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Author
Series
Tracy Flick volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede, abruptly announces his retirement, creating a rare opportunity for Tracy to ascend to the top job. Energized by the prospect of her long-overdue promotion, Tracy throws herself into her work with renewed zeal,...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The beloved superintendent of New York's Roslyn school district and his staff, friends and relatives become the prime suspects in the unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A Curriculum of Fear examines Milton High School’s specialized Homeland Security program--what it means to students and staff and what it says about the militarization of public schools. The first ethnography of such a program, it provides a close encounter with the new normal imposed by the global war on terror--a school under siege, actively preparing for the siege itself. --Publisher
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In order to sort out the claims and counter-claims that wars bring, this book presents some unique statistics on more than 100 individual public schools in New York City. Each charter school in this group is located in the same building with a traditional public school serving the same community. Test scores show charter school students achieving proficiency on educational tests at a rate several times the rate of other schools in the same buildings....
13) Box out
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
High school sophomore Liam jeopardizes his new position on the varsity basketball team when he decides to take a stand against his coach who is leading prayers before games and enforcing teamwide participation.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant young scholar's history of 175 years of teaching in America shows that teachers have always borne the brunt of shifting, often impossible expectations. In other nations, public schools are one thread in a quilt that includes free universal childcare, health care, and job training. Here, schools are the whole cloth. Today we look around the world at countries like Finland and South Korea, whose students consistently outscore Americans...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this workplace comedy from writer/executive producer/star Quinta Brunson and executive producers Justin Halpern & Patrick Schumacker, a group of teachers is brought together in a Philadelphia public school, because they love teaching. Though outnumbered and underfunded, they love what they do even if they don't love the school district's less-than-stellar attitude toward educating children.
16) God's not dead 2
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A Christian teacher is forced before a judge for honestly answering a question about Jesus in the classroom. With the principal and superintendent joining forces with a zealous civil liberties group, Grace faces an epic court case that could cost her the career she loves and expel God from the classroom.
Author
Publisher
Libertas Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education warned, "The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people." Forty years later, are things better or worse? This book shares forty examples of how poorly today's government schools are doing to show that the "rising tide of mediocrity" has created a tsunami of low expectations and poor...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Everyone agrees that we should graduate as many students as possible, as prepared for colleges and jobs as possible. We all want improved STEM and computer literacy. We're united in our belief that racial testing gaps need to be closed to create more opportunities for everyone. But there are billions of dollars spent every year to get Americans to give up on these shared goals. Why? Race to the Bottom is the first comprehensive expose of the way...
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