Miseducated - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miseducated write by Brandon P. Fleming. This book was released on 2021-06-15. Miseducated available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An inspiring memoir of one man’s transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate—all by the age of twenty-seven. Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a nod to his skill on the basketball court, not his presence in the classroom. He turned to the streets and drug deals by fourteen, saved only by the dream of basketball stardom. When he suffered a career-ending injury during his first semester at a Division I school, he dropped out of college, toiling on an assembly line, until depression drove him to the edge. Miraculously, his life was spared. Returning to college, Fleming was determined to reinvent himself as a scholar—to replace illiteracy with mastery over language, to go from being ignored and unseen to commanding attention. He immersed himself in the work of Black thinkers from the Harlem Renaissance to present day. Crucially, he found debate, which became the means by which he transformed his life and the tool he would use to transform the lives of others—teaching underserved kids to be intrusive in places that are not inclusive, eventually at Harvard University, where he would make champions and history. Through his personal narrative, readers witness Fleming’s transformation, self-education, and how he takes what he learns about words and power to help others like himself. Miseducated is an honest memoir about resilience, visibility, role models, and overcoming all expectations.
Doing School
Doing School - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Doing School write by Denise Clark Pope. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Doing School available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a highly revealing and troubling view of today's high school students and the ways they pursue high grades and success. Denise Pope, veteran teacher and curriculum expert, follows five motivated and successful students through a school year, closely shadowing them and engaging them in lengthy reflections on their school experiences. What emerges is a double-sided picture of school success. On the one hand, these students work hard in school, participate in extracurricular activities, serve their communities, earn awards and honours, and appear to uphold school values. But on the other hand, they feel that in order to get ahead they must compromise their values and manipulate the system by scheming, lying, and cheating. In short, they do school, that is, they are not really engaged with learning nor can they commit to such values as integrity and community. The words and actions of these five students - two boys and three girls from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds - underscore the frustrations of being caught in a grade trap that pins future success to high grades and test scores. Their stories raise critical questions that are too important for parents, educators, and community leaders to ignore. Are schools cultivating an environment that promotes intellectual curiosity, cooperation, and integrity? Or are they fostering anxiety, deception, and hostility? Do today's schools inadvertently impede the very values they claim to embrace? Is the success that current assessment practices measure the kind of success we want for our children?
The Mis-education of the Negro
The Mis-education of the Negro - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mis-education of the Negro write by Carter Godwin Woodson. This book was released on 1969. The Mis-education of the Negro available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Miseducated
Miseducated - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miseducated write by Jason Wingerter. This book was released on 2007-02. Miseducated available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While spending his first three years as a high school English teacher in the small, blue-collar town of Yarseville, Jared Whitmore never imagined that he would soon come to learn more than he would ever teach. Filled with gossip, corruption, lies, sex scandals, and a host of other improprieties, the parents of this quaint little community would unknowingly have their children attend an academic institution of highly questionable moral practices. Take a journey through the eyes of Jared Whitmore as the decisions he makes regarding life give him an education of his own, wherein nothing would prepare him for what he would experience.
Miseducation
Miseducation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miseducation write by Katie Worth. This book was released on 2021-11-09. Miseducation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why are so many American children learning so much misinformation about climate change? Investigative reporter Katie Worth reviewed scores of textbooks, built a 50-state database, and traveled to a dozen communities to talk to children and teachers about what is being taught, and found a red-blue divide in climate education. More than one-third of young adults believe that climate change is not man-made, and science teachers who teach global warming are being contradicted by history teachers who tell children not to worry about it. Who has tried to influence what children learn, and how successful have they been? Worth connects the dots to find out how oil corporations, state legislatures, school boards, and textbook publishers sow uncertainty, confusion, and distrust about climate science. A thoroughly researched, eye-opening look at how some states do not want children to learn the facts about climate change.
