The Wrong Direction

Author : Richard S. Hancock
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412057851

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The Wrong Direction by Richard S. Hancock Pdf

Is our public education system headed in the wrong direction? Richard Hancock asks us not only to scrutinize education, but to consider crucial pragmatic revisions. He looks hard at some of the negative trends which have become entrenched, including grade inflation and social promotion, and a variety of biases which undermine the integrity of the system. He suggests workable solutions. The book addresses a wide audience: students, parents, educators and administrators in the public system and realms of higher learning, government members, professionals, service and business people, Hancock also refers to others who are striving to bring the plight of the system to the attention of the public and the educational policy-makers. We cannot continue to stifle the brilliant, condescend to special interest groups, and ignore the "average" students, cheating them all of pride in honest achievement. Perhaps it is time to encourage and honour excellence! This is at once a warning and a voice encouraging us to act on behalf of our children and our nation!

Author : Charles M. Wynn,Arthur W. Wiggins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Pseudoscience
ISBN : 9780190620295

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Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction by Charles M. Wynn,Arthur W. Wiggins Pdf

The road to reality : scientific method -- Scientific reasoning in action -- The road to reality versus the road to illusion -- UFOs and the extraterrestrial life hypothesis -- Out-of-body experiences and entities -- The astrology hypothesis -- The creationism hypothesis -- Normal sensory perception, extrasensory perception, and psychokinesis -- Alternatives to medicine -- Reflections on the scientific approach to reality

Author : Mark Anthony Bernard
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798886447255

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An Ever Wrong Direction by Mark Anthony Bernard Pdf

This is the true story of a boy growing up in post WWII London, England, with the dark aftereffects of the war still visible in some of the buildings and the personalities of the people who suffered through it all. The occasional family outings to beaches, parks, and the green rolling hills of Wales to visit relatives triggered a dream to one day explore and live in a wide-open country far away from the gloomy, crowded city life. The Canadian adventures that follow, some fun and some almost fatal, are a fulfillment of that dream.

Author : Ernest J. Zarra
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475814293

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The Wrong Direction for Today's Schools by Ernest J. Zarra Pdf

The Wrong Direction for Today’s Schools: The Impact of Common Core on American Education is an in-depth analysis of the newest national American education fad, intended to replace the 2002 incarnation of the ESEA, No Child Left Behind. Zarra delves into the “seeds” that produced the Common Core Standards, as well as the groups involved in the political and corporate pressure to completely revamp America’s K-16 education system. The author lays out a strong case for political motives involving the advancement for nationalized education, such as those found in select European and Asian nations. Zarra also follows the funding and provides solid documentation and analysis of international and national assessments, and how the funding and assessments proved pivotal in the overhaul of American education. After an analysis of the underpinnings of the Common Core Standards, Zarra critiques the myths and facts of the Common Core, and balances these with the emerging realities impacting average Americans and their families. Zarra’s book is a must-read and will prove to be extremely useful to all who are concerned about public, private, and homeschool education in America.

Author : Colin West
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Children's poetry, English
ISBN : 0091548306

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A Step in the Wrong Direction by Colin West Pdf

Author : Shannon L Daniels
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798734315941

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Going Hard In The Wrong Direction by Shannon L Daniels Pdf

Going Hard In The Wrong Direction is not an autobiography. It is a book about a young lady named Shannon Daniels who has survived, seen, and been through more trauma than one can imagine. Shannon survived racism, domestic violence, murder after murder, prison, gangbanging, and so much more. Not only will you read about everything from her point of view, but from the point of view of others.Your past does not determine your future, but your past can build character for you future.

Author : Jane Judah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798888531785

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A Push in the Wrong Direction by Jane Judah Pdf

Author : Jeannie Cheatham
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780292712935

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Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On by Jeannie Cheatham Pdf

Jeannie Cheatham is a living legend in jazz and blues. A pianist, singer, songwriter, and co-leader of the Sweet Baby Blues Band, she has played and sung with many of the greats in blues and jazz—T-Bone Walker, Dinah Washington, Cab Callaway, Joe Williams, Al Hibbler, Odetta, and Jimmy Witherspoon. Cheatham toured with Big Mama Thornton off and on for ten years and was featured with Thornton and Sippie Wallace in the award-winning PBS documentary Three Generations of the Blues. Her music, which has garnered national and international acclaim, has been described as unrestrained, exuberant, soulful, rollicking, wicked, virtuous, wild, and truthful. Cheatham's signature song, "Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On" is a staple in jazz and blues clubs across America and in Europe, Africa, and Japan. In this delightfully frank autobiography, Jeannie Cheatham recalls a life that has been as exuberant, virtuous, wild, and truthful as her music. She begins in Akron, Ohio, where she grew up in a vibrant multiethnic neighborhood surrounded by a family of strong women. From those roots, she launched a musical career that took her from the Midwest to California, doing time along the way everywhere from a jail cell in Dayton, Ohio, where she was innocently caught in a police raid, to the University of Wisconsin-Madison—where she and Jimmy Cheatham taught music. Cheatham writes of a life spent fighting racism and sexism, of rage and resolve, misery and miracles, betrayals and triumphs, of faith almost lost in dark places, but mysteriously regained in a flash of light. Cheatham's autobiography is also the story of her fifty-years-and-counting love affair and musical collaboration with her husband and band partner, Jimmy Cheatham.

