Lessons Of Hope

Author : Joel Klein
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062268662

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Lessons of Hope by Joel Klein Pdf

New York Times Bestseller (Education) The Economist Best Books of the Year Selection In this revealing and provocative memoir, the former chancellor of the New York City schools offers the behind-the-scenes story of the city’s dramatic campaign to improve public education and an inspiring blueprint for national reform. In 2002 New York City’s newly elected mayor, Michael Bloomberg, made a historic announcement: his administration had won control of the city’s school system in a first step toward reversing its precipitous decline. In a controversial move, he appointed Joel Klein, an accomplished lawyer from outside the education establishment, to lead this ambitious campaign. Lessons of Hope is Klein’s inside account of his eight-year mission of improvement: demanding accountability, eliminating political favoritism, and battling a powerful teachers union that seemed determined to protect a status quo that didn’t work for kids. Klein’s initiatives resulted in more school choice, higher graduation rates, and improved test scores. The New York City model is now seen as a national standard for meaningful school reform. But the journey was not easy. Klein faced resistance and conflict at every turn. Lessons of Hope lays bare the problems plaguing public education and shows how they can be solved. At its core lies Klein’s personal story: his humble upbringing in Brooklyn and Queens, and the key role that outstanding public school teachers played in nurturing his success. Engaging and illuminating, Lessons of Hope is essential reading for anyone concerned about the future of American public education.

Author : Jo Kadlecek
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441212280

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A Desperate Faith by Jo Kadlecek Pdf

Why did Jesus spend forty days on earth after his death when he could have returned home to the majesty of heaven? And out of all the people on the planet at that time who could have helped him get a major religious movement off the ground, why did he seek out those who had run the other way when he was crucified? In this fascinating book, Jo Kadlecek shows readers how the disciples who saw Jesus after his death were changed from sometimes bumbling scaredy-cats to pillars of the Christian faith. She invites readers to experience their own transformation in every part of life--relationships, jobs, finances, family, and more--as they come to a new understanding and appreciation of the basis of the faith: the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Author : Elizabeth Suneby
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781771385770

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Razia's Ray of Hope by Elizabeth Suneby Pdf

Razia dreams of getting an education, but in her small village in Afghanistan, girls haven’t been allowed to attend school for many years. When a new girls’ school opens in the village, a determined Razia must convince her father and oldest brother that educating her would be best for her, their family and their community.

Author : Caroline Day
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1838772715

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Hope Nicely's Lessons for Life by Caroline Day Pdf

In learning to write about her life, will Hope Nicely finally learn how to live it?

Author : Maude Barlow
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773059341

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Still Hopeful by Maude Barlow Pdf

“Canada’s best-known voice of dissent.” — CBC “It’s time we listened to the Maude Barlows of the world.” — CNN In this timely book, Barlow counters the prevailing atmosphere of pessimism that surrounds us and offers lessons of hope that she has learned from a lifetime of activism. She has been a linchpin in three major movements in her life: second-wave feminism, the battle against free trade and globalization, and the global fight for water justice. From each of these she draws her lessons of hope, emphasizing that effective activism is not really about the goal, rather it is about building a movement and finding like-minded people to carry the load with you. Barlow knows firsthand how hard fighting for change can be. But she also knows that change does happen and that hope is the essential ingredient.

Author : Scott C. Hammond PhD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781532004018

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Lessons of the Lost by Scott C. Hammond PhD Pdf

The wilderness can be unforgiving and dangerous, yet fill our souls with awe and wonder. It can overwhelm us with beauty and stun us with fear, lift our spirits to the highest highs and send us crashing to the floor of creation. The wilderness is a classroom where we learn to survive, thrive and sometimes die. At some point in our lives, we have all been lost in a wilderness of some kindwhether literal or metaphoricalwithout any direction on how to find our way back home. Some have faced survival decisions in community disasters or personal trauma. Some have been lost in work, wandered in careers and professions. Some have been lost in relationships, crippling addictions, health challenges, or grief. Scott Hammond, a volunteer search and rescuer, knows that people who have been lostin the wilderness, in the workplace, or in lifecan teach us how to go beyond survival and thrive, regardless of the nature of our personal wildernesses. Through his experience rescuing others and real-life stories, Hammond provides valuable lessons designed to help those who are lost. These narratives communicate that small things matter, that no one is ever lost alone, and that movement creates opportunity. Being lost is not a geographic problem, but a mental and spiritual problem. Lost people may be deprived of the basics of food, water, and shelter, but they are first deprived of meaning. Restoring that meaning is the first step toward hope, and hope is the beacon that leads you home.

Author : Eileen McNerney
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809143437

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A Story of Suffering and Hope by Eileen McNerney Pdf

"Sister Eileen McNerney, CSJ, moved to Santa Ana, California, in 1992. Eighty percent of Santa Ana's 370,000 residents are Spanish-speaking, and over fifty percent were born outside the United States. With the heart of an active contemplative, Sister Eileen observed the woundedness of the city's youth - their pessimism and hopelessness, the deep pits of trouble that they had dug for themselves early in fife. She mobilized support and started a youth center. But who is it that ministers to whom there? Is it the youth surrounded by love who are healed, or is it their love that transforms her?" "At once uplifting and shocking, this book tells the story of the multi-award-winning Taller San Jose (St. Joseph's Workshop), the youths whose lives it touches, and its dedicated founder. All will be inspired and challenged by the love and determination of the Sisters of St. Joseph who make it work."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Michael R. Wear
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780718082338

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Reclaiming Hope by Michael R. Wear Pdf

