The Make Or Break Year

Author : Emily Krone Phillips
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620973243
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Make-or-Break Year written by Emily Krone Phillips and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Bestseller An entirely fresh approach to ending the high school dropout crisis is revealed in this groundbreaking chronicle of unprecedented transformation in a city notorious for its "failing schools" In eighth grade, Eric thought he was going places. But by his second semester of freshman year at Hancock High, his D's in Environmental Science and French, plus an F in Mr. Castillo's Honors Algebra class, might have suggested otherwise. Research shows that students with more than one semester F during their freshman year are very unlikely to graduate. If Eric had attended Hancock—or any number of Chicago's public high schools—just a decade earlier, chances are good he would have dropped out. Instead, Hancock's new way of responding to failing grades, missed homework, and other red flags made it possible for Eric to get back on track. The Make-or-Break Year is the largely untold story of how a simple idea—that reorganizing schools to get students through the treacherous transitions of freshman year greatly increases the odds of those students graduating—changed the course of two Chicago high schools, an entire school system, and thousands of lives. Marshaling groundbreaking research on the teenage brain, peer relationships, and academic performance, journalist turned communications expert Emily Krone Phillips details the emergence of Freshman OnTrack, a program-cum-movement that is translating knowledge into action—and revolutionizing how teachers grade, mete out discipline, and provide social, emotional, and academic support to their students. This vivid description of real change in a faulty system will captivate anyone who cares about improving our nation's schools; it will inspire educators and families to reimagine their relationships with students like Eric, and others whose stories affirm the pivotal nature of ninth grade for all young people. In a moment of relentless focus on what doesn't work in education and the public sphere, Phillips's dramatic account examines what does.

Author : Emily Krone Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781620973233
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make-or-Break Year written by Emily Krone Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pam Glynn, a no-nonsense daughter of immigrants, became the principal of Hancock High School, the students were disengaged, not headed toward college, and the staff was dispirited, detached, and even mutinous. Yet before long, Glynn and others managed to turn one of the state's worst-performing high schools into one of Chicago's best. The Make-or-Break Year weaves together stirring accounts of students and educators with cutting-edge research on the pivotal nature of ninth grade, narrating a riveting story of real change happening within a faulty system.

Author : Mike Berners-Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108335942
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There Is No Planet B written by Mike Berners-Lee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics - the list of concerns seems endless. But what is most pressing, what are the knock-on effects of our actions, and what should we do first? Do we all need to become vegetarian? How can we fly in a low-carbon world? Should we frack? How can we take control of technology? Does it all come down to population? And, given the global nature of the challenges we now face, what on Earth can any of us do? Fortunately, Mike Berners-Lee has crunched the numbers and plotted a course of action that is practical and even enjoyable. There is No Planet B maps it out in an accessible and entertaining way, filled with astonishing facts and analysis. For the first time you'll find big-picture perspective on the environmental and economic challenges of the day laid out in one place, and traced through to the underlying roots - questions of how we live and think. This book will shock you, surprise you - and then make you laugh. And you'll find practical and even inspiring ideas for what you can actually do to help humanity thrive on this – our only – planet.

Author : Dave MacLeod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956428134
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make Or Break written by Dave MacLeod and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Wolfgang Gullich said, getting strong is easy, getting strong without getting injured is hard . Sooner or later, nearly all climbers get injured and it will be injuries that ultimately dictate how far you get in climbing, if you let them. Unfortunately, the data shows it takes over a decade just to get small proportions of medical research adopted in regular practice. Sourcing reliable and up to date advice on preventing and treating finger, elbow, shoulder and other climbing injuries is challenging to say the least. You need to be the expert, because there are so many strands of knowledge and practice to pull together to stay healthy as a climber, and no single source of advice to cover all of these. The book draws together both the cutting edge of peer reviewed sports medicine research, and the subtle concepts of changing your climbing habits and routine to prevent and successfully recover from injuries. It is a handbook on how to take care of yourself as a lifelong climbing athlete. By spanning the fields of climbing coaching, physiotherapy, sports medicine and behavioural science, it goes beyond the general advice on treating symptoms offered by sports medicine textbooks and into much more detail on technique and habits specific to climbing than the existing climbing literature base. You will learn how your current climbing habits are already causing your future injuries and what you can do to change that. If you are already injured, it will prevent you from prolonging your injury with the wrong climbing habits and rehabilitation choices. You will learn how the ingredients of prevention and good recovery come from wildly different sources and how you have been using only a fraction of them. Fully referenced throughout, the practical advice for diagnosis, rehabilitation and prevention of climbing injuries is drawn from up to date peer reviewed sports medicine research.

Author : Paul D. Borden
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426745028
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make Or Break Your Church in 365 Days written by Paul D. Borden and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear plans for the daily tasks of effectively leading a congregation.

Author : May-Lan Tan
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566895359
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Things to Make and Break written by May-Lan Tan and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These eleven short fictions evoke the microcosmic worlds every human relationship contains. A woman is captivated by the stories her boyfriend tells about his exes. A faltering artist goes on a date with a married couple. Twin brothers work out their rivalry via the girl next door. In every one of these tales, we meet indelibly real and unforgettable people, a cast of rebels and dreamers trying to transform themselves, forge new destinies, or simply make the moment last.

Author : Paul Tough
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780544944480
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Years that Matter Most written by Paul Tough and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of How Children Succeed returns with a devastatingly powerful, mind-changing inquiry into higher education in the U.S.

Author : Giles Slade
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674043758
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Made to Break written by Giles Slade and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. Giles Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.

Author : CATHERINE. BENNETTO
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781471192609
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make Or Break written by CATHERINE. BENNETTO and published by . This book was released on 2030-12-31 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Janet McNaughton
Publisher : St. John's, Nfld. : Tuckamore Books
ISBN 13 : 9781895387933
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make Or Break Spring written by Janet McNaughton and published by St. John's, Nfld. : Tuckamore Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1945, as the war ends in Europe, fifteen-year-old Evelyn learns the truth about her missing father and to accept the unavoidable change to her life.