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In the first half of the 20th century, Dunbar was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law. By the 1950s, Dunbar High School was sending 80 percent of its students to college. Today, as with too many troubled urban public schools, the majority of Dunbar students struggle with reading and math. Journalist and author Alison Stewart, whose parents were both Dunbar graduates, tells the story of the school’s rise, fall, and path toward resurgence.

In collaboration with the United Nations, UNICEF, and other NGOs, Sadika Kebbi visited struggling neighborhoods to help the most in need. After gaining people’s trust, the most heartbreaking real stories began to unfold.

Teaching has never been easy, but these days, it seems to keep getting harder. As the pressure builds, many educators are calling it quits on a profession that once felt like a calling. Planning to Stay offers a hopeful alternative.

Written by the premier author in Windows software, William Stanek, and addressing the needs of computer users everywhere regardless of skill level, Windows Media Player 11 Classroom-To-Go is designed to help you build your Windows Media Player knowledge.

Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the Black middle class. The result of living for three years in "Groveland", a Black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy has written a book that explores both the advantages and the boundaries that exist for members of the Black middle class.

In No Longer Newsworthy, Martin covers this shift in focus, the loss of political voice for the working class, and the emergence of a more conservative media in the form of Christian television, talk radio, Fox News, and conservative websites...Martin offers the mainstream media recommendations for how to push back against right-wing media and once again embrace the working class as critical to its audience and its democratic function.

The DSST Business Ethics and Society DANTES Test Study Guide teaches you what you need to know to pass the DSST test. This study guide is more than just a book of sample test questions. Our easy-to-understand study guide will teach you the information. We've condensed what you need to know into a manageable book—one that will leave you completely prepared to tackle the test. This study guide includes sample test questions that will test your knowledge and teach you new material. Use this book to memorize key concepts and terms.

Offering a nuanced and transformative take on immigration, multiculturalism, and America's role on the global stage, The Newcomers follows and reflects on the lives of 22 immigrant teenagers throughout the course of their 2015-2016 school year at Denver's South High School. Unfamiliar with American culture or the English language, the students range from the ages of 14 to 19 and come from nations struggling with drought, famine, or war.

A Room of His Own sheds light on the mysterious ways of male associational culture as it examines such topics as fraternity, sophistication, nostalgia, social capital, celebrity, gossip, and male professionalism. The story of clubland (and the literature it generated) begins with Britain's military heroes home from the Napoleonic campaign and quickly turns to Dickens's and Thackeray's acrimonious Garrick Club Affair.

For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with Black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the Black Mecca." Atlanta's long tradition of Black education dates back to Reconstruction, and produced an elite that flourished in spite of Jim Crow, rose to leadership during the civil rights movement, and then took power in the 1970s by building a coalition between White progressives, business interests, and Black Atlantans. But Atlanta's political leadership has consistently mishandled the Black poor.

In Moving Up, Moving Out, Will Cooley discusses the damage racism and discrimination have exacted on black Chicagoans in the 20th century, while accentuating the resilience of upwardly mobile African Americans. Cooley examines how class differences created fissures in the black community and produced quandaries for black Chicagoans interested in racial welfare. While black Chicagoans engaged in collective struggles, they also used individualistic means to secure the American Dream.

The Art of the Western World DANTES/DSST Study Guide teaches you everything that you need to know to pass the DSST test. This study guide is more than just lines of sample test questions. Our easy-to-understand study guide will teach you the information. We've condensed what you need to know into a manageable audiobook - one that will leave you completely prepared to tackle the test. This study guide includes sample test questions that will test your knowledge and teach you new material.

Let your imagine fly with our Physics Study Guide. Not only will we provide you with all you need to know for your physics iGCSE but we will take you on a journey to far-flung places, really bringing the wonderful world of physics alive. Full of sound effects to help cement important points, each chapter will furnish you with the information to help you understand key concepts and excel in your learning.

How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? We're supposed to go to university, forge a career, get wealthier, buy a house - but why is that so hard for most of us to achieve? Split makes sense of our world by looking at class society - delving into the deep-rooted economic inequalities that shape our lives. From the gig economy, rising debt, and the housing crisis that affects the majority of people, to the world of tax havens and unfair inheritance that affect the few...now is the time to fight back against the one percent.

This book outlines the benefits of completing your pre-professional course requirements at a community college with sound advice regarding coursework, the professional entrance exam, and interview for pre-nursing, pre-pharmacy, and pre-med students.

Join bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst for Becoming More Than A Good Bible Study Girl, a six-session audio Bible study that helps you figure out how to trade in going through the motions for the spiritual healthy and vibrant life for which you long. “I really want to know God, personally and intimately.” Do those words resonate with you? You’re tired of just going through the motions of being a Christian: Go to church. Pray. Be nice. That spiritual to-do list just doesn’t cut it. But what does?

Fühlen Sie sich ausgelaugt in Ihrem Beruf? Machen Ihnen Ihre Schüler das Leben zur Hölle? Fällt es Ihnen schwer, morgens aufzustehen, weil Sie sich vor dem Schulalltag fürchten? Dann kann Ihnen mit diesem Buch geholfen werden. Der Job eines Lehrers ist nicht leicht. Störungen und provozierende Schüler können Ihnen den Schulalltag maßgeblich erschweren und jeglichen Spaß am Unterrichten rauben. Besonders in diesem Berufsfeld ist die Gefahr eines Burn-outs nicht zu unterschätzen.

Gerade eben war alles perfekt. Die Schüler sind konzentriert und aufmerksam, der gut vorbereitete Unterricht fließt fast wie von selbst und so könnte es immer weitergehen. Tut es aber nicht, denn im Klassenzimmer nebenan wird bekannt, dass der Englisch-Test ausfällt, der Kollege ist krank. Drüben bricht die Hölle los. Vor Freude wird geschrien, Stühle krachen auf den Boden. Dahin ist der perfekte Flow in Ihrer Klasse, die Schüler sind abgelenkt, machen Bemerkungen, werden unruhig. Was jetzt?

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First published in 1978, Palestinian American historian Hanna Batatu's The Old Social Classes is considered to be the definitive social history of 20th century Iraq. Tom Nieuwenhuis, a scholar specializing in the region, called it "the best, most detailed modern history of any Arab country," while an entire conference was held in 1989 to discuss its implications.