School Scandals: Blowing the Whistle on the Corruption of Our Education System (Thomson Pat)(Paperback)

School Scandals: Blowing the Whistle on the Corruption of Our Education System (Thomson Pat)(Paperback)

With almost daily reports of failings in school management, what can be done to improve educational outcomes for everyone? Pat Thomson takes on England's muddled education system, highlighting failings caused by the actions of ministers in successive governments. While corrupt actions are taken by

What's the Point of School?: Rediscovering the Heart of Education (Claxton Guy)(Paperback)

Why the education system is failing our kids and how we can start the revolution that will save our schools With their emphasis on regurgitated knowledge and stressful exams, today's schools actually do more harm than good. Guiding readers past the sterile debates about City Academies and

Karate Goju Ryu Meibukan (Opdam Lex)(Paperback)

This work reflects the system of education from the School of Dai Sensei Meitoku Yagi named the Meibukan. The Meibukan, in an educational sense, originated from the teachings of the Empty Hand that Chojun Miyagi adopted in his Goju-ryu Karate system and passed over to his student in turn, Meitoku

Life Lessons: The Case for a National Education Service (Benn Melissa)(Paperback)

A radical agenda to make our education system fit for the twenty-first centuryOur education system has been damaged by politicians who have arrogantly imposed a regime of market-driven reforms. It is time to reframe education as an essential public good, one arising from a hunger to find more

Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions (Burton Neel)(Paperback)

The emotions are utterly neglected by our system of education, leading to millions of mis-lived lives. This book proposes to redress the balance, exploring over 25 emotions and drawing some powerful and astonishing conclusions along the

We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption (Fenton Justin)(Pevná vazba)

The astonishing true story of 'one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation' (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter who exposed a gang of criminal cops and their yearslong plunder of an American city 'A work of journalism that not only chronicles

Learning to Teach Religious Education in the Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience (Barnes L. Philip)(Paperback)

The third edition of Learning to Teach Religious Education in the Secondary School draws together insights from current educational theory and the best contemporary classroom teaching and learning, and suggests tasks, activities and further reading designed to enhance the quality of initial school

Positive Education: The Geelong Grammar School Journey (Norrish Jacolyn M.)(Paperback)

As part of the Oxford Series in Positive Psychology, Positive Education: The Geelong Grammar School Journey is the story of one school's development of a more holistic comprehensive approach to education: one with student wellbeing at its heart. Balancing academic findings from the burgeoning

Lost Girls - Why a feminist revolution in education benefits everyone (Woolley Charlotte)(Paperback / softback)

An interrogation of the gender bias inherent in our education system and the damage it does to girls and boys, and an examination of the research that can change it all to create a more compassionate society that values traditionally female

Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security (Chayes Sarah)(Paperback)

The world is blowing up. Every day a new blaze seems to ignite: the bloody implosion of Iraq and Syria; the East-West standoff in Ukraine; abducted schoolgirls in Nigeria. Is there some thread tying these frightening international security crises together? In a riveting account that weaves history

The Magic School Bus Presents: Our Solar System: A Nonfiction Companion to the Original Magic School Bus Series (Jackson Tom)(Paperback)

THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS PRESENTS THE PLANETS is a photographic nonfiction companion book to the original bestselling title, THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS LOST IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM.LOST IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM taught thousands of kids about the planets, moons, stars, and everything else you'd want to know about

The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies (Thomson David)(Paperback)

The definitive story of the medium that defines our times The Big Screen tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence over us, and the technology that made the screen as important as the images it carries. But The Big Screen is not another history of

School of Pranks - The Ultimate Pranking Education (Phillips Ben)(Paperback / softback)

The Winter of Our Discontent (Steinbeck John)(Paperback)

The final novel of one of America's most beloved writers--a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisis A Penguin Classic In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had 'resumed his position as an

Schools of Our Own: Chicago's Golden Age of Black Private Education (Hayes Worth Kamili)(Paperback)

As battles over school desegregation helped define a generation of civil rights activism in the United States, a less heralded yet equally important movement emerged in Chicago. Following World War II, an unprecedented number of African Americans looked beyond the issue of racial integration by

Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education (Bauer Susan Wise)(Paperback)

Our K-12 school system isn't a good fit for all--or even most--students. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes children into a rigid set of grades with little regard for individual maturity, and slaps 'disability' labels on differences in learning style

Greenwild: The World Behind The Door - Pari Thomson

The thrilling first book in the most extraordinary new fantasy series of 2023.Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the earth itself . . .Daisy Thistledown has recently escaped from boarding school, and has a mystery to solve. The trail will

Introduction to Steiner Education - The Waldorf School (Edmunds Francis)(Paperback / softback)

Rudolf Steiner's educational system--long established and respected on the European continent--is gradually spreading around the world. Its radical principles, based on a view of the human being as composed of body, soul, and spirit, allows for a truly holistic and balanced education that nourishes

Reforming a School System, Reviving a City: The Promise of Say Yes to Education in Syracuse (Maeroff G.)(Pevná vazba)

Can a bold investment in education turn around the economy of an entire city? Gene I. Maeroff, former national education correspondent for the New York Times, explores how the nonprofit group Say Yes to Education has instituted a network of reforms in Syracuse, New York, that aim to expand the

Against Capitalist Education: What Is Education For? (Bakhshov Nadim)(Paperback)

Out there in the so-called real world the education system is being crushed by the demands of capitalism and, in turn, is crushing those who pass through it, reducing them, diminishing them. The dream of the economic functioning unit. How do we break this? We need alternatives but not just one or

System (The Killables Book Three) (Malley Gemma)(Paperback / softback)

Riveting, brilliantly imagined and passionate, The System is the mind-blowing conclusion to the Killables

Inside American Education (Sowell Thomas)(Paperback)

An indictment of the American educational system criticizes the fact that the system has discarded the traditional goals of transmitting knowledge and fostering cognitive skills in favor of building self-esteem and promoting social

Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth (Book 4) (Riordan Rick)(Paperback / softback)

Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. Honestly, blowing up another school was the last thing I wanted to do. As the son of a Greek God, I've had my share of near-death disaster - and now my arch enemy Luke wants to invade our camp via an ancient labyrinth. If he succeeds, thousands of bloodthirsty monsters

Renaissance - Assassin's Creed Book 1 (Bowden Oliver)(Paperback / softback)

The Year of Our Lord 1476 - the Renaissance: culture and art flourish the bloodiest corruption and violence. Bitter blood-feuds rage between the warring political families of Italy. Following the murder of his father and brothers, Ezio Auditore di Firenze is entrusted with an ancient Codex, the key