Education
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From  EpilogueFrom: In Defiance |
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 5 | 2015 | $0.50 Add | |
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From  EpilogueTwenty-One Recommendations for the Future From: Campus Confidential |
The authors outline their recommendations about the future of universities in Canada | Bill Morrison; Ken S. Coates | 18 | 2013 | $1.80 Add |
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From  EpilogueFrom: Somebodies and Nobodies |
Robert W. Fuller | 2 | 2004 | $0.20 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 Excellence?From: In Defiance |
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 |
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From  Family Comes First |
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 |
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From Fat Stanley and the Lancaster Amish |
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 |
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From  Foreward, Prefaces and IntroductionFrom: Freedom To Learn |
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 |
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From  NEW! Foreword |
Grant Frost | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add | |
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From  Foreword |
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 |
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From ForewordFrom: In Defiance |
Naomi Klein | 3 | 2015 | $0.30 Add | |
Freedom To LearnCreating a Classroom Where Every Child Thrives |
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 |
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From From the Hunger |
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 |
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From GlossaryFrom: In Defiance |
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 4 | 2015 | $0.40 Add | |
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From Good Sense & Statistics at War |
Outlines seven extended arguments about Pis: [1] Can Pis help build public post-secondary education? [2] Could and should Pis help make post-secondary education more "nimble" and … | Donald C. Savage; William Bruneau | 27 | 2002 | $2.70 Add |
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From Hector Isn’t the Problem |
I was the official New York State Teacher of the Year when I quit on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal, because I couldn’t stand to hurt children any more. | John Taylor Gatto | 7 | 2010 | $0.70 Add |
