Education In The School Of Dreams

Author : Jennifer Lynn Peterson
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822354411

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Education in the School of Dreams by Jennifer Lynn Peterson Pdf

In the earliest years of cinema, travelogues were a staple of variety film programs in commercial motion picture theaters. These short films, also known as "scenics," depicted tourist destinations and exotic landscapes otherwise inaccessible to most viewers. Scenics were so popular that they were briefly touted as the future of film. But despite their pervasiveness during the early twentieth century, travelogues have been overlooked by film historians and critics. In Education in the School of Dreams, Jennifer Lynn Peterson recovers this lost archive. Through innovative readings of travelogues and other nonfiction films exhibited in the United States between 1907 and 1915, she offers fresh insights into the aesthetic and commercial history of early cinema and provides a new perspective on the intersection of American culture, imperialism, and modernity in the nickelodeon era. Peterson describes the travelogue's characteristic form and style and demonstrates how imperialist ideologies were realized and reshaped through the moving image. She argues that although educational films were intended to legitimate filmgoing for middle-class audiences, travelogues were not simply vehicles for elite ideology. As a form of instructive entertainment, these technological moving landscapes were both formulaic and also wondrous and dreamlike. Considering issues of spectatorship and affect, Peterson argues that scenics produced and disrupted viewers' complacency about their own place in the world.

Author : Edward Humes
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780544821668

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School Of Dreams by Edward Humes Pdf

What is the price of an education at a top public high school? Whitney High delivers everything we ask of a school: a love of learning, a sense of mission, and SAT scores to die for. But there are unintended consequences to attending the school of our dreams, as author Edward Humes found during his year inside this world of high achievement and high pressure. Students work nearly around the clock, building futures to please parents as much as themselves. Their drug of choice? Caffeine. Their goal? Getting into a top college. Their biggest fear? Not living up to their families' stratospheric expectations. But what these kids have going for them is the extraordinary community within Whitney High-- a school with doors open seven days a week, where teachers love teaching and the students linger long after the school day ends.

Author : Janet Wilson
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781926920412

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Shannen and the Dream for a School by Janet Wilson Pdf

The true story of Shannen Koostachin and the people of Attawapiskat First Nation, a native Cree community in Northern Ontario, who have been fighting for a new school since 1979 when a fuel spill contaminated their original school building. Shannen's fight took her all the way to Parliament Hill and was taken up by children around the world. Shannen’s dream continues today with the work of the Shannen's Dream organization and those everywhere who are fighting for the rights of Aboriginal children.

Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781401395513

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The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch Pdf

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned—about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have—in this life-changing classic. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." —Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull over the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave—"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"—wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have . . . and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.

Author : Beth Zasloff,Joshua Steckel
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781595589286

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Hold Fast to Dreams by Beth Zasloff,Joshua Steckel Pdf

An “invaluable” memoir by a counselor who left the elite private-school world to help poor and working-class kids get into college (Washington Monthly). Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Award Joshua Steckel left an elite Manhattan school to serve as the first-ever college guidance counselor at a Brooklyn public high school—and has helped hundreds of disadvantaged kids gain acceptance. But getting in is only one part of the drama. This riveting work of narrative nonfiction follows the lives of ten of Josh’s students as they navigate the vast, obstacle-ridden landscape of college in America, where students for whom the stakes of education are highest find unequal access and inadequate support. Among the students we meet are Mike, who writes his essays from a homeless shelter and is torn between his longing to get away to an idyllic campus and his fear of leaving his family in desperate circumstances; Santiago, a talented, motivated, and undocumented student, who battles bureaucracy and low expectations as he seeks a life outside the low-wage world of manual labor; and Ashley, who pursues her ambition to become a doctor with almost superhuman drive—but then forges a path that challenges received wisdom about the value of an elite liberal arts education. At a time when the idea of “college for all” is hotly debated, this book uncovers, in heartrending detail, the ways the American education system fails in its promise as a ladder to opportunity—yet provides hope in its portrayal of the intelligence, resilience, and everyday heroics of young people whose potential is too often ignored. “A profound examination of the obstacles faced by low-income students . . . and the kinds of reforms needed to make higher education and the upward mobility it promises more accessible.” —Booklist

Author : Trivina Kang
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN : UOM:39015062842110

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Creating Educational Dreams by Trivina Kang Pdf

This book seeks to propose a sociological aspiration formation model that maps out how schools and families are contexts that secondary school students in Singapore navigate in order to reach their aspired educational outcome.

Author : Paul D. Houston
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452271705

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Giving Wings to Children’s Dreams by Paul D. Houston Pdf

The former director of the American Association of School Administrators outlines a coherent countervision for turning schools back into places that nurture children.

