Author: F. R. Berchem
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1896219152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This stylishly illustrated work promises to be a worthy sequel to Berchem's earlier book, The Yonge Street Story 1793?1860.
Opportunity Road
Author: F. R. Berchem
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1896219152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This stylishly illustrated work promises to be a worthy sequel to Berchem's earlier book, The Yonge Street Story 1793?1860.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1896219152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This stylishly illustrated work promises to be a worthy sequel to Berchem's earlier book, The Yonge Street Story 1793?1860.
The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Engineering & Contracting
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
The New York Supplement
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
Book Description
"Cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals, Supreme and lower courts of record of New York State, with key number annotations." (varies)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
Book Description
"Cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals, Supreme and lower courts of record of New York State, with key number annotations." (varies)
The Commercial Motor
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
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Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Good Roads
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Road-maker
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Metropolitan Management, Transportation and Planning
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buses
Languages : en
Pages : 1664
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Buses
Languages : en
Pages : 1664
Book Description
The Opportunity Equation
Author: Eric Schwarz
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807033731
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Schwarz, founder of the groundbreaking Citizen Schools program, shares his vision for reducing inequality by pairing successful adults with low-income students. Parental wealth now predicts adult success more than at any point in the last hundred years. And yet as debates about education rage on, and wealth-based achievement gaps grow, too many people fix the blame on one of two convenient scapegoats: poverty or our public schools. But in fact, low-income kids are learning more now than ever before. The real culprit for rising inequality, Eric Schwarz argues in The Opportunity Equation, is that wealthier kids are learning much, much more—mostly outside of school. In summer camps, robotics competitions, sessions with private tutors, and conversations around the dinner table, children from more affluent families build the skills and social networks that propel them to success. In The Opportunity Equation, Schwarz tells the story of how he founded the pioneering Citizen Schools program to combat rising inequality by bringing these same opportunities to children who don’t have access to them. By increasing learning time in schools and harnessing the power of an army of volunteers with various skills and professional backgrounds—lawyers, engineers, carpenters, journalists, nonprofit leaders, and grandmothers who sew—Citizen Schools offers after-school apprenticeships that provide the building blocks for adult success. Recounting the triumphs and setbacks he’s encountered in implementing the program, Schwarz shows that some of the nation’s lowest-performing schools in its lowest-income cities can, with help, provide their students with many of the same experiences wealthy communities afford to their children. The results have been proven: in the dozen school districts, from New York to Oakland, that have partnered with Citizen Schools, rates of attendance, proficiency, graduation, and college acceptance have gone up—and the achievement gap closes. At a time when many stakeholders in the education debates are looking for new, silver-bullet shortcuts to educational excellence, Schwarz shows that the best solution is human-centered, rooted in the American tradition of citizen voluntarism, and, most important, achievable. We can provide quality education for all students and close the opportunity gap in this country—and we can do it together.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807033731
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Schwarz, founder of the groundbreaking Citizen Schools program, shares his vision for reducing inequality by pairing successful adults with low-income students. Parental wealth now predicts adult success more than at any point in the last hundred years. And yet as debates about education rage on, and wealth-based achievement gaps grow, too many people fix the blame on one of two convenient scapegoats: poverty or our public schools. But in fact, low-income kids are learning more now than ever before. The real culprit for rising inequality, Eric Schwarz argues in The Opportunity Equation, is that wealthier kids are learning much, much more—mostly outside of school. In summer camps, robotics competitions, sessions with private tutors, and conversations around the dinner table, children from more affluent families build the skills and social networks that propel them to success. In The Opportunity Equation, Schwarz tells the story of how he founded the pioneering Citizen Schools program to combat rising inequality by bringing these same opportunities to children who don’t have access to them. By increasing learning time in schools and harnessing the power of an army of volunteers with various skills and professional backgrounds—lawyers, engineers, carpenters, journalists, nonprofit leaders, and grandmothers who sew—Citizen Schools offers after-school apprenticeships that provide the building blocks for adult success. Recounting the triumphs and setbacks he’s encountered in implementing the program, Schwarz shows that some of the nation’s lowest-performing schools in its lowest-income cities can, with help, provide their students with many of the same experiences wealthy communities afford to their children. The results have been proven: in the dozen school districts, from New York to Oakland, that have partnered with Citizen Schools, rates of attendance, proficiency, graduation, and college acceptance have gone up—and the achievement gap closes. At a time when many stakeholders in the education debates are looking for new, silver-bullet shortcuts to educational excellence, Schwarz shows that the best solution is human-centered, rooted in the American tradition of citizen voluntarism, and, most important, achievable. We can provide quality education for all students and close the opportunity gap in this country—and we can do it together.
Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1564
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1564
Book Description