The New York Public School

Author : Clara Hemphill
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807746134

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New York City's Best Public Elementary Schools by Clara Hemphill Pdf

For nearly a decade, parents have looked to Clara Hemphill to help them find a great public school for their child. For this third edition, Clara and her staff visited nearly 500 of New York City's elementary schools and chose 200 of the best schools to recommend, with more than 70 new school profiles not included in the previous edition! This essential guide uncovers the inside scoop on schools (the condition of the building, homework, teacher quality, etc.), includes a checklist of questions to ask on a school tour, and incorporates new listings of charter schools and magnet programs.

Author : Clara Hemphill
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807774472

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New York City's Best Public High Schools by Clara Hemphill Pdf

If you lived anywhere else in the country, you would probably send your child to your neighborhood high school. In New York City, it’s much more complicated than that. But what parent has time to research hundreds of school options? To help you choose a high school that is just right for your child, Clara Hemphill and her colleagues at Insideschools visited nearly all of the city’s 400 high schools. This essential revision of the critically acclaimed parents’ guide features new school profiles; invaluable advice to help parents and students through the stressful admissions process; and new sections on alternative schools, vocational schools, and schools for students learning English. Featuring interviews with teachers, parents, and students, this guide uncovers the “inside scoop” about school atmosphere, homework, student stress, competition among students, the quality of teachers, gender issues, the condition of the building, class size, and much more. “For [this] third edition I looked for schools that spark students’ curiosity, broaden their horizons, and help them develop into thoughtful, caring adults.” —Clara Hemphill Praise for Clara Hemphill’s Parents’ Guides! New York Daily News... “Brisk, thoughtful profiles of topnotch, intriguing schools.” Big Apple Parent... “Hemphill has done for schools what Zagat’s did for restaurants.” New York Magazine... “Thoughtful, well-researched…required reading.” The New York Times... “A bible for urban parents.”

Author : Christopher Bonastia
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503631984

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The Battle Nearer to Home by Christopher Bonastia Pdf

Despite its image as an epicenter of progressive social policy, New York City continues to have one of the nation's most segregated school systems. Tracing the quest for integration in education from the mid-1950s to the present, The Battle Nearer to Home follows the tireless efforts by educational activists to dismantle the deep racial and socioeconomic inequalities that segregation reinforces. The fight for integration has shifted significantly over time, not least in terms of the way "integration" is conceived, from transfers of students and redrawing school attendance zones, to more recent demands of community control of segregated schools. In all cases, the Board eventually pulled the plug in the face of resistance from more powerful stakeholders, and, starting in the 1970s, integration receded as a possible solution to educational inequality. In excavating the history of New York City school integration politics, in the halls of power and on the ground, Christopher Bonastia unearths the enduring white resistance to integration and the severe costs paid by Black and Latino students. This last decade has seen activists renew the fight for integration, but the war is still far from won.

Author : Jasmine Mans
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780593197141

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Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans Pdf

A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Oprah Magazine • Time • Vogue • Vulture • Essence • Elle • Cosmopolitan • Real Simple • Marie Claire • Refinery 29 • Shondaland • Pop Sugar • Bustle • Reader's Digest “Nothing short of sublime, and the territory [Mans'] explores...couldn’t be more necessary.”—Vogue From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer identity. With echoes of Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez, Mans writes to call herself—and us—home. Each poem explores what it means to be a daughter of Newark, and America—and the painful, joyous path to adulthood as a young, queer Black woman. Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering Black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing.

Author : New York Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z298798006

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Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library Pdf

Author : Sam Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781620409794

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The New Yorkers by Sam Roberts Pdf

Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world's most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it. In Sam Roberts's pulsating history of the world's most exceptional metropolis, greet the city anew through thirty-one unique New Yorkers you've probably never heard of-just in time for the city's 400th birthday. The New Yorkers introduces the first woman to appear nude in a motion picture, becoming the face of Civic Fame as Miss Manhattan; the couple whose soirée ended the Gilded Age with an embarrassing bang; and the husband and wife who invented the modern celebrity talk show. It reveals the victim of the city's first recorded murder in the seventeenth century and the high school dropout who slashed crime rates in the twentieth. The notorious mobster who was imperiously banished from the city and the woman who successfully sued a bus company for racial discrimination a century before Rosa Parks. Some deserved monuments, but their grandeur was overlooked or forgotten. Others shepherded the city through its perpetual evolution, but discreetly. Virtually all have vanished into New York's uncombed history. The New Yorkers is a living biography of the world's greatest city, and no one knows New York better than Sam Roberts-or is better at bringing its history to life.

