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Ice Princess (DVD)
Joan Cusack, Kim Cattrall, Michelle Trachtenberg, Hayden Panettiere, Trevor Blumas, …
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R55
Discovery Miles 550
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Coming-of-age comedy starring Michelle Trachtenberg, Joan Cusack
and Kim Cattrall. Though she longs to become a graceful champion
figure skater, gawky Casey Carlyle (Michelle Trachtenberg) has
always been just a brainy high school misfit, and with a
strong-willed mother pushing her towards a top university, it seems
as if she'll never get the chance to be like the elite skating
prodigies she sees at the rink. But when Casey uses her head and
follows her heart she'll find herself transformed beyond her
wildest dreams.
How do we recognize the 'wounds' caused by outdated schooling
policies? How do we heal them? In her provocative new book,
education writer and critic Kirsten Olson brings to light the
devastating consequences of an educational approach that values
conformity over creativity, flattens students' interests, and
dampens down differences among learners. Drawing on deeply
emotional stories, Olson shows that current institutional
structures do not produce the kinds of minds and thinking that
society really needs. Instead, the system tends to shame, disable,
and bore many learners. Most importantly, she presents the
experiences of wounded learners who have healed and shows what
teachers, parents, and students can do right now to help themselves
stay healthy.
The Legacy of John Holt contains sixteen portraits of a radical
teacher and writer whose ten books and work influenced
schoolteachers and homeschoolers to help children learn in their
own ways. Written by friends, colleagues, and homeschoolers who
knew Holt personally, this book sheds new light on a pivotal figure
in American education whose work continues to inspire the
homeschooling movement (which Holt called "unschooling"). People
who knew Holt from his college days until his death share stories
and details about him that bring his quiet but forceful personality
to life for readers and present his ideas about children and
learning as part of their own lives, not just theory. "So many of
the voices that we now need desperately to hear seem to have faded
in the media-celebrity din: Paul Goodman, Ivan Illich, John Holt,
to name three who told the raw truth about modern education.
Perhaps their relative obscurity today is because they were not
empire-builders, gathering disciples, but old-fashioned prophets,
letting the chips fall where they may. This new collection of
testimony from those who knew John Holt well suggests still another
explanation. Here we see how influence grows not by the
establishment of reputations, but by inspiration-to pursue one's
own truth, bestow one's own gifts. This is a heartening realization
in our dark times." -Taylor Stoehr, author of Changing Lives:
Working with Literature in an Alternative Sentencing Program and
The Paul Goodman Reader "John Holt departed altogether too soon.
Thank God he left behind Pat Farenga to help lead the effort to
make Holt's deep wisdom about children available to a new
generation of parents and teachers. The contributors to Pat and
Carlo's book bear witness to the currency of Holt's work and
provide us with poignant and intimate glimpses of the person behind
the ideas. I feel like I know John so much better now." -Chris
Mercogliano, author of Making It Up As We Go Along, the Story of
the Albany Free School; Teaching the Restless; How to Grow a
School; and In Defense of Childhood. "Where the hell would we be
without John Holt? When I first encountered him a couple of decades
ago, like so many others I was immediately thrilled, and quickly
read everything he'd ever written. I figured I had a pretty good
handle on his thinking and understood why he mattered so much. But
over and over again through the years he keeps coming back to me. I
keep remembering things he has said and keep realizing that I still
don't fully grasp the radical depth and scope of his ideas. So
often I feel like I have broken a new intellectual trail for myself
or like maybe I have a good new idea, and then I realize, naw, John
Holt said that better than you, just thirty-years ago. And how
great is that?This book is one more reminder of that, and a sweet
one at that" -Matt Hern, author of A Radical Handbook for Youth;
Field Day; and Deschooling Our Lives. John Holt gained fame in the
1960s as an insightful school critic with his books How Children
Fail and How Children Learn, both of which are still in print and
combined have sold nearly 2 million copies. Frustrated by the slow
pace of change in schools, Holt became one of the founders of the
homeschooling movement in 1977, when he published the first
magazine about learning outside school, Growing Without Schooling.
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