The Burning School

Author : Derek W. Black
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781541774384

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Schoolhouse Burning by Derek W. Black Pdf

The full-scale assault on public education threatens not just public education but American democracy itself. Public education as we know it is in trouble. Derek W. Black, a legal scholar and tenacious advocate, shows how major democratic and constitutional developments are intimately linked to the expansion of public education throughout American history. Schoolhouse Burningis grounded in pathbreaking, original research into how the nation, in its infancy, built itself around public education and, following the Civil War, enshrined education as a constitutional right that forever changed the trajectory of our democracy. Public education, alongside the right to vote, was the cornerstone of the recovery of the war-torn nation. Today's current schooling trends -- the declining commitment to properly fund public education and the well-financed political agenda to expand vouchers and charter schools -- present a major assault on the democratic norms that public education represents and risk undermining one of the unique accomplishments of American society.

Author : Sandesh Raj
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1648056423

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The Burning School by Sandesh Raj Pdf

Kashmir is burning in the wake of terrorist activities, stone-pelting mobs and life-crippling curfews. Homes and schools have been burnt to the ground. The government is looking the other way, locals are frustrated, and the youth have gone astray. In the midst of this is the mammoth task of coaching deserving students to help them crack one of the toughest exams in the country, the IIT entrance. Too many hurdles and too less time. Who would be foolish enough to take up the challenge at a time like this?Enter Naved Baig from Lucknow, an IIM graduate and an innovative thinker; a person armed with the blazing desire to dismantle the existing network of ignorance and terror in the valley. Will he succeed? Will he beat a hasty retreat? OR Will he meet a gruesome end at the hands of evil?Come into the world where police officer's ambitions and militant rage come face to face with rugged determination and unconditional love. Find how the power of ONE can set things right for a deviant group of kids with innocence lost and revolutionise even the most negative of mindsets.The Burning School is a story about how good education, purity of thought and self-discovery can help fight for freedom from the demons of the mind and finally make one emerge victorious.

Author : Zaynab Dawood
Publisher : Kube Publishing Ltd
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780860375524

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Burning Boats by Zaynab Dawood Pdf

This is a tale of courage, faith, wisdom, tragedy, and perseverance in a small fishing hamlet called Tobay Life at the peaceful fishing hamlet of Tobay has been changed beyond recognition by the power-hungry Abbas, who uses threats and violence to fulfill his desire for control. Will the villagers' faith, courage, and wisdom be enough to win the battle and save their way of life?

Author : Paul Kropp
Publisher : High Interest Publishing Inc.
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Arson
ISBN : 9781897039335

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The Edge Is Burning by Paul Kropp Pdf

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Author : Adam Rapp
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780763654245

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33 Snowfish by Adam Rapp Pdf

"Adam Rapp’s brilliant and haunting story will break your heart. But then his words will mend it. . . . Absolutely unforgettable." – Michael Cart On the run in a stolen car with a kidnapped baby in tow, Custis, Curl, and Boobie are three young people with deeply troubled pasts and bleak futures. As they struggle to find a new life for themselves, it becomes painfully clear that none of them will ever be able to leave the past behind. Yet for one, redemption is waiting in the unlikeliest of places. With the raw language of the street and lyrical, stream-of-consciousness prose, Adam Rapp hurtles the reader into a world of lost children, a world that is not for the faint of heart. Gripping, disturbing, and starkly illuminating, his hypnotic narration captures the voices of two damaged souls - a third speaks only through drawings - to tell a story of alienation, deprivation, and ultimately, the saving power of compassion.

Author : Cal Newport
Publisher : Crown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780307715814

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How to Be a High School Superstar by Cal Newport Pdf

Do Less, Live More, Get Accepted What if getting into your reach schools didn’t require four years of excessive A.P. classes, overwhelming activity schedules, and constant stress? In How to Be a High School Superstar, Cal Newport explores the world of relaxed superstars—students who scored spots at the nation’s top colleges by leading uncluttered, low stress, and authentic lives. Drawing from extensive interviews and cutting-edge science, Newport explains the surprising truths behind these superstars’ mixture of happiness and admissions success, including: · Why doing less is the foundation for becoming more impressive. · Why demonstrating passion is meaningless, but being interesting is crucial. · Why accomplishments that are hard to explain are better than accomplishments that are hard to do. These insights are accompanied by step-by-step instructions to help any student adopt the relaxed superstar lifestyle—proving that getting into college doesn’t have to be a chore to survive, but instead can be the reward for living a genuinely interesting life.

Author : Jennifer Latham
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316384940

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Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham Pdf

A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. Some bodies won't stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns. Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham's lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations--both yesterday and today.

