Учебная литература
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Achieve high performance for all in your school. In Achieving Equity and Excellence , author Douglas Reeves outlines how to make dramatic improvements to student learning, behavior, and attendance in a single semester. Study the mindset of high-poverty, high-success schools and follow their example to implement the equitable and just practices necessary to make student success a sustainable reality. Use this resource to empower students, teachers, and administrators: Study the landmark...
| Автор | Douglas Reeves |
Teaching writing is a powerful and effective means for learning across all grade levels and disciplines. This user-friendly resource provides practical recommendations, strategies, and assessments for designing units of study that center on both narrative nonfiction and creative writing. Throughout the book, readers can complete exercises that equip them to create a comprehensive narrative unit of instruction that is ready to pilot. It also provides narrative activities, assessments, sample...
| Автор | Kathy Tuchman Glass |
A manifesto for today’s broken schools. Desegregation has failed. Schools filled with black and brown students have become plantations of social control, where the policing of behavior trumps the expanding of minds. Radical teachers and organizers in American public schools must help young people fashion an insurgency. That means, at the very least, seeing each student’s rebellion not as violation, but as communication. Jay Gillen writes with passion and compassion about...
| Автор | Jay Gillen |
By the spring of 1970, Americans were frustrated by continuing war in Vietnam and turmoil in the inner cities. Students on American college campuses opposed the war in growing numbers and joined with other citizens in ever-larger public demonstrations against the war. Some politicians—including Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, and Richard Nixon—exploited the situation to cultivate anger against students. At the University of California at Berkeley, student leaders devoted...
| Автор | Thomas W. Benson |
This title will be listed in the CBSD Fall 2019 catalog as Already Available, with the actual publication on December 4, 2018, and will be sold on a POD/NON-RETURNABLE BASIS.Akashic will promote the book to the trades, to media and bookstores in the author's region, and to media concerned with YA.This is the Third book in the Kalie Joynes Oddities series, which is the Imprint's name for it's e-firstbooks with sci-fi, horror, fantasy and YA themes. Previous titles on the Kaylie...
| Автор | Michael Mihaley |
The Arab Spring captivated the planet. Mass action overthrew Tunisia’s Ben Ali and Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. The revolutionary wave spread to the far corners of the Arab world, from Morocco to Bahrain. It seemed as if all the authoritarian states would finally be freed, even those of the Arabian Peninsula. People’s power had produced this wave, and continued to ride it out. In Libya, though, the new world order had different ideas. Social forces opposed to Muammar...
| Автор | Vijay Prashad |
South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings can be considered one of the most significant rhetorical events of the late twentieth century. The TRC called language into action, tasking it with promoting understanding among a divided people and facilitating the construction of South Africa’s new democracy. Other books on the TRC and deliberative rhetoric in contemporary South Africa emphasize the achievement of reconciliation during and in the immediate...
| Автор | Katherine Elizabeth Mack |
Alex Wheatle is an award-winning, best-selling author in the UK, published by Hachette/Little, Brown imprint, Atom.Wheatle is a British author of Jamaican descent who spent most of his youth in foster care in the UK. As a teenager he was involved in the 1981 Brixton uprising and spent 3 months in prison. His fiction is greatly influenced by his teenage experiences so carries a level of authenticity and honesty. Home Girl will definitely appeal to fans of Angie Thomas's best-selling novel,...
| Автор | Alex Wheatle |
Immanuel Kant is rarely connected to rhetoric by those who study philosophy or the rhetorical tradition. If anything, Kant is said to see rhetoric as mere manipulation and as not worthy of attention. In Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric , Scott Stroud presents a first-of-its-kind reappraisal of Kant and the role he gives rhetorical practices in his philosophy. By examining the range of terms that Kant employs to discuss various forms of communication, Stroud argues that the general thesis that...
| Автор | Scott R. Stroud |
QUESTION FOR CBSD: at pre-sales, can we discuss the price of this? Akashic continues its BLACK SHEEP YA imprint with this very strong and moving debut novel. CBSD is submitting the novel to the ABA New Voices Committee. Akashic will submit to B&N Discover Program. The author will be very active in book promotion, including visits to schools and library programs in addition to book festivals and YA book club visits. Publicize to major dailies, weeklies, literary publications, alternative...
| Автор | Chris Scofield |
Laura hat einen ganz besonderen Freund: ihren Stern. Laura erzählt ihm jeden Tag von allem, was so passiert: von Tommy, ihrem kleinen Bruder und seinem Beschütz-mich-Hund, von Sophie, ihrer Freundin, und von Mama und Papa. Sie erzählt ihm, ob sie traurig ist oder fröhlich oder ängstlich oder mutig. Und manchmal kommt der Stern mit seinem glitzernden Sternenlicht zu ihr – Dieses Hörspiel enthält die Episoden: ? Laura verirrt sich ? Ein Geschenk für Frau Federlein ? Der Unglückstag
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
The story of the struggle for Britain’s schools, and a passionate call for education as a public good. School Wars tells the story of the struggle for Britain’s education system. Established during the 1960s and based on the progressive ideal of good schools for all, the comprehensive system has over the past decades come under sustained attack from successive governments. From the poorest comprehensives to the most well-resourced independent schools, School Wars takes a forensic look at the...
