Download or read book Special Ed Is Down the Hall written by Marlin Duane Thomas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-11-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet Marlin Thomas was seven years old when he was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy; he wasn't expected to live past the age of seventeen. After Marlin died at the age of thirty, his mother, Cynthia Campbell, compiled this collection of poetry as a tribute to his life. Marlin's poems reflect his life, dreams, hopes, and commitment to the Disabled Rights Movement. He wrote his first poem when he was seven years old and continued to write until his death. His powerful poetry provides fodder for not only thinking about the experience of being disabled, but to feel it as well. In the poem "the little things," Marlin describes his feelings of loss with the progression of his disability: "I miss the gravel of a new driveway / crunching beneath my feet. / I miss jumping jacks and putting / my hand against my heart. / I miss the hated chore of Joy / dishwashing liquid scrubbing plates." Packed with emotion and written in modern free verse, Marlin's poetry provided an outlet for him to shout about inequality, to laugh about the absurd, to love intensely and passionately, and to ponder life's complexities. The book is comprised of five different categories: Childhood (Reality Checked)- detailing his childhood; Man Up- detailing his advocacy for disability rights; Random Perspective; Lovelorn; and Final Perspective. Please visit the website for Special Ed is Down the Hall for more information: www.specialedisdownthehall.net

Download or read book The Forgotten Ones written by Anne-Marie Henshel and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Forgotten Ones, originally published in 1972, Anne-Marie Henshel examines the lives of a group of persons living within the community who had been diagnosed at one time or another as mentally retarded. The analysis makes use of three sets of comparisons—Anglo and Chicano, married and single, male and female—and the subjects in each category are analyzed in terms of personal characteristics, employment situation, material possessions, living conditions, family background, social activities, and contacts with “officials”—including the police. In addition, Henshel gives a detailed presentation of the conjugal lives of the married subjects: mutual feelings, marital satisfaction, reproduction, parenthood. All data were gathered through three in-depth interviews with each subject, at intervals of about three months. In the case of a married respondent, the spouse was interviewed simultaneously, whenever possible, but separately. Interviewer was matched with subject by sex and ethnicity. Although the respondent’s reports were complemented by the interviewer’s perception, emphasis was placed on the individual’s perception of his or her own situation, and the data were analyzed accordingly. The predominant themes are cultural differences between the two ethnic groups, especially in marriage, the relative superiority of the married over the single, the advantages and disadvantages of the male and the female in view of sex-role norms, and some of the problems with which the respondents are besieged—on the whole, problems very similar to those of other poor people. All-pervasive are social isolation, loneliness, lack of money, deficient education, poor physical appearance, failure in birth-control efforts, the presence of handicapped children, and the need for humane guidance and training. Suggestions for improving relations with individuals once labeled retardates are presented in the last chapter.

Download or read book Beastiful written by A. H. Alonso and published by A. H. Alonso. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From witch bottles to witch balls and love potions, Belvina is willing to try it all. All seventeen year old Belvina wants is to go to prom. But since she goes from being one of the most beautiful girls in school to looking like a creature that you would only see in a Sci-Fi movie once it's dark out, there's no way she could ever go. She is cursed and the only way to break her curse is if someone were to love her the way she is at night. To help Belvina find the one that will love her, she is given a magical pendant that lets her know who is capable of breaking her curse. The problem is that there's not just one guy that can break it, but two. One of them is her boyfriend who she's always thought of as perfect and the other is the school's troublemaker who she's never gotten along well with. Between the two it seems like an easy choice but then Belvina finds out she's not the only one keeping a secret.

Download or read book The Specials 2 Special Effects written by Douglas Evans and published by WT Melon Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Special, the school superheroes and supersheroes--Jump Rope, Ace+, Spitball, Noise, and Gold Star. We’re glad they are at our school. This time the Specials do battle with Dr. TT, a former school principal who attempts to take control of the local school board and become School Board Emperor.

