Waiting for ""SUPERMAN""

Author: Participant Media
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1586489283
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Each book includes a 15 gift card from DonorsChoose.org to give to a classroom in need. The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop-outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future. By 2020, the United States will have 123 million high-skill jobs to fill -- and fewer than 50 million Americans qualified to fill them. Educators, parents, political leaders, business people, and concerned citizens are determined to save our educational system. Waiting for "Superman" offers powerful insights from some of those at the leading edge of educational innovation, including Bill and Melinda Gates, Michelle Rhee, Geoffrey Canada, and more. Waiting for "Superman" is an inspiring call for reform and includes special chapters that provide resources, ideas, and hands-on suggestions for improving the schools in your own community as well as throughout the nation. For parents, teachers, and concerned citizens alike, Waiting for "Superman" is an essential guide to the issues, challenges, and opportunities facing America's schools.

Waiting for ""SUPERMAN""

Author: Participant Media
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 1586489275
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
The Sundance award-winning documentary "Waiting for Superman" chronicles the efforts to improve America's education system. In this Participant Media Guide, leading educational reformers explore how to fix our broken public school system.

Lois and Clark

Author: C. J. Cherryh
Publisher: Boxtree
ISBN: 9780752211633
Category : Metropolis (Imaginary place)
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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Waiting for Superman

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Category : Documentaries (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
Languages : en
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The Infected: The Commissioner (2019-) #1

Author: Paul Jenkins
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Commissioner Gordon has dedicated his life to the safety of the citizens of Gotham City. Sure, he doesn’t wear a cape, but this hero has chosen a thankless job, because it’s the right thing to do. But what happens when Jim Gordon’s sense of duty and honor is stripped away? What happens when Gotham City’s greatest public pillar of justice finally says “enough”? Spinning out of the events of The Batman Who Laughs and Batman/Superman comes the story of a man who has finally given in to his worst impulses-and he might just take the entire city into the darkness with him...

Deadly Games

Author: M. J. Friedman
Publisher: HarperPrism
ISBN: 9780061010637
Category : Metropolis (Imaginary place)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
When beautiful Heiress Janna Leighton plans to invest millions in Metropolis's disadvantaged communities, she becomes the target of assassins. With Clark Kent by her side, Superman is able to protect her. But Lois Lane doesn't like being left out in the cold, and soon she finds herself caught up in something almost too hot to handle.

Waiting for Superman

Author: Davis Guggenheim
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Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Supergirl (2016-) #36

Author: Marc Andreyko
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Supergirl-the infected! Brainiac-1 attempts to contact Supergirl at the Fortress of Solitude, but for what nefarious purpose? No matter what he has planned, things are about to go from bad to worse as Supergirl heads on a collision course with the Batman Who Laughs! He’s targeted Superman as part of his plan to infect heroes and transform them into their twisted Dark Multiverse counterparts-but Supergirl gets caught in the crossfire, and the Year of the Villain stakes get even higher!

Justice League (2018-) #69

Author: Brian Michael Bendis
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 42

Book Description
The superspies of Checkmate poke their sneaky noses where they do not belong, and the Justice League are NOT happy about it. In fact, most of the League isn't even happy Checkmate exists, setting up Checkmate versus the Justice League! The superspies versus the super…guys. In Justice League Dark, Zatanna is locked in a battle with the greatest sorcerer of all time-Merlin!

Work Hard. Be Nice.

Author: Jay Mathews
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565126734
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that—and more. In their early twenties, by sheer force of talent and determination never to take no for an answer, they created a wildly successful fifth-grade experience that would grow into the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), which today includes sixty-six schools in nineteen states and the District of Columbia. KIPP schools incorporate what Feinberg and Levin learned from America's best, most charismatic teachers: lessons need to be lively; school days need to be longer (the KIPP day is nine and a half hours); the completion of homework has to be sacrosanct (KIPP teachers are available by telephone day and night). Chants, songs, and slogans such as "Work hard, be nice" energize the program. Illuminating the ups and downs of the KIPP founders and their students, Mathews gives us something quite rare: a hopeful book about education.