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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling author takes a riveting new direction with this richly textured, multi-layered novel of friendship, murder, revenge, and class conflict set in an upper-crust English school-as enthralling and haunting as Ian McKewan's Atonement and Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley
Audere, agere, auferre.
To dare, to strive, to conquer.
For generations, elite young men have attended St. Oswald's School for Boys, groomed...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Provided is an engaging and inspiring look at public education in the United States. This documentary has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a Silicon Valley eighth-grader who is afraid of being labeled as unfit for college, and Francisco, a Bronx first-grader whose mom will do anything to give him a shot at a better life. Included are featurettes,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Tracy Flick is back and, once again, the iconic protagonist of Tom Perrotta's Election-and Reese Witherspoon's character from the classic movie adaptation-is determined to take high school politics by storm.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,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Depicts the career of a gentle schoolteacher at an English public school. Arthur Chipping ("Mr. Chips") is a middle-aged bachelor who falls in love with and marries a young woman whom he has met on a mountaineering vacation. They live happily at Brookfield School until her death, only a few years later. Mr. Chips devotes the rest of his life to educating many generations of boys." --
Language
English
Formats
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
Basic Books
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 argues for a return to strong neighborhood schools and quality teaching.
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at his new public high school. The school is run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likability gives him the position as the resident 'psychiatrist.' Along with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, Charlie dishes out advice and the occasional prescription to other students in need. Along...
10) Bad education
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.
12) Confessions of a bad teacher: the shocking truth from the front lines of American public education
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
Formats
Description
An explosive new look at the pressures on today's teachers and the pitfalls of school reform, Confessions of a Bad Teacher presents a passionate appeal to save public schools, before it's too late.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker were ready to reform our failing schools. They got an education. When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools -- and to solve the education crisis in every city in America -- it looked like a huge win for then-mayor Cory Booker and governor Chris Christie. But their plans soon ran into a constituency not so easily moved...
17) Chalk
Publisher
Arts Alliance America
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Follow the frenetic and awkwardly painful journey of three novice teachers as they navigate one memorable school year. Provides a teacher's perspective into the absurd, provocative and occasionally volatile world of public education.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A late-night call from her boss sends federal prosecutor Melanie Vargas to a vast Park Avenue apartment where two beautiful teenagers, students at a posh East Side girls' school, lie dead under suspicious circumstances. As determined as she is smart and ambitious, Melanie will do what it takes to get to the truth. But it's tough for a woman to focus on work when she's paired with a hot cop who has a talent for making her pulse race. Feeling pressure
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Looks at why many of America's schools are failing and relates how parents, activists, and education reformers are joining together to fix a system that works for adults but consistently fails the children it is meant to educate.
