The Price They Paid

Author : Vivian Gunn Morris,Curtis L. Morris
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807775004

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In this compelling book, the authors put a human face on desegregation practices in the South. Focusing on an African American community in Alabama, they document not only the gains but also the significant losses experienced by students when their community school was closed and they were forced to attend a White desegregated school across town. This in-depth volume includes: A letter by Dr. William Hooper Councill and speeches by George Washington Trenholm—two African American leaders who worked with communities to provide quality schooling for African American children during segregation.An insider’s view of what life was like inside a segregated African American school—including interviews with graduates who discuss how it felt to be in a caring and nurturing school that provided an atmosphere much like that of a family.Actual events that demonstrate the profound negative impact of using skin color and race as a basis for preferential treatment—including testimonials from parents and students who experienced racial discrimination in their new school. A valuable look at the unmet promises of school desegregation that can help us provide a quality education for all children in the 21st century. “Morris and Morris through their careful research have painted a picture of reality, the type of picture that educators, community leaders, and policymakers must see in order to give a proper assessment of what is going on and what should be done. This clear, straightforward presentation is as necessary as it is powerful.” —From the Foreword by Asa G. Hilliard, III “I found it difficult to put this book down. The Price They Paid is one of the few books that looks at changes in the desegregation of education from the point of view of those living the changes.” —Lucindia H. Chance, Dean, College Of Education, Georgia Southern University

Author : Michael Putzel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0986132101

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The Price They Paid is the stunning and dramatic true story of a legendary helicopter commander in Vietnam and the flight crews that followed him into the most intensive helicopter warfare ever-and how that brutal experience has changed their lives in the forty years since the war ended.

Author : Marty Makary
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781635574128

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New York Times bestseller Business Book of the Year--Association of Business Journalists From the New York Times bestselling author comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system--and the people who are saving it--now with a new Afterword by the author. "A must-read for every American." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBES One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research, and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of the business of medicine and its elusive money games in need of a serious shake-up. Dr. Makary shows how so much of health care spending goes to things that have nothing to do with health and what you can do about it. Dr. Makary challenges the medical establishment to remember medicine's noble heritage of caring for people when they are vulnerable. The Price We Pay offers a road map for everyday Americans and business leaders to get a better deal on their health care, and profiles the disruptors who are innovating medical care. The movement to restore medicine to its mission, Makary argues, is alive and well--a mission that can rebuild the public trust and save our country from the crushing cost of health care.

Author : Andrew D. Olsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1609078705

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Author : Vatey Seng
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cambodia
ISBN : 9780595343836

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The Price We Paid by Vatey Seng Pdf

April 17, 1975--the Communist Khmer Rouge Regime seized power and forced Cambodians of all ages into slavery, turning their lives upside down. This resulted in the death of more than 1.5 million Cambodians out of roughly 8 million population due to forced labor, starvation, and execution. Author Vatey Seng was only thirteen years old when the Khmer Rouge took control. The Price We Paid is her vivid and haunting memoir of the atrocities of the regime. Vatey recounts everything from the initial occupation through the indoctrination and application of the Khmer Rouge's ways of life. Every aspect of her family's life was impacted as the new government achieved its goals through child labor, slavery, and genocide. Vatey's memories provide a glimpse into what the people of Cambodia endured during this dark regime--a regime that totally devastated her beloved country. The Price We Paid also follows the aftermath of the regime. Vatey and her family fled the country and stayed in refugee camps in Thailand, the processing center in the Philippines, and then immigrated to America in 1982. Twenty-five years later, she has gathered the courage and strength to finally tell her story--a story shared by countless Cambodian survivors who still bear the psychological scars of their traumatic experiences. This is the price they paid for the Khmer Rouge revolution.

