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Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The teenage life and adventures of young José, who lives in a shanty-town on Martinique in the mid-1930s, comprises the body of this film. José lives with his grandmother and is well aware of the French colonial presence. He gets into mischief, learns valuable lessons on living from an old former slave, drinks too much one time, and even sets fire to one of the run-down shanties. Regardless of his pranks, José never neglects his education.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
iv, 328 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Washington Post education reporter Mathews delves into the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) and follows the enterprise's founders, Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, from their days as young educators in the Teach for America program to heading one of the country's most controversial education programs running today.
Author
Publisher
Harvard Education Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this incisive and practical book, H. Richard Milner IV provides educators with a crucial understanding of how to teach students of color who live in poverty. Milner looks carefully at the circumstances of these students' lives and describes how those circumstances profoundly affect their experiences within schools and classrooms. In a series of detailed chapters, Milner proposes effective practices--at district and school levels, and in individual...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability....
Language
English
Description
Candy manufacturer Willy Wonka has a contest and hides five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. All five ticket winners get a free tour of the mysterious Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of Wonka candy. Four of the children are nasty brats who are punished by Willie Wonka with various diabolical, but funny, methods. Only Charlie, a likeable child, wins the heart of the manufacturer.
30) Crossed swords
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A poor commoner, accidentally meets Edward, Prince of Wales, and they are struck by their similarity of appearance. After switching clothes as a practical joke, they are unexpectedly separated and forced to take on the other's life. Everything goes completely haywire when the King suddenly dies, leaving Tom to inherit the throne while Edward must convince the people that he is really the new King of England.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newark's rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed, he vowed to turn his life around. A former high-school pitching ace with a 93 mph fastball, Mason decided to form a Little League team to help boys avoid the street life that had claimed his youth and mobility. Predictably, the players struggle--they endure poverty, unstable family lives with few positive male role models, failing schools, and dangerous...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xix, 266 pages ; 22 cm
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 Citys 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...
Series
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After the death of Ceddie's English father, he and his mother live together in Brooklyn during the 1880s. Ceddie's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, had disowned Ceddie's father when he married an American. But when the Earl's remaining son dies, he accepts Ceddie as Lord Fauntleroy, his heir, and sends for Ceddie and his mother. Ceddie uses the first of his newly found wealth to do some favors for his old friends, then heads to England, where...
Author
Publisher
Suncoast Digital Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
vii, 185 pages : appendices, photographs, illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
In her autobiography, E. (Emily) Marie Oberle, addresses growing up poor in rural Kentucky in the nineteen-thirties and forties. She writes about growing up, marriage, playing tennis, traveling, and earning a doctorate in adult education.
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