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3) God's club
Publisher
Studio City
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A faith-based feature about a public school teacher fighting against angry parents who are insisting on the separation of church and state and pushing for the end of the school's Bible club. Everything changes, however, when the parents witness their own children find faith and be 'saved.'
Publisher
[PBS]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Once the envy of the world, American schools are now in trouble. Can the science of learning-- including new insights from neuroscientists, psychologists, and educators--reveal how kids' brains work and tell us which techniques are most likely to engage and inspire growing minds? Teachers, students, parents, and scientists take center stage as NOVA explores a new vision for the School of the Future."--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Conservatives have succeeded in establishing their vision of education in America, one in which government funds can be used to pay for both public and private schools. As a result, the very meaning of public education in the United States has shifted away from the idea of a universal good. To understand how we got here, The Death of Public School argues, we must look back at the turbulent history of school choice. The Death of Public School tells...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
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
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Cultural Literacy, a passionate and cogent argument for reforming the way we teach our children.
Why, after decades of commissions, reforms, and efforts at innovation, do our schools continue to disappoint us? In this comprehensive book, educational theorist E. D. Hirsch, Jr. masterfully analyzes how American ideas about education have veered off course, what we must do to right them, and most importantly why. He argues...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Argues against the current state of American education and reveals what is really needed to fight for a system that offers the world's highest quality education.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Discusses how school choice, misapplied standards of accountability, the No Child Left Behind mandate, and the use of a corporate model have all led to a decline in public education and presents arguments for a return to strong neighborhood schools and quality teaching.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of the classic Up The Down Staircase comes an unforgettable book about a year inside a troubled New York City school. In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly collided headlong with the appalling reality of his students' lives and a hobbled education system unable to help them: Jay runs a drug ring for his incarcerated...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Hamilton High Principal Wendell Quinn is tired of the violence, drug abuse, teen pregnancies, and low expectations at his Indianapolis school. A single father of four, Quinn is a Christian and a family man. He wants to see change in his community, so he starts a voluntary after-school Bible Study and prayer program. He knows he is risking his job by leading the program, but the high turnout at every meeting encourages him. A year later, violence and...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
More than sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that America's schools could no longer be segregated by race. Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley was eleven years old in 1966 when federally mandated integration of schools went into effect in the state and the school in his small eastern North Carolina town was first integrated. Until then, blacks and whites didn't sit next to one another in a public space or...
16) Uintah County School District school histories: Alterra High School to Whiterocks Boarding School
Author
Publisher
[Utah] Archives and Records Service
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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.
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
God's not dead: A college freshman who is very religious must debate the existence of God with his college professor who believes otherwise in order to earn a passing grade.
God's not dead 2: A teacher finds herself in trouble when she answers a student's question about Jesus.
God's not dead, a light in darkness: Estranged brothers, one a pastor and the other a lawyer, are reunited when Hadleigh University seeks to close the pastor's church which...
20) God's not dead 2
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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.
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