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Pub. Date:
[2010]
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English
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Since the early 1990s, thanks to inflamed rhetoric in the media about “superpredators” and a wave of get-tough-on-crime laws, the number of juveniles in prison has risen by 35 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, and their placement in adult prison has increased by 208 percent, according to a 2007 survey by the Campaign for Youth. Since 1992, every state except Nebraska has passed laws making it easier to prosecute youth...
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Pub. Date:
[2016]
Language:
English
Description:
Documents how a magnetic young principal created a path-breaking school in one of New York City's poorest neighborhoods.
Mott Hall Bridges Academy isn't a typically underserved public school in one of New York City's most underprivileged communities-- it is a school that glows with energy and excitement. It was an uphill battle to get the school launched, to recruit faculty and students, to solve a million new problems every day from violent crime...
Pub. Date:
[2006]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Pierre is a ballroom-dance instructor with courtly manners whose pupils tend to be well-heeled teenagers. Partly as a dare and partly as a joke, he is offered the job of supervising a South Bronx high school detention class, where the students regard him as a visitor from the moon. They resist him, but he fascinates them, and before long, Pierre has talked them into learning a few steps. He even suggests that if they work hard enough, they might have...
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English
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After her husband's death, the author, devoting herself to radically reinventing public education, recounts the journey that led her to risk her life savings to open schools in Harlem while proving that even children living in poverty could learn at a high level.
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Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
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Fertig tells the inspiring, heartbreaking stories of three young people as they struggle to learn to read before it is too late. At the same time, the author tells a story of great change in schools as teachers and parents question the meaning of education as never before.
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Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
"ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching teens while they await sentencing. Told with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, ALL DAY recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island Academy, the high school for inmates detained at New York City's Rikers Island. A poet and actress who had done occasional...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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An intriguing portrait of African-American activist Geoffrey Canada, creator of the Harlem Children's Zone, describes his radical new approach to eliminating inner-city poverty, one that proposes to transform the lives of poor children by changing their schools, their families, and their neighborhoods at the same time.
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Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure:
920L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
In this tribute to teachers everywhere. McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. His methods anything but conventional, McCourt creates a lasting impact on his students through imaginative assignments, singalongs and field trips. As he struggles to find his way in the classroom, he spends his evenings drinking with writers and dreaming of one day putting his own story to paper. The book...
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Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
College dean and prominent historian Jean Sheridan heads to her hometown of Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, where she is slated to be honored at her twenty-year class reunion, not realizing she is the target of a former classmate who has concocted a plan to get even with all the people who tortured him as a youth.
Author:
Pub. Date:
2016
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...
16. Freestyle
Author:
Pub. Date:
2022
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 320L
Language:
English
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From New York Times bestselling author Gale Galligan, a fun, high-energy graphic novel about friendship, family, and the last hurrahs of middle school.Cory's dance crew is getting ready for a major competition. It's the last one before they graduate eighth grade and go their separate ways to high schools all over New York City, so they have to make it count! The group starts to have problems as their crew captain gets increasingly...
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NoveList Series:
Heather Wells mysteries volume 1.
Series:
Heather Wells mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Father in jail, mother a bolter, dumped by fiancé, and also a hasbeen pop sensation: Heather Wells needs a change in fortune. Things seem to be looking up when she lands a job looking after a college dormitory -- until the young girls in the dormitory begin to die under suspicious circumstances.