Download or read book Poison in the Ivy written by W. Carson Byrd and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of elite campuses is one of rarified social circles, as well as prestigious educational opportunities. W. Carson Byrd studied twenty-eight of the most selective colleges and universities in the United States to see whether elite students’ social interactions with each other might influence their racial beliefs in a positive way, since many of these graduates will eventually hold leadership positions in society. He found that students at these universities believed in the success of the ‘best and the brightest,’ leading them to situate differences in race and status around issues of merit and individual effort. Poison in the Ivy challenges popular beliefs about the importance of cross-racial interactions as an antidote to racism in the increasingly diverse United States. He shows that it is the context and framing of such interactions on college campuses that plays an important role in shaping students’ beliefs about race and inequality in everyday life for the future political and professional leaders of the nation. Poison in the Ivy is an eye-opening look at race on elite college campuses, and offers lessons for anyone involved in modern American higher education.

Download or read book Poisoned Ivy written by Benjamin Hart and published by New York : Stein and Day. This book was released on 1984 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his years as a Dartmouth student, argues that the school has an anti-religious, liberal bias, and describes the brief history of the conservative Dartmouth Review

Download or read book Poison Ivy written by Amy Goldman Koss and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "IwithVY: I told Ms. Gold about how The Evil Three have been after me, feeding off me since fourth grade. MARCO: It isn't a very pretty story, so if you're looking for 'nice,' you better ask someone else. ANN: We just have to come up wiht some witnesses for our side. Think! Does anyone owe you any favors? BRYCE: I figure, Dude, why not make a little spare change on the side? A buck a bet. All's I has to do was explain that liable was civil for guilty, and they swarmed like flies." Eight first-person narrators give different versions of the same event. Lessons about the inner workings of the judicial system pale beside the insights into human nature. With pathos and a great deal of humor, Amy Goldman Koss keeps you turning pages.

Download or read book Poisoned Ivy written by Eleanor Kerlow and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing and dispassionate look at the recent history of Harvard Law School recounts the ideological and political battles currently being waged over changes that have been made in the school's traditional style and focus.

Download or read book Poisoned Ivy written by Toni A. H. McNaron and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author, as well as faculty from a wide range of disciplines, geographical regions, and institutions, speak out about their ong-term experience in negotiating the difficult terrain of casual conversations with colleagues, departmental politics, and administration policies. In stark contrast to accounts of being denied tenure or promotion are testimonies about the elation that comes from doing lesbian/gay scholarship, political work on campus, or mentoring students and junior faculty.

Download or read book Poison Ivy Thorns written by Kody Keplinger and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author of The DUFF Kody Keplinger and artist Sara Kipin reimagine an iconic DC antihero with a gothic-horror twist. Pamela Isley doesn’t trust other people, especially men. They always want something from her that she’s not willing to give. When cute goth girl Alice Oh comes into Pamela’s life after an accident at the local park, she makes Pamela feel like pulling back the curtains and letting the sunshine in. But there are dark secrets deep within the Isley home. Secrets Pamela’s father has warned must remain hidden. Secrets that could turn deadly and destroy the one person who ever cared about Pamela, or as her mom preferred to call her...Ivy. Will Pamela open herself up to the possibilities of love, or will she forever be transformed by the thorny vines of revenge?

Download or read book Poison Ivy written by Evan Mandery and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The front-page news and the trials that followed Operation Varsity Blues were just the tip of the iceberg. Poison Ivy tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission available only to the wealthy, despite rhetoric to the contrary. Evan Mandery reveals how tacit agreements between exclusive “Ivy-plus” schools and white affluent suburbs create widespread de facto segregation. And as a college degree continues to be the surest route to upward mobility, the inequality bred in our broken higher education system is now a principal driver of skyrocketing income inequality everywhere. Mandery—a professor at a public college that serves low- and middle-income students—contrasts the lip service paid to “opportunity” by so many elite colleges and universities with schools that actually walk the walk. Weaving in shocking data and captivating interviews with students and administrators alike, Poison Ivy also synthesizes fascinating insider information on everything from how students are evaluated, unfair tax breaks, and questionable fundraising practices to suburban rituals, testing, tutoring, tuition schemes, and more. This bold, provocative indictment of America’s elite colleges shows us what’s at stake in a faulty system—and what will be possible if we muster the collective will to transform it.

Download or read book The Poison Ivy Oak Sumac Book written by Thomas E. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses five basic plants that are poisonous and cause rashes and examines the myths about these plants as well as "cures" and home remedies for the rashes that work, appear to work, or don't work at all.

Download or read book In Praise of Poison Ivy written by Anita Sanchez and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, poison ivy has bedeviled, inconvenienced, and downright tortured the human race. In Praise of Poison Ivy explores the question of why this plant is apparently on a mission to give us humans grief, from itchy ankles to life-threatening medical emergencies. This book also examines why poison ivy targets humans, but no other species, an

Download or read book Excellent Sheep written by William Deresiewicz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deresiewicz takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with demands for perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications received by college admissions committees. Students are losing the ability to think independently. College is supposed to be a time for self-discovery-- but the system is broken, and he offers solutions on how to fix it.

Download or read book Social Queue written by Kay Kerr and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny and insightful novel about an autistic teen who realises she's been missing all the signs when it comes to her romantic life.

Download or read book Poisoning the Ivy written by Michael Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a dirty book about higher education." So begins Michael Lewis's provocative new book, one that calls into question the conventional wisdom and about the excellence of American higher education. Lewis argues that teaching and research on America's campuses are plagued by mis- and malfeasance. He further argues that these troubles are the paradoxical implications of professorial self-conceptions. The academic claim of moral and ethical specialness, according to Lewis, unexpectedly creates an environment where hack work or even no work at all is tolerated and in some cases actually rewarded. Through his chapters on "The Seven Pedagogical Sins" and "The Bad Joke of Scholarship, " the author traces the trajectory of the effects of collective denial on the quality of education in America. In his final chapter, Lewis offers a series of reforms intended to reverse faculty permissiveness.

Download or read book Poison Ivy Cycle of Life and Death 2016 3 written by Amy Chu and published by DC. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the murder investigation at the lab deepens, a new surprise awaits Poison Ivy in the form of the growing hatched sporelings! As these new lifeforms test the limits of their power, will they soon outgrow the need for their creator?

Download or read book Ivy s Poison written by India R. Adams and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bors is hungry for revenge after one of his assignments spins out of control. Not only is he tortured by the man he was hired to murder, the president of a notorious and ruthless motorcycle club, but he's also left in the care of the man's deranged daughter, Ivy. And she knows exactly who is chained and at her mercy, the one she has wanted dead for three years.During captivity, Bors witnesses what has become of Ivy's life, and finds himself trapped between hatred and sorrow for his female tormentor."It only took one day for me to hate her more than my worst enemy.Only took two to start planning her death. And only three... to fall in love with her."Bors is an avenger. Especially Ivy's.*This book contains dark content, and triggers. Reader's discretion is advised*

Download or read book Poison Ivy Cycle of Life and Death written by Amy Chu and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects 'Poison Ivy: cycle of life and death,' #1-

Download or read book Ivy Poisoning written by New York (State). Department of Health and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book See My Lovely Poison Ivy written by Lilian Moore and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short poems about ghosts, bats, monsters, witches, and Halloween.