Education

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Education Policies From: Scandinavian Common Sense View Baraka Books	Education has a predominant place in the Nordic countries, and it is free, of high quality, and accessible to all. This chapter examines the nature and tenets of education policies and the …	Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand	17	2015	$1.70 Add
From “A Boat Which Is Not a Boat” From: Fastest in the World View Formac Publishing	1908-1918. Outlines the development of Baldwin and Bell’s HD series from 1 to 4 and their quest for hydrofoil self-propulsion.	John Boileau	12	2004	$1.20 Add
From Epilogue From: In Defiance View Between The Lines		Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler	5	2015	$0.50 Add
From Epilogue Twenty-One Recommendations for the Future From: Campus Confidential View James Lorimer and Company	The authors outline their recommendations about the future of universities in Canada	Bill Morrison; Ken S. Coates	18	2013	$1.80 Add
From Epilogue From: Somebodies and Nobodies View New Society Publishers		Robert W. Fuller	2	2004	$0.20 Add
From Everything You Know About Schools is Wrong From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	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
From Excellence? From: In Defiance View Between The Lines	When neoliberals and orthodox conservatives talk about the need for excellence in universities, what kind of elitism are they thinking about? Their vision for universities, being similar to their …	Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler	14	2015	$1.40 Add
From Family Comes First From: Breaking the Word Barrier View Goose Lane Editions	Laurie Glenn Norris recounts the story of Myrtle. The chapter discusses her upbringing, foster care, her Indigenous identity, being a mother, family, being illiterate and navigating a city, …	Laurie Glenn Norris	6	2009	$0.60 Add
From Fat Stanley and the Lancaster Amish From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	Fat Stanley told me he had to cut school almost every day because he didn’t want to end up like me, working for someone else. He was 13 when he said that to me. An Amish man in Ohio told me …	John Taylor Gatto	9	2010	$0.90 Add
From Foreward, Prefaces and Introduction From: Freedom To Learn View New Society Publishers	Not many teachers come to us with a well-formed idea of how students should respond to being in school. The ultimate goal of education is not only developmental and academic accomplishments, but …	Art Willans; Cari Williams	3	2018	$0.30 Add
From NEW! Foreword From: The Attack on Nova Scotia's Schools View Formac Publishing		Grant Frost	9	2020	$0.90 Add
From Foreword From: Counting Out The Scholars View James Lorimer and Company	Defines Performance Indicators as they relate to universities and describes the effect these have had on the nature of universities, concludes that the effect is negative. Outlines arguments that …	Donald C. Savage; William Bruneau	6	2002	$0.60 Add
From Foreword From: In Defiance View Between The Lines		Naomi Klein	3	2015	$0.30 Add
Freedom To Learn Creating a Classroom Where Every Child Thrives New Society Publishers	Disinterested students and behavioral problems are all too common in schools. Yet results show that behavior charts and other reward-and-punishment systems simply don’t work. Teachers are …	Art Willans; Cari Williams	220	2018	View
From From the Hunger From: Breaking the Word Barrier View Goose Lane Editions	Angela Ranson recounts the story of Roger. The chapter discusses his early childhood, struggles with school, his mother, foster care, his foster mother Jean, cadets, the death of his father, and …	Angela Ranson	8	2009	$0.80 Add
From Glossary From: In Defiance View Between The Lines		Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler	4	2015	$0.40 Add