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This book is a guide to the expanding world of indie gaming. It
helps readers to understand why indie games are so important to so
many people in the entertainment industry. The book covers
puzzlers, platformers, beat 'em ups, shoot 'em ups, role-playing,
and strategy.
The statistics come as a total surprise to most: 45 percent of
college and university students do not enrol directly out of
school. Many are part-time students, people who are returning to
school after life intervened, or otherwise 'nontraditional'
learners-and this segment is growing. Back to School is the first
book to look at this population of 'second chancers', in a work
that Make magazine calls 'optimistic yet simultaneously realistic.'
Drawing on forty years of teaching and research, from primary
school to adult education and workplace training, award-winning
author Mike Rose reflects on questions related to public schooling
in America. He answers them in beautifully written chapters that
are both rich in detail - a first-grader conducting a science
experiment, a carpenter solving a problem on the fly, a college
student's encounter with a story by James Joyce - and informed by a
deep and powerful understanding of history, the psychology of
learning and the politics of education.
Proponents of education reform are committed to the idea that
all children should receive a quality education, and that all of
them have a capacity to learn and grow, whatever their ethnicity or
economic circumstances. But though recent years have seen numerous
reform efforts, the resources available to children in different
municipalities still vary enormously, and despite landmark cases of
the civil rights movement and ongoing pushes to enact diverse and
inclusive curricula, racial and ethnic segregation remain
commonplace. "Public Education Under Siege" examines why public
schools are in such difficult straits, why the reigning ideology of
school reform is ineffective, and what can be done about it."Public
Education Under Siege" argues for an alternative to the
test-driven, market-oriented core of the current reform agenda.
Chapters from education policy experts and practitioners critically
examine the overreliance on high-stakes testing, which narrows the
content of education and frustrates creative teachers, and consider
how to restore a more civic-centered vision of education in place
of present dependence on questionable economistic models. These
short, jargon-free essays cover public policy, teacher unions,
economic inequality, race, language diversity, parent involvement,
and leadership, collectively providing an overview of the present
system and its limitations as well as a vision for the fulfillment
of a democratic, egalitarian system of public
education.Contributors: Joanne Barkan, Maia Cucchiara, Ansley T.
Erickson, Eugene E. Garcia, Eva Gold, Jeffrey R. Henig, Tyrone C.
Howard, Richard D. Kahlenberg, Harvey Kantor, Michael B. Katz,
David F. Labaree, Julia C. Lamber, Robert Lowe, Deborah Meier,
Pedro Noguera, Rema Reynolds, Claire Robertson-Kraft, Jean C.
Robinson, Mike Rose, Janelle Scott, Elaine Simon, Paul
Skilton-Sylvester, Joi A. Spencer, Heather Ann Thompson, Tina
Trujillo, Pamela Barnhouse Walters, Kevin G. Welner, Sarah
Woulfin.
The award-winning account of how America's educational system fails
it students and what can be done about it Remedial, illiterate,
intellectually deficient-these are the stigmas that define
America's educationally underprepared. Having grown up poor and
been labeled this way, nationally acclaimed educator and author
Mike Rose takes us into classrooms and communities to reveal what
really lies behind the labels and test scores. With rich detail,
Rose demonstrates innovative methods to initiate "problem" students
into the world of language, literature, and written expression.
This book challenges educators, policymakers, and parents to
re-examine their assumptions about the capacities of a wide range
of students. Already a classic, Lives on the Boundary offers a
truly democratic vision, one that should be heeded by anyone
concerned with America's future. "A mirror to the many lacking
perfect grammar and spelling who may see their dreams translated
into reality after all." -Los Angeles Times Book Review "Vividly
written . . . tears apart all of society's prejudices about the
academic abilities of the underprivileged." -New York Times
Featuring a new preface for the 10th anniversary
As did the national bestseller "Nickel and Dimed," Mike Rose's
revelatory book demolishes the long-held notion that people who
work with their hands make up a less intelligent class. He shows us
waitresses making lightning-fast calculations, carpenters handling
complex spatial mathematics, and hairdressers, plumbers, and
electricians with their aesthetic and diagnostic acumen. Rose, an
educator who is himself the son of a waitress, explores the
intellectual repertory of everyday workers and the terrible social
cost of undervaluing the work they do. Deftly combining research,
interviews, and personal history, this is one of those rare books
that has the capacity both to shape public policy and to illuminate
general readers.
For the teacher Mrs Troyd, the pressure is on. Christmas is coming
to the little parish of Oddleton, and for Mrs Troyd Christmas means
the children's Nativity play, awaited with great anticipation (or
in some cases, trepidation) by the whole congregation. This year,
however, all is not going quite as planned. Joseph is too shy to
speak out loud enough to be heard. The little angels are squabbling
over which way up to hold the Baby Jesus, and to top it all, Mrs
Troyd's nemesis, Arianna le Grand, has taken her children (the
Angel Gabriel and the Third King) on an unexpected skiing holiday.
Who will stand in for the Angel Gabriel? Was it an unwise move for
the Shepherd to have eaten three packets of Sour Squigglers and a
Whistling Dayglo-pop before the play? And did donkeys wear
sombreros in Ancient Palestine? Whatever happens, this will be a
Nativity the parishioners will remember for a very long time....
The war with Germany had been over for two months. Still, more than
371,000 German soldiers were being held in prisoner of war camps in
the United States. Some would not make it home for two years. A few
would not make it home at all. Nine German soldiers lie in graves
in Salt Lake City, Utah. They were the tragic victims of a U.S.
Army Private, for reasons known only to himself, who climbed onto a
guard tower and opened fire with a .30 caliber machine gun into the
German prisoners of war sleeping below. Nine captives were killed,
twenty more were wounded. The "Salina, Utah, Massacre" is the story
of interned men living out the last days of a painful war, what led
to their being in a small corner of Utah farmland, and their hopes
and dreams that were all changed on one horific night. It is the
story of a cover-up by authorities and the remarkable resolve of a
small town whose people rose up to befriend, help and embrace those
who had once been the enemy. "They were just boys who wanted to go
home."
Just when you thought it was safe enough to read the contents of a
book, Twisted Tales was released. Compiling all new stories from
2004 - 2006 that thrill, chill and come direct from the twisted
mind that is Mike Rouse-Deane.
Journey to far away worlds, modern life scenarios and dark and
scary woods in this follow-up to Paperback Writer containing over
160 short stories all the twisted outcome of an over-imaginative
writer.
From the imagination of writer Michael Rouse-Deane comes a book
jam-packed with stories varying from the bizarre to the normal.
This collection of short stories shows the development of his
writing from 1992 to 2004--The Millennium Years, with the
bizarreness that can only come from a mind that constantly
over-imagines the world around him.
Michael merges both the normal workings of life, as well as the
future prospects of "what if," to give you over eighty stories of
immense strangeness and heartwarming pleasure. "Paperback Writer"
is Michael's first book, and contains the writer's comments on why,
how and what made him write such bizarre stories, commenting on
each one of his stories in the Writer's Commentary.
Delve into his bizarre universe and emerge with a different
perspective of the world around you. You won't be calling babies
"cute" anymore.
"This big-shouldered book, full of ardor...offers us a reasonable hope that with attention and care we can again make public education what it was meant to be, and must yet be."—The Los Angeles Times.
Featuring engaging narratives, this "how-to" book delves into
reflection as a concept and provides specific, replicable tools for
professional practice. Each chapter draws on a particular school
situation demonstrating the value of teacher reflection and
describing the nuts and bolts of the process, including protocols
for handling many different circumstances.
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