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Children Children Social conditions Children with disabilities Children with social disabilities United States Discrimination against people with disabilities Law and legislation Educational equalization United States Language arts Remedial teaching Learning disabilities Treatment People with disabilities Finance, Personal United StatesShaw, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.9289 SHAKarr-Morse, Robin.
Summary: One in twenty children born today will spend some part of his or her adult life in jail. During the last thirty years, violent crimes committed by youth have risen by 371 percent. Cutting to the heart of this alarming trend, Ghosts from the Nursery gives startling new evidence that violent behavior is fundamentally linked to abuse and neglect in the first two years of life.In absorbing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Atlantic Monthly Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 KARBurgan, Michael.
Summary: Enhanced by primary documents, period photographs, and timelines, provides an introduction to the lives of America's newsboys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 331.318 BURBudge, Kathleen M.
Summary: Drawing upon decades of research and myriad authentic classroom experiences, Kathleen Budge and William Parrett dispel harmful myths, explain the facts, and urge educators to act against the debilitating effects of poverty on their students. They share the powerful voices of teachers - many of whom grew up in poverty - to amplify the five classroom practices that permeate the culture of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ASCD 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.2 BudWexler, Natalie
Summary: "The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult WexlerMills, Kay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.21 MILKozol, Jonathan
Summary: "An eloquent and passionate call for educational reparations, from the New York Times bestselling author"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.2 KOZUrbatsch, Kevin
Summary: Presents advice on setting up and managing a special needs trust, covering trust benefits, funding, duties of trustees, pooled trusts, taxes, wills, and death of beneficiaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.05 URBFranklin, Daniel
Summary: "Based in cutting-edge research in neuroscience, education, and the principles of attachment-based teaching, this important guide for parents offers tools and practices to help children transcend language-based learning difficulties, do better in school, and gain self-confidence and self-esteem. If your child has a language-based learning difficulty--such as dyscalculia, dyslexia, and auditory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2018
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Summary: "An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.3 MATQuick, Megan
Summary: "Life in colonial America differed depending on where you lived. Some places depended on the body of water they lived by. Some places were already bustling towns. But no matter the colony, one way America grew was through the kids that lived and grew up there! In this book, readers delve into the family life, schooling, food, clothing, and other ways of life of kids who lived during the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2024