school look like? Is it is all about measurable outcomes, test scores, and pass/fail grades set by the government? Can learning be quantified in short-term measurements or does real learning take years to manifest in a career or biography. All seem to agree that a healthy school is also a community and that community depends on the quality of relationships--chiefly the relationships among students, teachers, and parents....
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English
Description
Early in the twentieth century, Progressives quietly transformed America's schools. A hundred years later, they've succeeded beyond their wildest hopes. Behind a smokescreen of "preparing students for the new industrial economy," early Progressives had political control in mind. America's original schools didn't just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom. They assigned the classics, inspired...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The purpose of this research is to identify what teachers, from a specific school district and who are already working with aspects of sustainable education, need to be effective sustainable educators. This paper describes and analyzes a case study, consisting of a group of Bend-La Pine School District teachers located in the Central Oregon area of the United States of America. The researcher developed and facilitated a three-hour workshop, which...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The purpose of this study was to address three primary questions, (1) What role does the conceptualization of place play between cultures and generations within The Dalles, Oregon; (2) How has colonization, migration and interscalar relationships with place--from the local to global--challenged and changed the way in which education and youth leadership activities can and should be implemented in The Dalles community; and (3) Within the diverse histories...
Author
Language
English
Description
Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum.
Here is the poignant journey of a “minority student” who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation — from his past, his...
Here is the poignant journey of a “minority student” who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation — from his past, his...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The United States is in the midst of a profound transformation the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Industrial Revolution, when America's classical colleges adapted to meet the needs of an emerging industrial economy. Today, as the world shifts to an increasingly interconnected knowledge economy, the intersecting forces of technological innovation, globalization, and demographic change create vast new challenges, opportunities, and uncertainties....
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English
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Reading, Writing, and Your First Grader PARENTS: Before we present a selection of poems and stories for your child, we want to address you directly. This section, Reading, Writing, and Your First Grader, is intended to help you understand how children are--or should be--taught to read and write in a good first-grade classroom, and to suggest a few ways that you can help at home. The first section below, Teaching Children to Read: The Need for a Balanced...
19) Ramona the brave
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Six-year-old Ramona tries to cope with an unsympathetic first-grade teacher. In this touching and funny story, the ebullient Ramona, feeling brave and grown-up, enters first grade. Quickly she finds that her new teacher, Mrs. Griggs, appears perplexed by pupils who like to be different. Since Ramona cannot help being different, clearly the two are incompatible. Nevertheless, Ramona can be counted on to keep things lively. Enraged when Susan copies...