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Stop The Bus
Education Reform in 31 Days
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Stop the Bus is a collection of letters written to media editors throughout the country. The author's intent was to challenge America to think differently about education and to do more than accept the oft repeated diatribe about schools. The author believes America's educational system can be revitalized in 200 words per day over a 31 day period.
If You Came This Way
A Journey Through the Lives of the Underclass
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
At each stage of their lives—from infant cribs to teen dropouts to welfare dependents to basement shelters for the elderly—the people of the underclass are shunned by the rest of the population, even by the working poor. The cycle is vicious: Underclass children get little help in their own homes...
A Good Childhood
Searching for Values in a Competitive Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
Every day the newspapers lament the problems facing our children - broken homes, pressures to eat and drink, the stress of exams. The same issues are discussed in every pub and at every dinner party. But is life really more difficult for children than it was, and if so why? And how can we make it...
by Shelagh A. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2002
How do friends deal with betrayal, incest, rape, sexual promiscuity, and broken hearts? A town filled with wayward teenagers attempting to live an adult life, quickly learn that through all the hurt and pain, and through all the joy and laughter, all that glitters isn't gold. A dangerous mystery lies...
by UniversityParent
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
This guide to Murray State University is created especially for parents and families to help them navigate their student’s college experience. It answers key questions parents have about the university and includes links to further information. Parenting a college student comes with its own challenges...
by Pen
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Raising children isn't easy. But being a daughter isn't easy, either. Especially when the daughter wants to have her own life but the mother does everything in her power to prevent that. A poem of a mother and daughter. While eating at a restaurant, the daughter tells her mother, in no uncertain...
Families as Partners
The Essential Link in Children’s Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Families as Partners: The Essential Link in Children’s Education is a useful guide for families and a resource for education professionals who want to promote increased parental involvement at home and school. The book examines research and includes examples, illustrations, case studies, practices,...
Parenting with Love
Discussions on How to Create a Legacy of Love for Your Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
By working as a therapist, with families for over thirty-five years, Florence Bienenfeld, Ph.D., M.F.T. has put together the definitive guide for raising children to become loving and empowered adults. Using anecdotal case studies and contextual principles, Parenting with Love will teach you as parents:...
by LM Weddel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
The children of tomorrow are sent to our world to save it from the same fate that tore their world apart. A machine that was supposed to help mankind is instead corrupted by mankind. These children are the last hope to not only repair the time portal machine but to stop the "Hunter" which...
Rendezvous
In San Nicolas
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book is a collection of short stories, written from dreams and pictured images. Brazilian Roulette is one of them and is completely based on a dream, containing very little editing. It is about one scene where the action starts shortly after the first words are read and never stops thereafter....
I'm Perfect Just the Way I Am.
Yo Estoy Perfecto Como Estoy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
All young boys and girls want to be BIG. But when they realize that they are perfect right as they are, life begins!
Two Elephants in a Bathtub
Taking Care of Mom
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The doctors said Mom couldnt be alone. In June, I resigned from my teaching position, packed some belongings, and headed southwith three kids, two cats, and a dogto St Augustine, Florida, to take care of mom. Mom had been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a respiratory disease,...
The Accordion Family
Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents,and the Private Toll of Global Competition
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Why are adults in their twenties and thirties boomeranging back to or never leaving their parents' homes in the world's wealthiest countries? Acclaimed sociologist Katherine Newman addresses this phenomenon in this timely and original book that uncovers fascinating links between globalization and...
Arranged Marriages
In India
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
This is a story of two young hearts, who fall in love with each other. But how they met, where they met and ultimately what happened, is the story of arranged marriages