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A Principal's View
Dr. B. Lee Brooks, who spent decades teaching in and serving as an administrator at challenging secondary schools, shares a candid picture of the problems schools face in this commentary. He highlights dirty deeds that occur in schools across the globe, such as illicit drug use, inappropriate behavior, sex, and general dysfunction. The author demonstrates how both students and adults are victimized on a daily basis. Authentic teaching and learning rarely happen at school, often because of external factors that have nothing to do with teaching students. Children, however, are the world's most precious resource - and the author argues that fathers, mothers, family and community members, educators, and administrators must all do a better job to help them succeed. It is up to all of us to embrace past and present failures and strive to make changes that will recapture the attention of our lost children. Find out how to do it with an insider's account of the problems we must overcome.
Fried Potatoes, Mustard Greens, Fat Back, Soup Beans, and Cornbread. . .
“. . . Retracing the Vanishing Footprints of Our Appalachian Ancestors” represents a genealogical history of thirteen major pioneer families who settled in eastern Kentucky during the 18th and 19th Centuries. The surnames include Adams, Berry, Brooks, Brown, Burton, Castle, Chaffin, Daniel, Large, Thompson, Ward, Wellman, and Young. To fully appreciate their social and economic hardships and challenges requires the reader to visualize what life was like on the early frontier. After the American Revolution and the Civil War, many of these early pioneers traveled from North Carolina and Virginia into the sheltering hills of eastern Kentucky via Cumberland Gap and Pound Gap. Others came fro...
Attention and Performance VII
Originally published in 1978, this seventh volume of an international series continues the objective to increase and disseminate scientific knowledge in the area of human attention, performance and information processing, and to foster international communication in this area. This volume covers the following topics: time in perception; word perception and reading; speech perception and coding; hemisphere differences; response and physiological processes; theories and models. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.