Author : Elizabeth Cooper
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780299337902

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Burning Ambition by Elizabeth Cooper Pdf

Burning Ambition explores how young people learn to understand and influence the workings of power and justice in their society. Since 2008, hundreds of secondary schools across Kenya have been targeted with fire by their students. Through an in-depth study of Kenyan secondary students’ use of arson, Elizabeth Cooper asks why. With insightful ethnographic analysis, she shows that these young students deploy arson as moral punishment for perceived injustices and arson proves an effective tactic in their politics from below. Drawing from years of research and a rich array of sources, Cooper accounts for how school fires stoke a national conversation about the limited means for ordinary Kenyans, and especially youth, to peacefully influence the governance of their own lives. Further, Cooper argues that Kenyan students’ actions challenge the existing complacency with the globalized agenda of “education for all,” demonstrating that submissive despondency is not the only possible response to the failed promises of education to transform material and social inequalities.

Author : Laura Bates
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781728206745

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The Burning by Laura Bates Pdf

"A smart, explosive examination of gender discrimination and its ramifications." — Publishers Weekly From Laura Bates, internationally renowned feminist and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, comes a realistic novel for the #metoo era. The Burning will prompt all readers to consider the implications of sexism and the role we can each play in ending it What happens when you can't run or hide from a mistake that goes viral? New school. Check. New town. Check. New last name. Check. Social media profiles? Deleted. Anna and her mother have moved hundreds of miles to put the past behind them. Anna hopes to make a fresh start and escape the harassment she's been subjected to. But then rumors and whispers start, and Anna tries to ignore what is happening by immersing herself in learning about Maggie, a local woman accused of witchcraft in the seventeenth century. A woman who was shamed. Silenced. And whose story has unsettling parallels to Anna's own. The Burning is a powerful call to action, perfect for readers looking for: feminist novels for teens young adult realistic fiction books contemporary novels with historical fiction elements books that deal with current events and issues Praise for The Burning: "A haunting rallying cry against sexism and bullying." —Kirkus Reviews "Emotionally charged...powerful." —Booklist "A painfully realistic, spellbinding novel." —Shelf Awareness "Bates's twist on a cautionary tale will take readers on an emotional roller coaster". —School Library Journal

Author : James Hood Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000704066

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Brands Plucked from the Burning, and how They Were Saved ... by James Hood Wilson Pdf

Author : C. J. Tudor
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405939676

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The Burning Girls by C. J. Tudor Pdf

** SOON TO BE A PARAMOUNT+ ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING SAMANTHA MORTON AND RUBY STOKES** The chilling RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalk Man If you see the Burning Girls something bad will befall you... 'A mesmerising and atmospheric page-turner, with plenty of shocks and a surprise twist for a finale. Her best novel yet' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Hypnotic and horrifying . . . Without doubt her best yet, The Burning Girls left me sleeping with the lights on' CHRIS WHITAKER _________ 500 years ago: eight martyrs burned 30 years ago: two teenagers vanished Two months ago: a vicar died mysteriously Welcome to Chapel Croft. For Rev Jack Brooks and teenage daughter Flo it's a fresh start. New job, new home. But in a close-knit community old superstitions and a mistrust of outsiders mean treading carefully. Yet right away Jack has more frightening concerns. Why did no one say the last vicar killed himself? Why is Flo plagued by visions of burning girls? And who is sending them threatening messages? Old ghosts with scores to settle can never rest. And Jack is standing in their way . . . _________ 'Tudor operates on the border between credulity and disbelief, creating an atmosphere of menace' Sunday Times 'A gothic, spine-tingling roller-coaster of a story . . . CJ Tudor is a master of horror' C.J. COOKE, author of The Nesting 'The best book yet from C. J. Tudor' Best Praise for C. J. Tudor: 'C. J. Tudor is terrific. I can't wait to see what she does next' Harlan Coben 'Britain's female Stephen King' Daily Mail 'A mesmerizingly chilling and atmospheric page-turner' J.P. Delaney 'Her books have the ability to simultaneously make you unable to stop reading while wishing you could bury the book somewhere deep underground where it can't be found. Compelling and haunting' Sunday Express 'Some writers have it, and some don't. C. J. Tudor has it big time' Lee Child 'A dark star is born' A. J. Finn

Author : Betsy Byars
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781453294161

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The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown by Betsy Byars Pdf

Question one: How is it possible to fall in love with three girls in one day in a single English class? Bingo Brown is an average sixth grader with an unusually serious approach to the business of being twelve. He’s got some “burning questions”—why does he get such wild crushes on girls? How can he avoid the school bully? Why is his favorite teacher acting so strangely?—and he’s determined to figure them out. This first entry in Byars’s acclaimed Bingo Brown series smartly captures all the highs and lows of adolescence. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Betsy Byars including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

Author : James Hall WILSON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023138917

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Brands plucked from the Burning, and how they were saved; with analogies and examples of Christian Life and Character by James Hall WILSON Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
ISBN : OSU:32435020175642

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Report of the Joint Select Committee Appointed to Inquire in to the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States by United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States Pdf

Author : Richard Ovenden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674241206

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Burning the Books by Richard Ovenden Pdf

The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.