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Last Bell
In the mid-nineties, the Alfred Glickman School was just another failing school in one of America's most violent cities. Then SABIS®, a private, for-profit education provider, took over. Twenty years later, the school is a six-time silver medalist in U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best High Schools" listing, and every single graduate of the school has been offered a college place. With success of this magnitude, you would think that for-profit managed charter schools like SABIS would be in high demand. On the contrary, they are fought at every turn. Why is the idea of employing for-profit companies to help rescue failing public schools treated with fear and hostility? Stranger...
School Libraries in a Time of Change
By becoming practical futurists, school librarians can help their libraries not only to survive sweeping changes in education but to thrive. This book shows how to spot technological trends and use them to your library's advantage. During this time of rapid modernization of technology and educational reform, this book is a must-read for school librarians tasked with ensuring their libraries meet evolving standards. This title provides the research and organizational techniques and skills they need to gain seats at the table of the three power committees: technology, curricula, and strategic planning. School librarians need to collect and publicize national and local school-based evidence tha...
The Journeys of Trees: A Story about Forests, People, and the Future
An urgent and illuminating portrait of forest migration, and of the people studying the forests of the past, protecting the forests of the present, and planting the forests of the future. Forests are restless. Any time a tree dies or a new one sprouts, the forest that includes it has shifted. When new trees sprout in the same direction, the whole forest begins to migrate, sometimes at astonishing rates. Today, however, an array of obstacles—humans felling trees by the billions, invasive pests transported through global trade—threaten to overwhelm these vital movements. Worst of all, the climate is changing faster than ever before, and forests are struggling to keep up. A deft blend of sc...
World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements
Award-winning teacher and high-profile public speaker John Hunter offers insights into conflict resolution and collective problem-solving gleaned from his many years teaching kids through the "world peace game," an innovative global systems simulation he created.
The Schools We Need
This paperback edition, with a new introduction, offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America's schooling methods and ideas--by one of America's most important educators, and author of the bestselling Cultural Literacy. For over fifty years, American schools have operated under the assumption that challenging children academically is unnatural for them, that teachers do not need to know the subjects they teach, that the learning "process" should be emphasized over the facts taught. All of this is tragically wrong. Renowned educator and author E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that, by disdaining content-based curricula while favoring abstract--and discredited--theor...
Das Mammut aus der Tiefkühltruhe
Die Life Sciences haben fast alle Antworten auf die Fragen des Lebens Genetiker sind heute in der Lage, nahezu jeden Organismus im Labor herzustellen. Und daher ist es möglich, ausgestorbene Arten wieder zum Leben zu erwecken. Schon ein kleiner Funke DNA genügt. Aber – ist das sinnvoll? Muss die Wissenschaft alles, nur weil sie es kann? Die Grundfragen von Mensch und Wissenschaft als unterhaltsames und inspirierendes Leseerlebnis. Nie zuvor in der Geschichte wusste der Mensch mehr über den Bauplan des Lebens im Allgemeinen und der individuellen genetischen Ausrüstung von Individuen und Spezies, genannt Genom, im Besonderen. Der Mensch weiß so viel darüber und hat die Biotechnologie so weit entwickelt, dass er sich gottgleich zum Schöpfer neuer Spezies hochschwingen oder verschwundene Arten wieder zum Leben erwecken kann. Britt Wray erstellt eine Chronologie der genetischen Erkenntnisse, amüsiert mit Anekdoten der damit verbundenen Weltanschauungen und stellt letztlich auf unterhaltsame Weise die Frage aller Fragen: Müssen wir, nur weil wir können?
Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects one person in 40 and can cause great suffering. This volume provides the first comprehensive summary of our understanding of this enigmatic condition, summarizing current work ranging from genetics and neurobiology through cognitive psychology, treatment, personal experiences, and societal implications.
She’s Not There
'A wonderful, artfully addictive novel' IAN MCEWAN When Jonah and Raff wake up on Monday, their mother Lucy isn’t there.
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