Download or read book Colormute written by Mica Pollock and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms. Viewing "race talk" through the lens of a California high school and district, Colormute draws on three years of ethnographic research on everyday race labeling in education. Based on the author's experiences as a teacher as well as an anthropologist, it discusses the role race plays in everyday and policy talk about such familiar topics as discipline, achievement, curriculum reform, and educational inequality. Pollock illustrates the wide variations in the way speakers use race labels. Sometimes people use them without thinking twice; at other moments they avoid them at all costs or use them only in the description of particular situations. While a major concern of everyday race talk in schools is that racial descriptions will be inaccurate or inappropriate, Pollock demonstrates that anxiously suppressing race words (being what she terms "colormute") can also cause educators to reproduce the very racial inequities they abhor. The book assists readers in cultivating a greater understanding of the pitfalls and possibilities of everyday race talk and clarifies previously murky discussions of "colorblindness." By bridging the gap between theory and practice, Colormute will be enormously helpful in fostering ongoing conversations about dismantling racial inequality in America.

Download or read book Confessions of a Special Ed Teacher written by Susan Cramer and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her debut work, Confessions of a Special Ed. Teacher, Susan Cramer tells of her feelings and experiences in her journey to teach these special children. Using a humorous style, Susan has created a book that will evoke in others a newfound hope, inspiration, and understanding of special needs children. Chapters in the book take the reader through the educational process of identifying children with emotional disabilities, creating an IEP, capturing and holding the attention of special needs children, making modifications and adaptations, and implementing behavioral strategies used in her classroom to attain academic and emotional success in the lives of her students. She sprinkles throughout the book controversial issues all too common in her profession: teacher burnout, overcrowded classrooms, budget shortfalls, ineffective administrators, pushy politicians, and absentee parents. She allows the reader to glimpse into her inner sanctum of the teacher's lounge and the antics that keep her of sane mind and body before and after school hours. Then she presents the reader with heart-wrenching stories about those special students who have touched her very soul. Through a combination of tough love, old-school tactics, compassion and humor the author is able to get the students to trust and open up to her in their quest to be successful for school. A "must read" for parents, educators, administrators and prospective collegiate education majors.

Download or read book An Angel For Toby written by Jenifer Manuel Aune and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the tender age of thirteen, Toby Meyers seemed to have everything stacked against him. Cerebral palsy that has disabled him from birth complicated by terrifying extrasensory powers of which he had little control. The greatest threat of all is his abusive, estranged father who represents a constant threat to his safety. His only saving grace is his unwavering Christian faith and his devoted mother. Now, a move to a new town and a new stepfather seemed like a new beginning, at least until his evil father showed up. Soon after, his loving mother is brutally murdered. Since that time, Toby's days are filled with fear, not only from his evil father but also from the extrasensory powers that fill his head with terrible visions. Jack Preston is the sole detective in the sleepy town of Leadville, Colorado, and Toby's only hope. As Jack tackles the complicated murder case with no clues and an elusive killer, he must also grapple with his own personal demons that plague his past and threaten his future. As time begins to run out, Jack struggles to do whatever is necessary to save Toby. Along the way he finds unexpected help from an angelic intervention that will change all of their lives forever.

Download or read book Lockdown High written by Annette Fuentes and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School violence has fallen steadily for twenty years. Yet in schools throughout the United States, Annette Fuentes finds metal detectors and drug tests for aspirin, police profiling of students with no records, arbitrary expulsions, armed teachers, increased policing, and all-seeing electronic surveillance. This climate of fear has permitted the imposition of unprecedented restrictions on young people's rights, dignity, and educational freedoms. In what many call the school-to-prison pipeline, the policing and practices of the juvenile justice system increasingly infiltrate the schoolhouse. These "zero tolerance" measures push the most vulnerable and academically needy students out of the classroom and into harm's way. Fuentes's moving stories will astonish and anger readers, as she makes the case that the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society with an unhealthy fixation on crime, security and violence.

Download or read book Down written by Mark Adam Kaplan and published by Mark Adam Kaplan. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 15-year old Leon Mendoza has enough to worry about trying to stay in the eighth grade and out of lock up. With a depressed mother, a father in jail, and his homies worried that he'll turn snitch, Leon's only chance is to keep it together at school, and hope for a break from the judge. When he steps in to keep a younger kid from being bullied at school, he sets off a series of events that threatens to tear his chances of survival to pieces. Can a proactive P.O., a part time job, and the love of a decent girl be enough to turn Leon's luck and keep him out of lock up?

