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Summary: High Schools That Work is the nation's first large-scale effort to unite educational stakeholders at all levels with the objective of re-engaging what some have called the forgotten majority in U.S. high schools. In this interview, founding director Gene Bottoms, Ed.D., talks with Hedrick Smith about the HSTW program in general and Corbin High School, Kentucky-an exemplary case study-in...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: In Japan, where even kindergarten has an entrance exam, education begins in the womb. In this program, social psychologist Dr. Masao Miyamoto, author of Straitjacket Society; Dr. Makoto Shichida, founder of Shichida Children's Academy; the president of Keio University; and others address the true price of making the grade in a society in which only the most intelligent can thrive-or in some...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: In this interview, Anthony Alvarado, the dynamic architect of controversial principal-centered educational reforms in New York City and San Diego schools, and Eric Smith, Ed.D., who has risen to national prominence as superintendent of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Anne Arundel County school districts, join Hedrick Smith to describe their methodologies and examine the results of their policies...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Duncan, Arne

Summary: Drawing on nearly three decades in education--from his mother's after-school program on Chicago's South Side to his tenure as Secretary of Education in DC--How Schools Work follows Arne (as he insists you call him) as he takes on challenges at every turn: gangbangers in Chicago housing projects, parents who call him racist, teachers who insist they can't help poor kids, unions that refuse to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379 DUN

King Missile III

Contents: Failure -- The boy made out of bone china -- A good hard look -- Up my ass -- The little sandwich that got a guilt complex because he was the sole survivor of a horrible bus crash -- Despair -- Monks -- Gay/not gay -- Happiness -- Mr. Pomerantz -- Juniper dog -- Tour diary: Louisville -- The adventures of Planky -- I dare to hope.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Knitting Factory Records/Shimmy Disc 1998

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK King

Summary: Many people who have suffered from cardiac arrest live in constant fear of complete heart failure. This program makes clear that, for the average heart attack survivor, nothing could be further from the truth. Viewers will learn about current procedures and treatments, including exercise, state-of-the-art medications, and heart transplants, that have helped heart attack patients live healthy,...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Kingsley Area Schools (Kingsley, Mi.)

Summary: Kingsley Area Schools High School Yearbook highlighting school activities, student life, sports, drama, staff and student portraits.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kingsley Area Schools, [distributor] 0000

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Petroski, Henry.

Summary: Argues that failures in structural engineering are not necessarily due to the physical design of the structures, but instead a misunderstanding of how cultural and socioeconomic constraints would affect the structures.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 620 PET

Mufleh, Luma

Summary: "It was a wrong turn that changed everything. When Luma Mufleh--a Muslim, gay, refugee woman from hyper-conservative Jordan--stumbled upon a pick-up game of soccer in Clarkston, Georgia, something compelled her to join. The players, 11- and 12-year-olds from Liberia, Afghanistan, and Sudan, soon welcomed her as coach of their ragtag but fiercely competitive group. Drawn into their lives,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUFLEH, LUMA MUF

Summary: Amidst a gloomy climate of failing schools and the stringent No Child Left Behind legislation, some communities have created a small revolution, achieving gains with children others had given up on—with implications for schools nationwide. In this penetrating documentary, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith travels from inner city to rural town to observe how some districts and...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Olson, Elsie

Summary: "Tour some of the world's most famous haunted places in Spooky Schools and Libraries. Young readers will learn about the history, eerie occurrences, and public reactions to several spooky sites. The book also provides historic context and scientific facts that explain what is really going on. Dynamic photos and illustrative details will make readers feel as though they've just visited each...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J133.12 OLS

Summary: KIPP, the Knowledge Is Power Program, is a network of free open-enrollment college-preparatory public schools in under-resourced communities throughout the United States. In this interview, KIPP co-developer Michael Feinberg joins Hedrick Smith to discuss the program-a reform initiative created as a model for middle school reform, starting in fifth grade. The purpose of KIPP? "To provide kids...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Pastis, Stephan

Summary: Timmy Failure, founder, president, and CEO of the greatest detective agency in town, perhaps the nation, is about to crack the biggest case of his generation: a school competition to find a stolen globe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAS

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION PAS

Summary: In segment one of this interview, Kati Haycock, founder and director of The Education Trust, and Hedrick Smith discuss a range of hot topics in contemporary education: the standards movement and educational equity, No Child Left Behind, and the critical components of effective school reform, to name only three. In segment two, Mike Casserly, Ph.D., executive director of the Council of the Great...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: Despite its horrific destruction, Hurricane Katrina gave New Orleans educators the opportunity to reinvent a school system that wasn't working. This program chronicles the first official year of public school in New Orleans after the storm and the transition to the widespread use of charter schools in the city. Focusing on predominantly African-American schools, the film examines the situation...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: James Comer, M.D., M.P.H., has spent decades promoting a focus on child development as a way of improving schools. In this interview, he and Hedrick Smith analyze the Comer Process, a school- and system-wide psychosocial intervention grounded in conflict mitigation, behavior modeling, power-sharing, and all-around involvement of teachers, parents, students, and other stakeholders. "Our program...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: In this interview, Robert Slavin, Ph.D., talks with Hedrick Smith about Success for All, a comprehensive, research-based reading and math program for elementary and middle schools. The most important objective, says Dr. Slavin, "is to get every single child to be successful, every single child to master the basic curriculum, to achieve the higher-order objectives that every parent would want...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Clarence Page hosts this in-depth look at a grassroots revolution in American education: charter schools. Reasons for the movement's emergence, as well as different philosophies and methodologies, are seen in visits to several charter schools, including North Star Academy in Newark, KIPP Academy in Houston, and the Vaughn Next Century Learning Center in Los...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: As school populations become more and more diverse, racial intolerance is shoving its way to prominence. In this provocative program, five students from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds speak with candor about racial harassment at their high school in an effort to encourage teenagers to examine their own attitudes and behaviors. The greatest danger of racism is that it will go...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Lahey, Jessica

Summary: Counsels parents of school-aged children on how to overcome tendencies toward overprotectiveness to allow children to develop independence. --Publisher's description.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 LAH

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 LAH

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents Lahey

Malco, Katie

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MAL

Summary: Thanks to medical advances, renal failure has evolved from a fatal disease into a manageable condition. This program illustrates causes, physiological changes, and treatments associated with renal failure, focusing on medical strategies and lifestyle modifications that help patients cope with the ailment. Using detailed animated diagrams, the video explains both acute and chronic renal failure....

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Swans (Musical group)

Contents: Yellow CD. Miracle of love ; Black eyed dog ; The golden boy that was swallowed by the sea ; [untitled track] (2:07) ; I remember who you are ; Her ; No cruel angel ; When she breathes ; Why are we alive? ; The child's right ; [untitled track] (1:03) ; The other side of the world ; Song for dead time (mg vers.) ; Love will save you ; Blind ; Unfortunate lie (inst. vers.) ; Was he ever alive? --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Young God Records 1998

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Summary: FBI agent Jack Malone and his dedicated team of The Missing Persons Unit are on the case. These investigators track down missing persons by using advanced profiling techniques. Victims include a self-help guru, a soldier home from war, a college coach, a billionaire's family and children on a hijacked school bus.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WIT

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