Education Education Murder

Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 0465014917
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death and Life of the Great American School System written by Diane Ravitch and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how school choice, misapplied standards of accountability, the No Child Left Behind mandate, and the use of a corporate model have all led to a decline in public education and presents arguments for a return to strong neighborhood schools and quality teaching.

Author : Frank Hill
Publisher : Fishcake Publications
ISBN 13 : 1909015261
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education, Education, Murder! written by Frank Hill and published by Fishcake Publications. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A break in, a robbery and a hideous murder at a local primary school. This is a vicious and unusual event in the dreary mill town of Telbury where Detective Inspector Marcus Harrison finds himself after transferring against his will from the big city. At least now he has a case to get his teeth into that will take his mind off his own troubles. But is it such a simple case? Surely these events are related, aren’t they? With such an unpopular victim, suspiciously behaving staff, blackmail, corruption and vice all being uncovered, finding the murderer may be trickier than he thought. If working through these issues wasn’t enough, the discovery of a second body throws all reasoning out of the window. Only with help from an unexpected source can DI Harrison bring the killer to justice.

Author : Robert Sam Anson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307756998
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Intentions written by Robert Sam Anson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complex, poignant exploration of racial attitudes in America, as illumined by the case of Edmund Perry. Perry, a seventeen-year-old black honors student from Harlem, was fatally shot by a young white plainclothes policeman in 1985 in an alleged mugging attempt. Perry had recently graduated from Philips Exeter Academy and was to attend Stanford University that fall. The shooting and the subsequent case, in which Edmund's elder brother Jonah, an undergraduate at Cornell University, was accused, tried, and found not guilty, drew national headlines and was the subject of heated debate among black and white communities alike. Using interviews with Perry's parents, friends, and former teachers in Harlem and at Exeter, journalist Robert Sam Anson has written a compelling account of a boy caught between two worlds and a profound portrait of the state of race in America.

Author : Bettina L. Love
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807069159
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Want to Do More Than Survive written by Bettina L. Love and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex. To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.

Author : Alston Chase
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393325560
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mind for Murder written by Alston Chase and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through Chase's compelling narration of the planning and execution of unabomber Ted Kaczynski's crimes, we come to know a thoroughly cold-blooded killer, but one whose ideas were uncannily close to those of mainstream America.

Author : Jonathan Kozol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death at an Early Age written by Jonathan Kozol and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. G. Case
Publisher : Cambridge Books
ISBN 13 : 9781613862193
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education Can Be Murder written by A. G. Case and published by Cambridge Books. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly married, former NYC police Lt. Jo Garcia leaves the city to become the first woman officer in the small upstate community of Indian Cove. When the head accountant in the local school district dies at her desk after a late night, local law enforcement assume it’s a natural death, but Jo is suspicious. When a second death occurs, Jo sets out to find the truth, despite direct orders her new Chief. As the deaths continue, Jo is threatened, then fired, but continues her investigation. Angry powerful people try to have her fired, while her new husband’s life is also put in danger. Despite the threats, Jo’s continued investigation reveals a closely guarded secret regarding sexual harassment in the school administration. Can Jo protect her husband and find the murderer?

Author : Rick Ayers
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807773484
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Empty Seat in Class written by Rick Ayers and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of a student, especially to gun violence, is a life-changing experience that occurs with more and more frequency in America’s schools. For each of these tragedies, there is a classroom and there is a teacher. Yet student death is often a forbidden subject, removed from teacher education and professional development classes where the curriculum is focused instead on learning about standards, lesson plans, and pedagogy. What can and should teachers do when the unbearable happens? An Empty Seat in Class illuminates the tragedy of student death and suggests ways of dealing and healing within the classroom community. This book weaves the story of the author’s very personal experience of a student’s fatal shooting with short pieces by other educators who have worked through equally terrible events and also includes contributions from counselors, therapists, and school principals. Through accumulated wisdom, educators are given the means and the resources to find their own path to healing their students, their communities, and themselves. “A dreadful script had been written for our school and town (and the world) but this did not mean that a new script could not be written by us. We didn’t have to subscribe to the tragic script beyond our control. It was time to rewrite.” —Lee Keylock, high school teacher, Sandy Hook, CT “This book is a meditation on the unspeakable horror and ensuing anguish that follows the death of a student. A heretofore taboo subject, teachers have much to share about their creative, improvisational praxes when shared cultural scripts in urban classrooms are unavailable. This moving and poignant text illuminates as much as it inspires. —Angela Valenzuela, Professor of Education, University of Texas, Director of the Texas Center for Education Policy “Written by the most important kind of expert, someone who has been there, Dr. Ayers candidly discusses his own struggles following the violent death of one of his students. This book serves as an invaluable guide, providing research and practical tools on how to respond to a student death and facilitate a safe space in the classroom where students can ask questions, express emotions, and process their grief. This is a must-read for every teacher, administrator, and counselor so that a school is well prepared in the event of a tragedy.” —Heidi Horsley, executive director, Open to Hope Foundation, adjunct professor, Columbia University School of Social Work “For those who teach, this book will likely evoke painful memories of loss and unrealized potential that accompanies the tragedy of any student's death. Classrooms and communities are worlds of their own, where saving one life or inspiring someone in even the most minute or momentary way can mean saving a whole world. Ayers's book honors the lives of both teachers and students. It is a book for all of us.” —Jack Weinstein, director, San Francisco Bay Area, Facing History and Ourselves

Author : Gerald Chattman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780738803234
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Education in Murder written by Gerald Chattman and published by . This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diane David, a student at Cleveland State University Law School, is found murdered in late November in a small library study room. At the scene of the crime, remnants of a paper David had been working on, apparently involving the Sioux Indian Reservation, are found clutched in her hand. Mark Connally is assigned to the homicide as his first case. He is a young detective who comes from a long line of police officers. His father was killed in the line of duty. He begins his investigation at the law school and meets a student -- Laura Mitchell -- who is instrumental in helping him throughout the case. Despite starting from very different perspectives on life in general and the law in particular, they begin to feel that there may be common ground.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309171520
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education and Delinquency written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-10-04 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Panel on Juvenile Crime: Prevention, Treatment, and Control convened a workshop on October 2, 1998, to explore issues related to educational performance, school climate, school practices, learning, student motivation and commitment to school, and their relationship to delinquency. The workshop was designed to bring together researchers and practitioners with a broad range of perspectives on the relationship between such specific issues as school safety and academic achievement and the development of delinquent behavior. Education and Delinquencyreviews recent research findings, identifies gaps in knowledge and promising areas of future research, and discusses the need for program evaluation and the integration of empirical research findings into program design.