Now with a new afterword from the author. "An important and extremely timely book...Get it, read it, and talk to others about it." --Timothy Keller In this unvarnished account of faith inside the world’s most powerful office, Michael Wear provides unprecedented insight into the highs and lows of working as a Christian in government. Reclaiming Hope is an insider’s view of the most controversial episodes of the Obama administration, from the president’s change of position on gay marriage and the transformation of religious freedom into a partisan idea, to the administration’s failure to find common ground on abortion and the bitter controversy over who would give the benediction at the 2012 inauguration. The book is also a passionate call for faith in the public square, particularly for Christians to see politics as a means of loving one’s neighbor and of pursuing justice for all. Engrossing, illuminating, and at time provocative, Reclaiming Hope changes the way we think about the relationship of politics and faith. "A pre-Trump book with serious questions for our politics in the age of Trump...More necessary than ever before." -- Sojourners "Should be read by Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and all who are concerned by the state of our politics.” --Kirsten Powers, USA Today columnist and CNN political analyst "Reclaiming Hope will certainly give you a fresh perspective on politics--but, more importantly, it may also give you a fresh perspective on faith.”--Andy Stanley, senior pastor of North Point Ministries "An important and extremely timely book...Get it, read it, and talk to others about it." --Timothy Keller, author of Reason for God "An important contribution in this age of religious and political polarization." --J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy "A lifeline for these times." --Ann Voskamp, author of One Thousand Gifts and The Broken Way “We can hope, and this book can help us.” --Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention

Author : Tzvetan Todorov,Cvetan Todorov
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691171425

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Hope and Memory by Tzvetan Todorov,Cvetan Todorov Pdf

Both a political history and a moral critique of the twentieth century, this is a personal and impassioned book from one of Europe's most outstanding intellectuals. Identifying totalitarianism as the major innovation of the twentieth century, Tzvetan Todorov examines the struggle between this system and democracy and its effects on human life and consciousness. Totalitarianism managed to impose itself because, more than any other political system, it played on people's need for the absolute: it fed their hope to endow life with meaning by taking part in the construction of a paradise on earth. As a result, millions of people lost their lives in the name of a higher good. While democracy eventually won the struggle against totalitarianism in much of the world, democracy itself is not immune to the pitfall of do-goodery: moral correctness at home and atomic or "humanitarian" bombs abroad. Todorov explores the history of the past century not only by analyzing its spectacular political conflicts but also by offering moving profiles of several individuals who, at great personal cost, resisted the strictures of the communist and Nazi regimes. Some--Margarete Buber-Neumann, David Rousset, Primo Levi, and Germaine Tillion--were deported to concentration camps. Others--Vasily Grossman and Romain Gary--fought courageously in World War II. All became exemplary witnesses who described with great lucidity and humanity what they had endured. This book preserves the memory of the past as we move into the twenty-first century--arguing eloquently that we must place the past at the service of a just future.

Author : Rich DeVos
Publisher : J. Countryman
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0849957079

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Hope from My Heart by Rich DeVos Pdf

The life-changing experience of receiving a heart transplant spawned a new awareness in cofounder of Amway Rich DeVos. In "Hope from My Heart", he imparts the fruit of this awareness in ten motivational lessons for life on such subjects as persistence, confidence, respect, accountability and faith.

Author : Herbert Kohl
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781459604216

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The Discipline of Hope (Large Print 16pt) by Herbert Kohl Pdf

The first paperback edition of the master educator's insights from four decades in the classroom. The Discipline of Hope chronicles veteran educator Herb Kohl's love affair with teaching since his first encounter forty years ago, chronicled in his now-classic 36 Children. Beginning with his years in New York public schools and continuing throughout his four decades of working with students from kindergarten through college across the country, Kohl has been an ardent advocate of the notion that every student can learn and every teacher must find creative ways to facilitate that learning. In The Discipline of Hope he distills the major lessons of an attentive lifetime in the classroom.

Author : Diane M. Komp
Publisher : Zondervan Publishing Company
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0310379806

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A Child Shall Lead Them by Diane M. Komp Pdf

Sometimes life's most important lessons come from the least expected sources. In a story of love and hope, the author of A Window to Heaven presents surprisingly joyful and life-affirming insights gleaned from fragile, young cancer patients.

Author : George P. Anderson,Andrew Barone
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : IND:30000103796474

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Lessons from the Light by George P. Anderson,Andrew Barone Pdf

A medium offers a readings designed to answer questions about faith, life, spirituality, and the afterlife.

Author : Richard M. DeVos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Heart
ISBN : OCLC:1035605272

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Hope from My Heart by Richard M. DeVos Pdf

Author : Dom Starsia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1587677601

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I Hope You Will Be Very Happy: Leadership Lessons From a Lifetime in Lacrosse by Dom Starsia Pdf

"I first thought of playing lacrosse in the fall of my freshman year at Brown in 1970. Coming up on 50 years in the game, I have had a number of friends and fans who told me I needed to write a book about a life in the game. Never quite convinced that my life was that interesting to begin with, I have become preoccupied with sharing my experience with those who might value and benefit from some practical observations. What you will find within here are letters to players, parents and fans, a series on leadership that applies to both athletes and coaches, essays on the zone defense that carried us to the National Championship in 2011, a family situation that provided an opportunity to make strategic adjustments that led to a Championship in 2003, the language of lacrosse, the value of being a great passer, and many others that recount personal stories and life lessons that have shaped my career. My goal is that you will find something here that will help you on your journey." - Dom Starsia