Author : Clive R. Belfield,Henry M. Levin, Ph.D.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780815708650

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The Price We Pay by Clive R. Belfield,Henry M. Levin, Ph.D. Pdf

While the high cost of education draws headlines, the cost of not educating America's children goes largely ignored. The Price We Pay remedies this oversight by highlighting the private and public costs of inadequate education. In this volume, leading scholars from a broad range of fields—including economics, education, demography, and public health—attach hard numbers to the relationship between educational attainment and such critical indicators as income, health, crime, dependence on public assistance, and political participation. They explore policy interventions that could boost the education system's performance and explain why demographic trends make the challenge of educating our youth so urgent today. Improving educational outcomes for at-risk youth is more than a noble goal. It is an investment with the potential to yield benefits that far outstrip its costs. The Price We Pay provides the tools readers need to analyze both sides of the balance sheet and make informed decisions about which policies will pay off. Contributors include Thomas Bailey (Teachers College, Columbia University), Ronald F. Ferguson (Harvard University), Irwin Garfinkel (Columbia University), Jane Junn (Rutgers University), Brendan Kelly (Columbia University), Enrico Moretti (UCLA), Peter Muennig (Columbia University), Michael Rebell (Teachers College, Columbia University), Richard Rothstein (Teachers College, Columbia University), Cecilia E. Rouse (Princeton University), Marta Tienda (Princeton University), Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University), and Tamara Wilder (Teachers College, Columbia University).

Author : Bev Sellars
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0889229724

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Price Paid by Bev Sellars Pdf

Price Paid untangles truth from some of the myths about First Nations and addresses misconceptions still widely believed today. The second book by award-winning author Bev Sellars, Price Paid is based on a popular presentation Sellars often told to treaty-makers, politicians, policymakers, and educators. The book begins with glimpses of foods, medicines, and cultural practices North America's indigenous peoples have contributed to the rest of the world. It documents the dark period of regulation by racist laws during the twentieth century, and then discusses new emergence in the twenty-first century into a re-establishment of Indigenous land and resource rights. The result is a candidly told personal take on the history of Aboriginal rights in Canada and Canadian history told from a First Nations point of view.

Author : Marie Florence
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781635756173

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Ree's Chronicles: The Price I Paid For A Cup Of Sugar by Marie Florence Pdf

The Price I Paid for a Cup of Sugar is being told by a young woman locked up in a mental institution from having an emotional breakdown caused by heartbreak in her life. The Price I Paid for a Cup of Sugar is just the beginning of Ree's Chronicles, which are true events based on a little girl growing up in a big family feeling unnoticed, unloved, and unappreciated until the time she gave her life to Jesus. Ree was a lost and was a broken down young girl, who had been raped at the tender age of twelve and managed somehow to fall in love with the man who raped her and continued to have sex with her for four years after until one day she realized that it wasn't love she was in; it was a traumatic state of mind she had covered up all those years. Laying in the hospital bed at Arden Hill Behavioral Health is where God revealed to her his plan to save this woman and the reason she had gone through so much in life. One reason was out of disobedience to God and the second was so I can live to help other women survive being molested, raped, abused, heartbroken, and many other situations that some women go through in life. God told me to put it on paper, and he would do the rest. I spent seven days lying in the hospital, praying and reading God's word, asking God, "Why me?" And he said, "Just put it on paper, Ree, and I will do the rest." I didn't understand until I got home from the hospital and about 2:00 a.m. the next morning, I began to write down things, and I have not stopped-yet.

Author : Sara Goldrick-Rab
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226404486

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Paying the Price by Sara Goldrick-Rab Pdf

A “bracing and well-argued” study of America’s college debt crisis—“necessary reading for anyone concerned about the fate of American higher education” (Kirkus). College is far too expensive for many people today, and the confusing mix of federal, state, institutional, and private financial aid leaves countless students without the resources they need to pay for it. In Paying the Price, education scholar Sara Goldrick-Rab reveals the devastating effect of these shortfalls. Goldrick-Rab examines a study of 3,000 students who used the support of federal aid and Pell Grants to enroll in public colleges and universities in Wisconsin in 2008. Half the students in the study left college without a degree, while less than 20 percent finished within five years. The cause of their problems, time and again, was lack of money. Unable to afford tuition, books, and living expenses, they worked too many hours at outside jobs, dropped classes, took time off to save money, and even went without adequate food or housing. In many heartbreaking cases, they simply left school—not with a degree, but with crippling debt. Goldrick-Rab combines that data with devastating stories of six individual students, whose struggles make clear the human and financial costs of our convoluted financial aid policies. In the final section of the book, Goldrick-Rab offers a range of possible solutions, from technical improvements to the financial aid application process, to a bold, public sector–focused “first degree free” program. "Honestly one of the most exciting books I've read, because [Goldrick-Rab has] solutions. It's a manual that I'd recommend to anyone out there, if you're a parent, if you're a teacher, if you're a student."—Trevor Noah, The Daily Show

