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In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. Nearly every morning, he awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to a nearby school. When he got there, he did his best to follow lesson plans and help his students get something done. In Baker's hands, the inner life of the classroom is examined anew -- mundane...
Publisher
Vision Video
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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This groundbreaking documentary exposes what is happening in our public schools today. It will inform and equip concerned Americans to stand and protect the innocence and well-being of our children and to compel schools to return to educating students, not indoctrinating them.
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Child's World
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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School has never been so exciting! Kid-friendly photographs and comprehensive diagrams teach young readers various signs for objects around the classroom. Both Spanish and English translations encourage kids to explore different languages and methods of communication.
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Series
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English
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"Tracy Flick is back and, once again, the iconic protagonist of Tom Perrotta's Election--and Reese Witherspoon's character from the classic movie adaptation--is determined to take high school politics by storm.Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede,...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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The beloved superintendent of New York's Roslyn school district and his staff, friends and relatives become the prime suspects in the unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history.
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
©2020
Language
English
Description
"From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, Slaying Goliath is an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are trying to privatize America's public schools. Diane Ravitch writes of a true grassroots movement sweeping the country, from cities and towns across America, a movement dedicated to protecting public schools from those...
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Abbott Elementary volume season 1
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this workplace comedy from writer/executive producer/star Quinta Brunson and executive producers Justin Halpern & Patrick Schumacker, a group of teachers is brought together in a Philadelphia public school, because they love teaching. Though outnumbered and underfunded, they love what they do even if they don2t love the school district2s less-than-stellar attitude toward educating children.
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English
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"A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door is about the right-wing agenda to dismantle public education, assessing the myriads of ways our education system is being eroded with privatization measures that exacerbate inequality"--
If America's public schools don't survive the COVID-19 pandemic, it won't just be due to the virus. The crisis had provided opponents of public education their best opportunity to dismantle our system of free, universal, and taxpayer-funded...
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Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Predicts that the American education system is going to experience a bubble burst, just as the housing market did, and offers advice and solutions for parents, educators, and taxpayers on alternatives to the failing school system.
14) Navigating public schools: charting a course to protect your child's Christian faith and worldview
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Publisher
Prepare the Way Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Who Should Read This Book? Navigating Public Schools will empower Christian parents to navigate the increasingly secular public school system with the aim to 1) cultivate strong relationships with their children in a season of immense secular pressure; 2) help their children stand firm in their Christian faith and Biblical worldview; 3) exercise their rights on campus; 4) become salt and light for Jesus Christ. This book will also be a powerful resource...
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Abbott Elementary volume season 2
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The teachers are back at Willard R. Abbott Public School for development week, a time to prepare for the upcoming year before the students first day of school. Post-breakup, Janine is determined to start the year off right and leave her problems at home. Meanwhile, Ava runs a side hustle out of the school parking lot, and Gregory, now a full-time teacher, is in over his head with the curriculum.
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Lyle S. Watson
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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"I have been working for many months on my memoirs -- recollections to hand on to our children: not necessarily how things were, but, how I remember them. Then, this spring I received the Twisp School Alumni Newsletter telling of their planned All-School Reunion '97. It occurred to me that the portion of my memoirs, which deals specifically with the two years we taught school in Twisp, might be of interest to some. As a result I have excerpted Chapter...
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[Okanogan Reunion '94 School History Committee]
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
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A history of the schools in what is now the Okanogan School District, compiled by the Okanogan Reunion '94 School History Committee, from the reminiscences of students who attended them.
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English
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"Our Vintage reissue of Bel Kaufman's classic 1964 novel, which Time has called "the most popular book about U.S. public schools in history": narrated through a collection of memos, doodles, notes between teachers, and papers from desk drawers and wastebaskets, Up the Down Staircase timelessly depicts the shambolic joys and frustrations of a young teacher. With an introduction by Diane Ravitch. Sylvia Barrett arrives at New York City's Calvin Coolidge...
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2014.
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English
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"A brilliant young scholar's history of 175 years of teaching in America shows that teachers have always borne the brunt of shifting, often impossible expectations. In other nations, public schools are one thread in a quilt that includes free universal child care, health care, and job training. Here, schools are the whole cloth. Today we look around the world at countries like Finland and South Korea, whose students consistently outscore Americans...
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