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Goldstein, Dana

Summary: A history of 175 years of teaching in America demonstrates that teachers have always borne the brunt of shifting, often impossible expectations. In other nations, public schools are one thread in a quilt that includes free universal childcare, health care, and job training. Here, schools are the whole cloth. Today we look around the world at countries like Finland and South Korea, whose...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 GOL

Hoose, Phillip M.

Summary: "By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten black teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in Indiana shattered the myth of their inferiority. Their brilliant coach had fashioned an unbeatable team from a group of boys born in the South and raised in poverty. Anchored by the astonishing Oscar Robertson, a future...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 796.323 HOO

Summary: Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRA

Hager, Thomas

Summary: During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country's poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's "Detroit of the South" would be ten times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.980 HAG

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