| Автор | Melissa Benn |
School violence has fallen steadily for twenty years. Yet in schools throughout the United States, Annette Fuentes finds metal detectors and drug tests for aspirin, police profiling of students with no records, arbitrary expulsions, armed teachers, increased policing, and all-seeing electronic surveillance. This climate of fear has permitted the imposition of unprecedented restrictions on young people’s rights, dignity, and educational freedoms. In what many call the school-to-prison pipeline,...
| Автор | Annette Fuentes |
Written by bestselling author Ann Gravells, this is the complete go-to guide for anyone wanting to be (or working as) a teacher or trainer in the further education and skills sector, in the UK and beyond. It has all the information you need to work towards a qualification such as the Award, Certificate or Diploma in Education and Training. It is also relevant to anyone taking a Train the Trainer course, or an international teaching qualification.<br /> <br /> The book takes you...
| Автор | Ann Gravells |
Endlich können sie zusammen sein: Die 16-jährige Delilah und Oliver – ein Prinz, der buchstäblich einem Märchen entsprungen ist. Damit Oliver jedoch in der realen Welt bei Delilah sein kann, muss er den Platz mit einem normalen Jungen tauschen, der seine Rolle im Buch übernimmt. Doch das Buch wehrt sich gegen diesen heftigen Eingriff und fordert seine eigentliche Geschichte zurück. Widerwillig muss Oliver zurückkehren und die Buchwelt in Ordnung bringen – schließlich brauchen auch die Figuren...
| Автор | Джоди Пиколт |
Moya ist 18, bildhübsch, gerade mit der Schule fertig geworden – und an die große Liebe glaubt sie ganz bestimmt nicht. Trotzdem meldet ihre beste Freundin sie beim Liebesexperiment an. Moya kommt tatsächlich bis in die Endrunde, die sogar im TV ausgestrahlt wird! Vor laufenden Kameras trifft Moya auf drei Kandidaten, die Wissenschaftler als perfekte Partner für sie ausgesucht haben. Wer liegt richtig – Dr. Body, Dr. Soul oder Dr. Love? Oder findet Moya ihr Liebesglück am Ende ganz woanders?
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
There are two tax systems in our country. There is one for the employee and one for the self-employed. The employee system, due to lack of knowledge, is designed to take your wealth while the other system for the self-employed and those who know the rules is designed to create wealth and economic growth. This book was created to teach you not only the knowledge that you need in order to be in the self-employed system but to show you how to save every dollar in taxes that you possibly can...
| Автор | Courtney Epps |
Alliance for Freedom, Restoration и др.
What will it take to eradicate human trafficking in your local community? Who all must participate, and what all must be done? Community coalitions are uniquely positioned to make a difference. The Engage Together® Community Toolkit will show you how. Whether you are a concerned citizen desiring to bring collaboration to your community by starting a coalition, or whether you are an already established coalition seeking to enhance your existing efforts, this Toolkit will be a powerful resource...
| Автор | Alliance for Freedom, Restoration и др. |
In Behind the Hedges, journalist Rich Whitt focused his investigative lens on recent events at the University of Georgia, and in so doing examined the bigger story of «a sea change in how America supports its institutions of higher education.» Through interviews with many key figures in a struggle for power at UGA over the last decade, Rich examines the controversial tenure of Michael Adams as UGA president, and how this controversy led to the unprecedented split between the Board of Regents and...
| Автор | Rich Whitt |
When Silas, Rae and Parvel are captured by giants, Jesse sets out to find his friends and bring them to freedom. In the meantime, by helping the giants locate a legendary hidden treasure, the squad is released by the giants and begin to help another squad whose members have been taken by Captain Demitri. Will Jesse and his squad be able to save them without being killed or captured themselves? There’s more excitement in Books 1 and 2 of the Amarias Adventures™, «Quest for the Scorpion’s Jewel»...
| Автор | Amy Lynn Green |
In Book 2 of the Holly Jean series, Holly Jean has settled down to small-town life in Kentucky with her Granny Nanny and great-aunt Kate, while her dad is away fighting in WWII. Life on the farm is never dull, and the scorching summer of 1942 is no exception! Hard work, new pets, fun times and friends keep Holly Jean busy from daylight to dark. Add to that the welcome home party for Ben Dunn, Aunt Kate’s engagement to the local pastor, and a good old-fashioned camp meeting. Holly Jean enjoys...
| Автор | Bonnie Compton Hanson |
When Captain Demetri comes to the palace of District Two to report the death of the squad he was assigned to kill, he doesn’t realize that all four of them are still alive…and headed his way. Upon learning of the Forbidden Book that contains the quest and fate of each Youth Guard member, Jesse and Parvel realize they could use this book to help other squad members who are still alive. Obtaining the book is no easy task, and soon the group is on the run and fearing for their very lives. Can they...
| Автор | Amy Lynn Green |
“Each page captures a sense of wonder, of the vibrancy of color, the imagination of the artist, the name of the hue. Colors take life in this small picture book, perfect for small hands, in an astonishing pairing of visual intimacy and artistic joy that make this one of the most distinctive recent books on color—in English or otherwise.” —Papertigers.org This book truly did take a village of artists, scattered all around mountain villages in the beautiful...
| Автор | Cynthia Weill |
Oral Communication in the Disciplines: A Resource for Teacher Development and Training is the first of its kind to provide a clear and straightforward strategic framework to guide teachers as they incorporate oral communication activities into their courses. This all-encompassing empirically and theoretically grounded book helps to ensure that communication is not just added, but thoughtfully incorporated in meaningful, context-specific ways.
| Автор | Deanna P. Dannells |