Labaree, David F.
Summary: Read the news about America's colleges and universities - rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administrators - and it's clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labaree reminds us in this book, it's always been that way. And that's exactly why it has become the most successful and sought-after source of learning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378 LABSummary: In 1900, 6% of America's children graduated from high school; by 1945, 51% graduated and 40% went on to college. This program recalls how massive immigration, child labor laws, and the explosive growth of cities fueled school attendance and transformed public education. Also explored are the impact of John Dewey's progressive ideas as well as the effects on students of controversial IQ tests,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In the aftermath of the Revolution, a newly independent America confronted one of its most daunting challenges: how to build a united nation out of thirteen disparate colonies. This program profiles the passionate crusade launched by Thomas Jefferson and continued by Noah Webster, Horace Mann, and others to create a common system of tax-supported schools that would mix people of different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Markus, Peter
Summary: For over twenty years, award-winning short story writer and novelist Peter Markus has made his living teaching creative writing in the Detroit Public Schools. As a teaching artist with Detroit's longest enduring literary non-profit — InsideOut Literary Arts Project — Markus has inspired thousands of students to become believers in the power of words, armed with nothing but an ordinary pencil —...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dzanc Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARKUS, PETER MARSummary: The final episode of the Career Advantage series reviews several methods for remaining focused and positive while searching for work opportunities. It demonstrates ongoing self-assessments for building and managing a successful career, and emphasizes the development of one-year, ten-year, and lifetime goals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Patterson, James
Summary: "In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade "Grandma's Boy" whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PATSummary: In theory, America's public schools provide an equal-opportunity education for children of all walks of life. Unfortunately, in practice it does not always work out that way. For many families, charter schools and voucher systems are providing what they feel are the keys to better education. This program looks at these alternatives at the Countryside Charter School and elsewhere, demonstrating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Meier, Deborah
Summary: "A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracy MacArthur award-winning educator, reformer, and author Deborah Meier draws on her fifty-plus years of experience in education to argue that the purpose of universal education is to provide young people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371 MEIPublic Enemy (Musical group)
Contents: You're gonna get yours -- Public enemy no. 1 -- Rebel without a pause -- Bring the noise -- Don't believe the hype -- Prophets of rage -- Black steel in the hour of chaos (single edit) -- Fight the power -- Welcome to the terrordome -- 911 is a joke -- Brothers gonna work it out -- Can't do nuttin' for ya man -- Can't truss it -- Shut em down -- By the time I get to Arizona -- Hazy shade of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Def Jam Recordings 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP PUBLIRavitch, Diane
Summary: "An in-depth look at the failed efforts to privatize public schools and the victories of those who have fought to save America's public school system"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.01 RAVGraves, Kerry A.
Summary: Discusses the school life of Northern children at the time of the Civil War, including lessons, books, teachers, examinations, and special days. Includes activities and sidebars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Earth Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 370.973 GRASchneider, Jack
Summary: "A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door is about the right-wing agenda to dismantle public education, assessing the myriads of ways our education system is being eroded with privatization measures that exacerbate inequality"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.973 SCHSummary: In 1983, the Reagan Administration's report, A Nation at Risk, shattered public confidence in America's school system and sparked a new wave of education reform. This program explores the impact of the "free market" experiments that ensued, from vouchers and charter schools to privatization-all with the goal of meeting tough new academic standards. Today, the debate rages on: do these diverse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Public Enemy (Musical group)
Contents: Resurrection -- He got game -- Unstoppable -- Shake your booty -- Is your god a dog -- House of the rising sun -- Revelation 33 1/3 revolutions -- Game face -- Politics of the sneaker pimps -- What you need is Jesus -- Super agent -- Go cat go -- Sudden death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Def Jam Recordings 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC HENew York Public Library
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 803 NEWPublic Enemy (Musical group)
Contents: Lost at birth -- Rebirth -- Nighttrain -- Can't truss it -- I don't wanna be called yo niga -- How to kill a radio consultant -- By the time I get to Arizona -- Move! -- 1 million bottlebags -- More news at 11 -- Shut em down -- A letter to the NY Post -- Get the f -- outta Dodge -- Bring tha noize (w/Anthrax).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP PUBHolland, John
Summary: This practical resource provides everything you need to enable your school to provide the best possible support for pupils and staff who have suffered a loss or bereavement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 HOLGeneral Public (Musical group)
Contents: Hot you're cool -- Tenderness -- Anxious -- Never you done that -- Burning bright -- As a matter of fact -- Are you leading me on? -- Day-to-day -- Where's the line? -- General public.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: I.R.S. 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GENMICHIGAN PUBLIC DOMAIN COMM.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1914
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 PUBMaloney, Brenna
Summary: "This book shows the many ways people learn around the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J371 MALAchor, Shawn.
Summary: Shawn Achor, a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, presents a seven-step guide to achieving true happiness and gratification in the workplace. Here, listeners will discover that happiness is one of the biggest factors in becoming successful and that with Achor's advice, they will easily be able to find that happiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 158.7 ACHGibbs, Stuart
Summary: "Ben Ripley is recruited for a magnet school with a focus on science--but he's entirely shocked to discover that the school is actually a front for a junior C.I.A. academy. Ben becomes an undercover agent and goes on his first assignment in this graphic novel adaptation of SPY SCHOOL"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GIBColgan, Jenny
Summary: "It's gloriously sunny in Cornwall as the school year starts at the little boarding school by the sea. Maggie, the newest teacher at Downey House, is determined to make her mark. She's delighted to leave the city behind and start her new teaching job, but what will it mean for her now-long-distance relationship with her safe, dependable boyfriend, Stan? Simone is excited and nervous: she's won...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COLColgan, Jenny
Summary: "Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast. It was there that she found her footing as a teacher and fell in love with her colleague David--the two great anchors of her life. But these days Maggie's feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024