Greater Expectations
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Author | : William Damon |
Publisher | : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996-08-22 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780684825052 |
Greater Expectations is the book that exposed the low standards that children are confronted with in our homes, our schools, and throughout our culture. It exploded many of the misconceptions about children and how to raise them, including the cult of self-esteem, "child-centered" learning, and other overly indulgent practices that have been watering down the education and guidance that we are providing our young people. It disclosed how the self-centered ethic is damaging our youth. Greater Expectations started America talking about these issues and about how young people need to be provided with challenges and a sense of purpose if we want them to survive and thrive in life. Provocative and challenging, Greater Expectations was a wake-up call, a must-read for anyone concerned about the growing youth crisis in America and what we can do about it.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
One of the finest novels by iconic British author Charles Dickens, this Victorian tale follows the good-natured orphan Pip as he makes his way through life. As a boy, Pip crosses paths with a convict named Magwitch, a man who will heavily influence Pip’s adulthood. Meanwhile, the earnest young man falls for the beautiful Estella, the adoptive daughter of the affluent and eccentric Miss Havisham. Widely considered to be Dickens's last great book, the story is steeped in romance and features the writer's familiar themes of crime, punishment, and societal struggle.
Author | : Landon Y. Jones |
Publisher | : Booksurge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-04-02 |
Genre | : Baby boom generation |
ISBN | : 9781419693663 |
This is the first and still-definitive account of the origins, impact, culture, and future of the baby-boom generation, the most influential in American history.
Author | : Dan Brown |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2011-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1611450330 |
Traces the author's turbulent first year working as a teacher of disadvantaged students in the Bronx, describing his difficulties with such challenges as unruly students, absent parents, and a failing administration, obstacles that placed his career choice in question and revealed formidable flaws in the educational system.
Author | : Jonathan Skinner |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0857452789 |
The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process – one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only affect the lives and experiences of tourists, but also their hosts, and play an important part in the success or failure of the overall tourism experience. It is for this reason, the authors argue, that special attention should be given to how expectations constitute and sustain tourism. The case studies presented here explore what fuels the desires to visit particular places, to what degree expectations inform the experience of the place, and the frequent disjunctions between tourist expectations and experiences. Careful attention is paid to how the imagination of the visitor inspires the imagination of the host, and vice-versa; how tourists and host communities actively imagine, re-imagine, and shape each other’s lives. This realization, has profound consequences, not solely for academic analysis, but for all those who participate in and work within the tourism industry.
Author | : Robin Turner |
Publisher | : Stenhouse Publishers |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1571107401 |
A practical teaching guide to improving academic performance and test scores for underrepresented students.
Author | : Becky Dean |
Publisher | : Delacorte Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2022-06-14 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0593429427 |
An American girl embarks on a competitive scavenger hunt in England—and along the way, meets up with a bookish British boy who can't help her with the clues . . . but might make the trip take some unexpected turns. Britt Hanson has always preferred scoring goals on the soccer field to analyzing dusty old books. But when an injury ends her dream to play in college, she jumps at the chance to compete in a scavenger hunt in England that takes her to the locations of classic novels—the prize money would change her life! Once in the UK she meets bookish and very British Luke Jackson. He can’t actually help her with any of the clues (against the rules), but something about Luke compels her to invite him to join her. She wouldn’t mind getting to know him—and listening to his accent. To win, Britt must outsmart three competitors who aren’t afraid to play dirty while solving clues and traveling around the English countryside. Along the way, Britt learns that sometimes you have to follow the map and other times, you need to throw caution to the wind and see where the cobblestoned road leads you.
Author | : Barbara Dayer Gallati |
Publisher | : Bulfinch |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2004-10-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780821261682 |
Sargent's reputation is often defined by his remarkable achievements as a painter of sophisticated society portraits. However, as this innovative examination of his career reveals, he created a significant number of childrens portraits and genre paintings featuring children. The title of the book makes ironic reference to Charles Dickens's famous novel Great Expectations, and is used here to suggest how Sargents paintings of children related to the expectations associated with representations of childhood in the art and literature of Sargents day. The book also traces how Sargent ultimately advanced childhood as an artistic subject. The book contains five essays by three notable curators and professors of fine arts, is illustrated with Sargents truly stunning and often lesser-known paintings of children, and includes Sargent family photographs, some of which are previously unpublished.
Author | : Eve Bearnes |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1995-11-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0826435424 |
The first two sections of this work consider two questions: what does children's writing reveal about their reading experience and competence?; and how can teachers help children to become more careful and critical readers of their own and other people's writing?. In the third section these questions are placed in a theoretical frame which tackles some of the more fundemental issues of culture, language diversity and gender, the relationship between oracy and literacy and how best to help children for whom literacy is a struggle. The final section gives some practical guidance for developing a full and successful literacy curriculum.
Author | : John C. Carr |
Publisher | : Sterling/Joost Elffers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Father and infant |
ISBN | : 9781402756306 |
Guides prospective fathers in parenting from pregnancy to the third year, providing advice for practical and emotional challenges, pinpointing developmental milestones, and detailing the role of a father in a child's life.