Author: Kapaa High and Intermediate School
Publisher:
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Category : High schools
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Author: University of Hawaii at Manoa. Library. Hawaiian Collection
Publisher:
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: Mary Anne Raywid
Publisher: ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment & Evaluation
ISBN: 9781880785263
Category : School improvement programs
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Downsizing schools--creating small schools, schools-within-schools, and small learning communities--has been a highly favored school reform strategy of recent years, one that is supported by considerable research. Yet for many of these schools, the going has not been easy, bedeviled by bureaucratic resistance, public misunderstanding, and struggles for resources and autonomy. This book looks at the often hostile environments in which many small schools must operate, focusing on political difficulties that urban small schools and schools-within-schools encounter with state and district regulations and bureaucracies. The first chapter presents six patterns that typify how small schools/units have been developed and fit into existing school systems. Other chapters describe the small schools movement in New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, and Portland (Oregon), as well as efforts in specific schools: Kapaa Elementary School (Hawaii); International High School (Queens, New York); and the Julia Richman Education Complex (New York City). The final chapter suggests that successful, enduring change in schools requires change and reform at the system level. Issues include changing rules, rather than granting exemptions to small schools; bypassing seniority to hire reform-minded teachers; needs for active superintendent support and a district office dedicated to reform; political maneuvering within "informal" systems; mandates of the standards and accountability movement; federal requirements for research-based reform; bureaucratic pressures to conform; and the need to rethink the principalship. (Contains 49 references and an index.) (SV).

Author: Charles T. Blair-Broeker
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780716754671
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 824

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This book will be an ally for teachers striving to ignite a passion in their students for psychology's many relevant findings, and for students wanting to satisfy a growing curiosity about themselves, their families, their friends, and the world of people around them.

Author: Lucy Calkins
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN: 9780325057309
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Originally published as part of the bestselling series: Units of study in opinion/argument, information, and narrative writing [Grades K-8].

Author: Robert S. Ellwood
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438110383
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 529

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Contains nearly 600 brief entries on the world's religious traditions.

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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Subramuniya (Master.)
Publisher: Himalayan Academy Publications
ISBN: 0945497822
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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"A history-making manual,interreligious study and names list, with stories by Westerners who entered Hinduism and Hindus who deepened their faith"--Cove

Author: Clarence E. Glick
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824882407
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Among the many groups of Chinese who migrated from their ancestral homeland in the nineteenth century, none found a more favorable situation that those who came to Hawaii. Coming from South China, largely as laborers for sugar plantations and Chinese rice plantations but also as independent merchants and craftsmen, they arrived at a time when the tiny Polynesian kingdom was being drawn into an international economic, political, and cultural world. Sojourners and Settlers traces the waves of Chinese immigration, the plantation experience, and movement into urban occupations. Important for the migrants were their close ties with indigenous Hawaiians, hundreds establishing families with Hawaiian wives. Other migrants brought Chinese wives to the islands. Though many early Chinese families lived in the section of Honolulu called "Chinatown," this was never an exclusively Chinese place of residence, and under Hawaii's relatively open pattern of ethnic relations Chinese families rapidly became dispersed throughout Honolulu. Chinatown was, however, a nucleus for Chinese business, cultural, and organizational activities. More than two hundred organizations were formed by the migrants to provide mutual aid, to respond to discrimination under the monarchy and later under American laws, and to establish their status among other Chinese and Hawaii's multiethnic community. Professor Glick skillfully describes the organizational network in all its subtlety. He also examines the social apparatus of migrant existence: families, celebrations, newspapers, schools--in short, the way of life. Using a sociological framework, the author provides a fascinating account of the migrant settlers' transformation from villagers bound by ancestral clan and tradition into participants in a mobile, largely Westernized social order.

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Publisher: Himalayan Academy Publications
ISBN: 1934145408
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1204

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Anyone on the spiritual path knows it's rare that the illumined lives of yogis and gurus are laid before us. We have but a handful: Autobiography of a Yogi; Milarepa: Tibet's Great Yogi; Ramakrishna and His Disciples and a few of others. Now comes an amazing book, The Guru Chronicles, filled with the magical and highly mystical stories of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, his Sri Lankan guru Siva Yogaswami and five preceding masters, who all held truth in the palm of their hand and inspired slumbering souls to "Know thy Self."