Author : Douglas Warfield
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594677946

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The Truth About The Price He Paid by Douglas Warfield Pdf

Will Rogers was one of the world's best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s. Not only was he was the #1 male box office leader at the movies from 1933 until his death (ahead of Fred Astaire, Clark Gable and James Cagney), but also he was the most widely read and frequently quoted internationally syndicated columnist of his day with 40 million readers (the population of the US at that time was 120 million). Get to know this America icon a little better with "The Words & Wisdom of Will Rogers", a fun and interesting compilation of Rogers' own words. If you are interested in finding out a little more about the person behind the great man, but don't want to make it a scholarly effort of digging through the archives, then you will find this an engaging and enlightening little book. From selected speeches to personal letters to his columns to a selection of "quotable quotes", you'll get a deeper and more personal understanding of this fascinating figure and his place in history.

Author : Michael O'Malley
Publisher : Broadway
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Merit pay
ISBN : 0767901312

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Are You Paid what You're Worth? by Michael O'Malley Pdf

Cutting through the increasingly arcane jargon of corporate compensation plans, this nuts-and-bolts guide is the first to show readers exactly how to determine their competitive worth in the workplace and gives them the confidence and the proven strategies to get what they deserve.

Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee to Investigate Alleged Combinations in Manufactures, Trade and Insurance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Monopolies
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081927675

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Report of the Select Committee Appointed 29th February, L888, to Investigate and Report Upon Alleged Combinations in Manufactures, Trade and Insurance in Canada by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee to Investigate Alleged Combinations in Manufactures, Trade and Insurance Pdf

Author : Robin L. Pinkley,Gregory B. Northcraft
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781466880030

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Get Paid What You're Worth by Robin L. Pinkley,Gregory B. Northcraft Pdf

In Get Paid What You're Worth, Robin L. Pinkley and Greogry B. Northcraft tell you how you can begin getting paid what you're worth--today! Couldn't you use more money? Whether you're entering the workforce for the first time, making a job change, or seeking better compensation for your contributions, Robin L. Pinkley and Gregory B. Northcraft will guide you step-by-step toward getting exactly what you deserve. - Learn why there may be more money available for you than you think. - Get the confidence to turn your strategic thinking into specific action. - Benefit from a panel of negotiations experts and their decades of experience. Applicants who negotiate job offers receive salaries and benefits of significantly more value than those who do not. And the compensation package you negotiate today will affect all your future job offers. Shouldn't it be the best that it can be? Get Paid What You're Worth is the handbook you need to successfully navigate the business of negotiation.

Author : Martin Kleppmann
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781491903100

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann Pdf

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers. What are the right choices for your application? How do you make sense of all these buzzwords? In this practical and comprehensive guide, author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate this diverse landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Software keeps changing, but the fundamental principles remain the same. With this book, software engineers and architects will learn how to apply those ideas in practice, and how to make full use of data in modern applications. Peer under the hood of the systems you already use, and learn how to use and operate them more effectively Make informed decisions by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of different tools Navigate the trade-offs around consistency, scalability, fault tolerance, and complexity Understand the distributed systems research upon which modern databases are built Peek behind the scenes of major online services, and learn from their architectures

Author : Jeffrey D. Sachs
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307359971

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The Price of Civilization by Jeffrey D. Sachs Pdf

For the first time, Jeffrey Sachs, the pre-eminent economist of our times, turns his attention to his homeland, the United States, to reveal the stunning inadequacy of American-style capitalism and to offer a bold and ambitious plan to change it. Jeffrey Sachs has visited more than a hundred countries on five continents, invited to help diagnose and cure seemingly intractable economic problems. Now, in the wake of the worst recession in recent history, Sachs turns his focus on the United States. The complexity of the world economy means that the American form of capitalism, which has been exported around the globe, brought the world to the brink of the precipice--and it will do so again, if measures aren't taken to fix it. This will require not only government action but for US citizens to reach a consensus on their government's role in everyday life and on their basic values--hugely controversial issues in recent years. The scary thing is if they don't, it will affect us all. The good news is that Sachs, in this book, clearly and persuasively leads his readers to an understanding of what the common ground of reform can and should--indeed, must--be.