Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Middle school novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Hell on Earth. That's what it's like for Luce to be apart from her fallen angel boyfriend. It took them an eternity to find one another, but now he has told her he must go away. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts -- immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast with unusually gifted students : Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
x, 283 p. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.
4) Reign of error: the hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to America's public schools
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, "whistleblower extraordinaire" (The Wall Street Journal), one of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States, author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System; The Language Police ("Impassioned . . . Fiercely argued . . . Every bit as alarming as it is illuminating" --The New York Times); and the now-classic Great School...
Author
Series
To all the boys I've loved before volume 3
Language
English
Description
As high school ends, Lara Jean looks forward to her father's remarriage and seeing her sister, but she must choose a college, prepare to leave home, and possibly leave her beloved Peter behind.
Author
Publisher
Beaufort Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 271 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Across the country, many parents today have more choices for their children's education than ever before. If you are starting the process of finding your child's first school-or if you want to choose a new learning environment-The School Choice Roadmap is for you. This first-of-its-kind book offers a practical, jargon-free overview of school choice policies, from public school open enrollment to private school scholarships and more. It breaks down...
Author
Language
English
Description
"An essential book for parents to help their children get the education they need to live happy, productive lives from The New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Creative Schools. Parents everywhere are deeply concerned about the education of their children, especially now, when education has become a minefield of politics and controversy. One of the world's most influential educators, Robinson has had countless conversations with parents...
Author
Publisher
Cato Institute
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
xvi, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of a monopoly public school system that consigns millions of disadvantaged children to educational inequality, the Cleveland school vouchers case, appealed all the way to the Supreme Court - which on June 27, 2002 upheld the program in an historic decision - has brought the issue of educational freedom to national attention. Some have called it the most important lawsuit of its kind since Brown v. Board of Education. In this...
Author
Publisher
Teachers College Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xix, 204 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Tracing the origins of vouchers and charters in the United States, this book examines the push to globally compete with education systems in countries such as China and Finland. It documents issues important to the school choice debate, including the impoverishment of public schools to support privatized schools, the abandonment of long-held principles of public education, questionable disciplinary practices, and community disruption. School Choice:...
Author
Publisher
NewSouth Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"School choice, largely touted as a system that would ensure underprivileged youth have an equal opportunity in education, has grown in popularity in the past fifteen years. The rhetoric of school choice, however, resembles that of segregationists who closed public schools and funded private institutions to block African American students from integrating with their white peers in the wake of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A higher-education journalist draws on insider access to explain the nuts and bolts of college admissions today, outlining the unexpected agendas that reflect which and why prospective students receive admission into better schools.
Many believe that college admissions is merit-based, rewarding the best students. Selingo, who was embedded in three different admissions offices, dispels entrenched notions of how to compete and win at the admissions...
In Commonwealth Catalog
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing Network can be requested from other Commonwealth Catalog libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Purchase Suggestion Service. Submit Request
