Education
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From  IntroductionFrom: In Defiance |
Introduction and background to the events that resulted in the Quebec student strike of 2011 and 2012, including a discussion of the provincial government’s attempts to raise tuition fees. | Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Michael Eric Dyson In Conversation With Rudyard GriffithsFrom: Political Correctness |
This reading consists of an interview between journalist Rudyard Griffiths and Michael Eric Dyson prior to the Munk Debate on the Political Correctness. The topic of the debate is the role and … | Michael Eric Dyson; Rudyard Griffiths | 9 | 2018 | $1.08 Add |
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From  PrologueAgainst School |
I taught for thirty years in some of the worst schools in Manhattan, and in some of the best, and during that time, I became an expert in boredom. | John Taylor Gatto | 11 | 2010 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Reading Is Magic |
Forward from Lieutenant-Governor Herménégilde Chiasson. | Herménégilde Chiasson | 4 | 2009 | $0.40 Add |
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From  A Student’s Guide to UniversityFrom: Campus Confidential |
Focuses on what it means to be a student in university divided into the following: 1 University Isn’t for Everyone 2 Should Tuition Be Free? 3 Consider the Skilled Trades 4 University … | Bill Morrison; Ken S. Coates | 22 | 2013 | $2.20 Add |
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From A Twelve-Vote MarginFrom: In Defiance |
How student organizations engaged students on various campuses and fostered mass meetings and voting on the strike. | Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 12 | 2015 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Chapter 2Uses and Abuses of Rank From: Somebodies and Nobodies |
What rankism looks like and how pervasive it is in society. The psyche of bullying has its roots in rankism and creates an endless cycle of "kicking the dog." | Robert W. Fuller | 12 | 2004 | $1.20 Add |
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From Everything You Know About Schools is Wrong |
Forced schooling seduces the trapped into believing that inert knowledge, memorized fact bits and sequences is the gold standard of intellectual achievement. Learning to connect those bits into … | John Taylor Gatto | 26 | 2010 | $2.60 Add |
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From Michelle Goldberg In Conversation With Rudyard GriffithsFrom: Political Correctness |
This reading consists of an interview between journalist Rudyard Griffiths and New York Times Columnist Michelle Goldberg prior to the Munk Debate on the Political Correctness. The topic of the … | Michelle Goldberg; Rudyard Griffiths | 7 | 2018 | $0.84 Add |
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From Preface |
Preface by authors Marilyn Lerch and Peter Sawyer. | Marilyn Lerch | 2 | 2009 | $0.20 Add |
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From  Reconceptualizing ResistanceHabitus, Discourse and Place From: Learning to Leave |
- | Michael Corbett | 30 | 2007 | $3.00 Add |
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From  Students Reaching Their PotentialFrom: Freedom To Learn |
I want my students to take as much responsibility for their own learning as I take for teaching. From the first day, I am developing all students as effective learners. No benefit can come from … | Art Willans; Cari Williams | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! The Roots of Educational Reform |
- | Grant Frost | 10 | 2020 | $1.00 Add |
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From  The Surprisingly Colourful History of Performance Indicators |
Looks at the historical background that led to the use of Pis and splits this into five phases: I: Nineteenth Century Origins, II: The Cult of Efficiency & Taylorism, III: Behaviourist Social … | Donald C. Savage; William Bruneau | 35 | 2002 | $3.50 Add |
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From A Generation No One Was Counting OnFrom: In Defiance |
The meetings at some schools attract thousands of students, and the debates about the strike heat up. This chapter asks why this particular generation of students became vocal and active so quickly. | Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Bell and BaldwinFrom: Fastest in the World |
1870-1909. Examines the partnership of Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin and what led to the creadtion of the HD-4, a record-breaking hydrofoil. | John Boileau | 9 | 2004 | $0.90 Add |
