Poverty Schools

Bloomsbury presents Tackling Poverty and Disadvantage in Schools: Understand more deeply and better address inequalities in your school by Sean Harris and Katrina Morley read by George Potts Actionable, road-tested approaches to understanding and tackling poverty in schools The stark reality of...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New...

At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends. Until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is...

In Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It, veteran educator and brain expert Eric Jensen takes an unflinching look at how poverty hurts children, families, and communities across the United States and demonstrates how schools can improve the academic achievement and life readiness of economically disadvantaged students. 

Nick Gautier's day just keeps getting better and better. Yeah, he survived the zombie attacks, only to wake up and find himself enslaved to a world of shapeshifters and demons out to claim his soul. His new principal thinks he's even more of a hoodlum than the last one, his coach is trying to...

Graduating from Poverty: the Financial Education School forgot Table of Contents Introduction: The Education Illusion The False Promise of Traditional Education Why Academic Success Doesn’t Guarantee Financial Success Understanding the Disconnect Between Schooling and Wealth Part I: The Problem – Why Traditional Education Keeps You Poor Chapter 1: The Education Trap – A Job-Oriented Mindset The Focus on Job Security and Climbing the Corporate Ladder How Traditional Education Conditions You to Be a Worker, Not a Wealth Creator Chapter 2: What Schools Don’t Teach About Money The Lack ...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER! An unflinching memoir about navigating social mobility as a first gen Latina, offering both a riveting personal story and an examination of the unacknowledged emotional tolls of being a trailblazer. "This is literary love medicine, a book you will not soon forget.”...

The 11-year-old school bully has gone missing- seemingly vanished into thin air. Everyone says that they know nothing about her mysterious disappearance... ...everyone is lying. Nelly Chester gave a lot of people a lot of reasons to dislike her. She had no respect for authority; was a burden on her poverty-stricken parents; routinely broke all the rules and, worst of all, was a nasty, vicious and merciless bully. So when Nelly disappears from school one Friday afternoon, at first all fingers are pointed at the mother of one of her weakest victims... until the police discover that the ...

A New York Times Best Seller "Essential reading for all adults who work with black and brown young people...Filled with exceptional intellectual sophistication and necessary wisdom for the future of education."—Imani Perry, National Book Award Winner author of South To America An award-winning...

This program is read by the author "Just brilliant."—Kirkus Reviews Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence, depression, racism, and sexism—all through the arc of a transcendent...

Speaking Volumes Christian Book of the Year 2016 In 1992, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow was enjoying a pint with his brother when he got an idea that would change his life – and radically change the lives of others. After watching a news bulletin about war-torn Bosnia, the two brothers agreed to...

Think you have a lot of pressure on your shoulders? Nick Gautier was born to bring about the end of the world . . . it's not easy being the heir of a demon overlord. But in Invision, Nick is determined to thwart his destiny and get into a good college. To be more than his genetics and prophecy...

In Inferno, the fourth novel in the bestselling Chronicles of Nick series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon, the heat is on, and a new threat to humanity has risen . . . Nick has his driver's license and he's not afraid to use it. But turning sixteen isn't what he...

The world has fallen in love with Nick Gautier and Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter novels. Now Nick's saga continues in Infamous, the next eagerly anticipated volume in the Chronicles of Nick series... Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That's the mandate for most kids. But Nick...

For much of the twentieth century, Britain removed thousands of children from their families and placed them in approved schools and borstals, institutions created in the name of reform, training, and care. This book examines how those systems worked, who was sent away, and what life inside was really like. Drawing on historical records and survivor testimony, it explores the daily routines of discipline and labour, the blurred line between care and punishment, and the long-term consequences for those who passed through institutional walls. Approved schools replaced Victorian reformatories ...

Zombies, demons, vampires, shapeshifters— another day in the life of Nick Gautier– and those are just his friends. But now that he's accepted the demon that lives inside him, he must learn to control it and temper the very emotions that threaten the lives of everyone he cares for. Something...

Be careful what you wish for . . . You just might get it. Nick Gautier is tired of his destiny. He doesn't want to be the son of a demon who's fated to end the world. Nor does he want to see another demon or other preternatural creature who wants to kill or enslave him. He just wants to be...

This book is the culmination of a lifetime of love and lessons that have shaped my personal journey from a young man in crisis to a champion for children. There were critical moments in my story where self-appointed “Hope Dealers” like my mother, Alice Lovelace, and my educator, Dr. Lorraine Wilson, intervened in my projected course to failure. The lessons I learned from them became the foundation of my own work with and for young people facing challenges that they often did not believe they can face alone: hopelessness, shame, disability, tragic home life, generally summed up as the ...

Most twelve-year-old boys are preoccupied with comics and playing with their friends. Twelve-year-old Frank Heeney, however, is about to start three years of hell at Ireland’s notorious St. Joseph’s Industrial School in Letterfrack County Galway. St. Joseph’s is an inferno of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of the administrators. Many children, some as young as four, die from such conditions and are secretly disposed of in the surrounding wilderness. As Frank spends three years at St. Joseph’s Letterfrack and two years at St. Patrick’s children’s prison, he is...

In this concise manual, Dr Casey Handmer integrates his recent experiences over five years in the Caltech graduate school of astrophysics into a constructive, positive survival guide for budding academics. Learn how to avoid the most common mistakes and minimize the risk of research distraction. Read tips for dealing proactively with every variety of organization and personal challenge. Dr Handmer made the mistakes so you don't have to.