Author : Dan Burt
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781978830158

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Every Wrong Direction by Dan Burt Pdf

Every Wrong Direction recreates and dissects the bitter education of Dan Burt, an American émigré who never found a home in America. It begins in the row homes of Jewish immigrants and working-class Italians on the mean streets of 1950s South Philadelphia. Every Wrong Direction follows the author from the rough, working-class childhood that groomed him to be a butcher or charter boat captain, through America, Britain and Saudi Arabia as student, lawyer, spy, culture warrior, and expatriate, ending with a photo of his college rooms at St John’s College, Cambridge. Between this beginning and end, through a Philadelphia commuter college, to Cambridge, then Yale Law School, across the working to upper classes, three countries, and seven cities over 43 years, it maps his pursuit of, realization, disillusionment with and abandonment of America and the American Dream. Praise for Dan Burt's previous memoir, You Think It Strange: “Burt’s early life was indeed a triumph of wit and will. He managed to escape a world filled with violence and a culture that valued street smarts over book smarts, all the while knowing that just about everyone around him thought little of his prospects. That he made it out at all is extraordinary. That he became a successful lawyer and writer is virtually unimaginable.” —Commonweal “Dan Burt is a fine poet, and this memoir has all the sensitivity and vigilance you might expect from a writer with such a background. But his prose also has a robustness and documentary power that continually startles and engages. As it combines these things, You Think It Strange catches the strangeness of the world and makes it familiar.” —Sir Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, 1999-2009

Author : Liz Treacher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0995587760

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The Wrong Direction by Liz Treacher Pdf

A charming romantic comedy, 'The Wrong Direction' is the sequel to' The Wrong Envelope'. It is set in 1920 and continues the adventures of Bernard and Evie. The novel tells the story of what happens after the 'happy ever after'. Fast-paced and full of humour.

Author : Jay McLean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1477849408

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Where the Road Takes Me by Jay McLean Pdf

Chloe has one plan for the future, and one plan only: the road. She's made a promise to herself: don't let anyone in, and don't let anyone love her. Blake Hunter is a basketball star who has it all--everything about him looks perfect to those on the other side of his protective walls. He can't let anyone see the shattered pieces behind the flawless facade or else all his hopes and dreams will disappear. One dark night throws Chloe and Blake together, changing everything, when the so-called perfect boy starts to notice the invisible girl.

Author : Duane Watkins
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781600344459

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Lessons from the Road by Duane Watkins Pdf

Author : Ken Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1320313914

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Dead End of a Wrong Direction by Ken Johnson Pdf

Author : William Peter Blatty
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466834743

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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home by William Peter Blatty Pdf

Blatty's tale concerns John "Wrong-Way" Goldfarb, a former college football star who once ran 95 yards for a touchdown in the wrong direction. Now a U-2 pilot, his plane malfunctions and crashes in the mythical Arab kingdom of Fawzia. The country's leader threatens to turn him over to the Soviets unless he agrees to coach a football team. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Aakar Patel
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789354927966

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Our Hindu Rashtra by Aakar Patel Pdf

India has taken so sharp a turn in recent years that the very centre has shifted considerably. What led to this swing? Is it possible to trace the path to this point? Is there a way back to the just, secular, inclusive vision of our Constitution-makers? This country has long been an outlier in its South Asian neighbourhood, with its inclusive Constitution and functioning democracy. The growth of Hindutva, in some sense, brings India in line with the other polities here. In Our Hindu Rashtra, writer and activist Aakar Patel peels back layer after layer of cause and effect through independent India's history to understand how Hindutva came to gain such a hold on the country. He examines what it means for India that its laws and judiciary have been permeated by prejudice and bigotry, what the breach of fundamental rights portends in these circumstances, and what the all-round institutional collapse signifies for the future of Indians. Most importantly, Patel asks and answers that most important of questions: What possibilities exist for a return? Thought-provoking and pulling no punches, this book is an essential read for anyone who wishes to understand the nature of politics in India and, indeed, South Asia.