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Following three teenagers who chose to spend one school year living and learning in Finland, South Korea and Poland, a literary journalist, through their adventures, discovers startling truths about how attitudes, parenting and rigorous teaching have revolutionized these countries' education results.
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The year of learning dangerously : adventures in homeschooling
by Quinn Cummings
Citing a rising number of homeschooled children in America, a blogger and Oscar-nominated child actor recounts her misadventures in first-time homeschooling, an endeavor marked by her own math aversion, experiments with current trends and a chaperone venture at a home-school prom. 25,000 first printing.
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Shelter in a time of storm : how black colleges fostered student activism
by Jelani Manu-Gowon Favors
"For generations, Black colleges have been essential institutions for the African American community. Their nurturing environments have not only aided in students' education and advancement. They have also offered spaces to develop racial consciousness and analyze the paradoxes embodied in American culture. The development and politicization of students on the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) has resulted in waves of activism, catalyzing the modern Civil Rights Movement and forever altering the political destiny of the United States"
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American Higher Education Since World War II : A History
by Roger L. Geiger
American higher education is nearly four centuries old. But in the decades following World War II, the role of colleges and universities in American society changed dramatically. Roger Geiger provides a complete and in-depth history of this remarkable transformation, taking readers from the GI Bill and the postwar expansion of higher education, to the social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s, desegregation and coeducation, and the challenges confronting American higher education today.
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I am a pencil : a teacher, his kids, and their world of stories
by Sam Swope
When a children's book writer gives a workshop to a group of third-graders, he becomes so impressed by their spirit that he continues to work with the class of mostly new Americans for an additional three years and learns of their hopes, dreams, families, and lives. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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