Author : Rucker C. Johnson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781541672697

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Children of the Dream by Rucker C. Johnson Pdf

An acclaimed economist reveals that school integration efforts in the 1970s and 1980s were overwhelmingly successful -- and argues that we must renew our commitment to integration for the sake of all Americans We are frequently told that school integration was a social experiment doomed from the start. But as Rucker C. Johnson demonstrates in Children of the Dream, it was, in fact, a spectacular achievement. Drawing on longitudinal studies going back to the 1960s, he shows that students who attended integrated and well-funded schools were more successful in life than those who did not -- and this held true for children of all races. Yet as a society we have given up on integration. Since the high point of integration in 1988, we have regressed and segregation again prevails. Contending that integrated, well-funded schools are the primary engine of social mobility, Children of the Dream offers a radical new take on social policy. It is essential reading in our divided times.

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141975726

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My Education by William S. Burroughs Pdf

My Education is Burroughs's last novel, first published two years before his death in 1997. It is a book of dreams, collected over several decades and as close to a memoir as we will see. The dreams cover themes from the mundane and ordinary - conversations with his friends Allen Ginsberg or Ian Sommerville, feeding his cats, procuring drugs or sex - to the erotic, bizarre and visionary. Always a rich source of imagery in Burroughs's own fiction, in this book dreams become a direct and powerful force in themselves.

Author : Cindy Blackstock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Indian children
ISBN : 1775191427

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Spirit Bear by Cindy Blackstock Pdf

Author : Jennifer Lynn Peterson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822354536

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Education in the School of Dreams by Jennifer Lynn Peterson Pdf

In the earliest years of cinema, travelogues were a staple of variety film programs in commercial motion picture theaters. These short films, also known as "scenics," depicted tourist destinations and exotic landscapes otherwise inaccessible to most viewers. Scenics were so popular that they were briefly touted as the future of film. But despite their pervasiveness during the early twentieth century, travelogues have been overlooked by film historians and critics. In Education in the School of Dreams, Jennifer Lynn Peterson recovers this lost archive. Through innovative readings of travelogues and other nonfiction films exhibited in the United States between 1907 and 1915, she offers fresh insights into the aesthetic and commercial history of early cinema and provides a new perspective on the intersection of American culture, imperialism, and modernity in the nickelodeon era. Peterson describes the travelogue's characteristic form and style and demonstrates how imperialist ideologies were realized and reshaped through the moving image. She argues that although educational films were intended to legitimate filmgoing for middle-class audiences, travelogues were not simply vehicles for elite ideology. As a form of instructive entertainment, these technological moving landscapes were both formulaic and also wondrous and dreamlike. Considering issues of spectatorship and affect, Peterson argues that scenics produced and disrupted viewers' complacency about their own place in the world.

Author : Donald Earl Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0989256138

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Boy @ the Window by Donald Earl Collins Pdf

As a preteen Black male growing up in Mount Vernon, New York, there were a series of moments, incidents and wounds that caused me to retreat inward in despair and escape into a world of imagination. For five years I protected my family secrets from authority figures, affluent Whites and middle class Blacks while attending an unforgiving gifted-track magnet school program that itself was embroiled in suburban drama. It was my imagination that shielded me from the slights of others, that enabled my survival and academic success. It took everything I had to get myself into college and out to Pittsburgh, but more was in store before I could finally begin to break from my past. "Boy @ The Window" is a coming-of-age story about the universal search for understanding on how any one of us becomes the person they are despite-or because of-the odds. It's a memoir intertwined with my own search for redemption, trust, love, success-for a life worth living. "Boy @ The Window" is about one of the most important lessons of all: what it takes to overcome inhumanity in order to become whole and human again.

Author : Nihit Mohan
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781638865452

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What School Doesn't Teach You by Nihit Mohan Pdf

What should I do ?, Who am I? and What is my purpose in this mortal realm?. These profound questions of humankind require deep thought and introspection, while living in a constantly changing world with jobs, families and relationships around us. Effectively, this book provides close to ten great ways to manage the entropy of the world, while in pursuit of purpose. The book contains conversations, anecdotes and experiences from my mentors and gurus, who have helped me in multiple facets of my life for weathering the worldly vicissitudes. Without their nurturing thoughts, It would have been unbearable and would have definitely led to performance and confidence issues. The book encompasses inferential learning based on personal experiences and multiple interactions with my mentors, gurus, friends, family and colleagues.

Author : Alexander W. Wiseman,Lisa Damaschke-Deitrick,Ericka L. Galegher,Maureen F. Park
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429782817

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Comparative Perspectives on Refugee Youth Education by Alexander W. Wiseman,Lisa Damaschke-Deitrick,Ericka L. Galegher,Maureen F. Park Pdf

This volume explores the shared expectations that education is a panacea for the difficulties that refugees and their receiving countries face. This book investigates the ways in which education is both a dream solution as well as a contested landscape for refugee families and students. Using comparative, cross-national perspectives across five continents, the editors and contributors critically analyze the educational structures, policies, and practices intended to support refugee youth transition from conflict and post-conflict zones to mainstream classrooms and schools in their new communities.

Author : Mike Anderson,Responsive Classroom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 1892989816

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The First Six Weeks of School by Mike Anderson,Responsive Classroom Pdf

This second edition of a teacher favorite features a fresh, easy-to-use layout including color coding by grade level, more support for student engagement in academics, greater emphasis on the effective use of teacher language, and a dedicated chapter on the all-important first day of school.