Author : William J. Reese
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674075672

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Testing Wars in the Public Schools by William J. Reese Pdf

Despite claims that written exams narrowed the curriculum, ruined children’s health, and turned teachers into automatons, once tests took root in American schools their legitimacy was never seriously challenged. William Reese puts today’s battles over standards and benchmarks into perspective by showcasing the history of the pencil-and-paper exam.

Author : Ed Boland
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781455560608

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The Battle for Room 314 by Ed Boland Pdf

In this insightfully honest and moving memoir about the realities of teaching in an inner-city school, Ed Boland "smashes the dangerous myth of the hero-teacher [and] shows us how high the stakes are for our most vulnerable students" (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black). In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly collided headlong with the appalling reality of his students' lives and a hobbled education system unable to help them. Freddy runs a drug ring for his incarcerated brother; Nee-cole is homeschooled on the subway by her brilliant homeless mother; Byron's Ivy League dream is dashed because he is undocumented. In the end, Boland isn't hoisted on his students' shoulders and no one passes AP anything. This is no urban fairy tale of at-risk kids saved by a Hollywood hero, but a searing indictment of schools that claim to be progressive but still fail their students. Told with compassion, humor, and a keen eye, Boland's story is sure to ignite debate about the future of American education and attempts to reform it.

Author : Kaplan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781625230829

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Kaplan New York City Specialized High School Admissions Test by Kaplan Pdf

The most comprehensive guide for the New York City Specialized High Schools Admissions Test! Every fall, high-achieving eighth- and ninth-grade students take the New York City Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT). Aiming for a top score to stand out from the increasingly competitive applicant pool and get a premium education at a public school, students have a 1-in-10 chance of securing admission into a specialized high school such as Stuyvesant High School; Bronx High School of Science; Brooklyn Technical High School; Brooklyn Latin School; High School for Math, Science, and Engineering at City College; High School of American Studies at Lehman College; Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, or Staten Island Technical High School. Competition for admission gets increasingly tougher each year, but with Kaplan New York City Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, now in its seventh edition, students can get all of the materials they need to prepare for test day. In Kaplan’s New York City Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, students can take advantage of: Two full-length practice tests and the most up-to-date information about the test Vital practice questions in each chapter that cover all tested material Proven score-raising strategies with emphasis on improving math and verbal skills A section dedicated to the 100 most important math concepts covered on the exam Detailed answer explanations for each question, and useful additional practice available online Kaplan New York City Specialized High Schools Admissions Test provides students with everything they need to improve their scores—guaranteed. Kaplan’s Higher Score guarantee provides security that no other test preparation guide on the market can match. Kaplan has helped more than three million students to prepare for standardized tests. We know that our test-taking techniques and strategies work and our materials are completely up-to-date. Kaplan New York City Specialized High Schools Admissions Test is the must-have preparation tool for every student looking to score higher!

Author : S. Rosenbloom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230114739

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The Multiracial Urban High School by S. Rosenbloom Pdf

From 1996-2000, thirty minority teenagers (African American, Chinese American, Puerto Rican American, and Dominican American) were interviewed every year for four years to investigate how their experiences in high school shaped their social relationships.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Audio-visual education
ISBN : UOM:39015075076466

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Key Audiovisual Personnel in Public School and Library Systems in States and Large Cities and in Large Colleges and Universities by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Federal aid to education
ISBN : IND:30000090673322

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Public School Assistance Act of 1961 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare Pdf

Author : Will Carson Ryan,Roberta King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1118 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Teachers
ISBN : HARVARD:32044030211254

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State Pension Systems for Public-school Teachers by Will Carson Ryan,Roberta King Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1372 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Memphis (Tenn.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044030211601

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An Abstract of the Report on the Public School System of Memphis, Tennessee by United States. Bureau of Education Pdf

Author : Cara Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541646780

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The Death of Public School by Cara Fitzpatrick Pdf

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public education—one that threatens the existence of the traditional public school America has relied on public schools for 150 years, but the system is increasingly under attack. With declining enrollment and diminished trust in public education, policies that steer tax dollars into private schools have grown rapidly. To understand how we got here, The Death of Public School argues, we must look back at the turbulent history of school choice. Cara Fitzpatrick uncovers the long journey of school choice, a story full of fascinating people and strange political alliances. She shows how school choice evolved from a segregationist tool in the South in the 1950s, to a policy embraced by advocates for educational equity in the North, to a conservative strategy for securing government funds for private schools in the twenty-first century. As a result, education is poised to become a private commodity rather than a universal good. The Death of Public School presents the compelling history of the fiercest battle in the history of American education—one that already has changed the future of public schooling.