Download or read book The Price We Pay for Illiteracy written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book GAMBLING PROSTITUTION AND DRUGS written by Fredrick L Toomer and published by F.READY PUBLISHING. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to GAMBLING PROSITUTION AND DRUGS. The names of some characters in this e-book have been changed to protect their identities. This e-book tells the story of a life, lived in the time and crimes of the corrupted NEW YORK CITY Streets. I had a lonely point in my life where I wanted to put all my life experiences on paper. It seems like this is only way I can cleanse myself and deal with the harsh realities that played in my life. In this book you will find what it means growing up in one of the most crime-infested areas on the southside Queens in New York City, inspired by an ambitious inclination for financial freedom. I got so lost in deed until one day I decided to take some unconventional risk. This book was written based on a true story and will give the horrific end to a life of crime please enjoy GAMBLING PROSTITUTION AND DRUGS

Download or read book Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key written by Jack Gantos and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this National Book Award finalist, Joey Pigza tries hard to be a good kid trapped in a wired body.

Download or read book With Honor in Hand written by Terron Sims and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Honor in Hand is the tale of two friends battling with a serious moral dilemma- a fight between the code of their profession vs. their code of honor. Mercenaries, the two friends, Douglas "Big Mac" Pollard and Amos Man Killer Stewart, are the truest of professionals and the best at what they do. They have never reneged on a contract, but now find themselves in a position where they wish they could exercise that option. As With Honor in Hand progresses, the coldhearted COL Drasneb unfolds his vengeful plan which strains Mac and Killer's moral fiber: destroying the West Point Corps of Cadets. Through the course of the explosive action, a newly tested hero emerges from amongst the chaos to save his brothers and sisters of the Corps.

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Teacher Education written by Myint Swe Khine and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive book presents emerging research findings and promising reform practices in the field of teacher education, curriculum, assessment, teaching and learning approaches, pedagogical innovations, and professional development in educating the next generation of globally competent students. It reflects the current trends and highlights contemporary teacher education programs in twenty greater Asian countries and regions. It offers insight into improving teacher education in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Indonesia, Brunei, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, and Macau. The handbook contains chapters written by experienced international teacher educators who draw on their experience and expertise to perennial issues and formidable challenges in teacher preparation and meaningful school reforms. This volume is a valuable resource and essential companion for teacher educators, faculty members, staff developers, trainee teachers, undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, school leaders, policy-makers, and professional learning communities to refresh their knowledge and improve their understanding. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in evolving issues in teacher education.

Download or read book Special Ed written by Edward A. Blake and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overweight young woman, newly widowed, with a child to support, decides to try her luck with the Internet, hoping to find love yet again. After a series of failed relationships, she finally meets that "SOMEONE SPECIAL." However, her "SOMEONE SPECIAL" turns into her worst nightmare

Download or read book Basic Needs written by Julie Landsman and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Basic Needs: A Year With Street Kids in a City School, Julie Landsman chronicles one year as a teacher in a program for students in such serious trouble they are asked to leave their middle schools and attend a special program for disruptive students. Landsman allows her readers to get to know the students, their home and street situations, and how their stories develop over the year, and in doing so, shows the complexity of young people, their beauty, and their individuality. This second edition is as current a story as the original: about kids in trouble and their resiliency. Landsman has added a foreword, afterword, and an extensive Resource Guide, which includes all the text of activities from Diversity Days, revolving around how to create a community in your classroom and includes ideas for every week of the school year. Landsman also includes a list of books to read over the summer for busy teachers. In total, the second edition of Basic Needs is a worthy follow-up to the highly praised original.

Download or read book The Kids from Nowhere written by Mr. George Guthridge and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heart-lifting story about "uneducable" children who lived on a wind-swept island in the Bering Sea, had no computers and few books, and spoke English as a second language. With the help of their dedicated and gifted teacher, they enter and win the student future problem solving competition for Alaska and compete nationally to win again.