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xv, 396 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Follows the lives of twenty-two immigrant teenagers from nations devastated by drought or famine or war, over the course of their first school year in America. The talented and endlessly resourceful Denver South High School teacher Mr. Eddie Williams welcomes these students, who speak fourteen different languages but no English and are completely unfamiliar with American culture, to his specially created English Language Acquisition class. He guides...
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xviii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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From the founder of Harvard's Change Leadership Group comes a provocative look at why innovation is today's most essential real-world skill and what young people need to become innovators. Reveals the importance of innovation in American global competitiveness, profiling some of today's most compelling young innovators while explaining how they have succeeded through the unconventional methods of parents, teachers, and mentors.
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English
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"A year in the life of a Chicago high school that has one of the highest proportions of refugees of any school in the nation"--
For a century, Chicago's Roger C. Sullivan High School has been a home to immigrant and refugee students. In 2017, during the worst global refugee crisis in history, its immigrant population numbered close to three hundred -- or nearly half the school -- and many were refugees new to the country. These young people came...
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156 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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A learning specialist who works with children with Asperger's syndrome and learning issues in becoming more effective at school, helps teens with Asperger's use their strengths and personal style to feel more comfortable in high school. Explains how teens can find their comfort zone and create a personal profile of their strengths and obstacles, then how to work with teachers and complete work, get along with other kids, deal with bullying, use social...
5) The bad kids
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Located in an impoverished Mojave Desert community, Black Rock Continuation High School is one of California's alternative schools for students at risk of dropping out. Every student here has fallen so far behind in credits that they have no hope of earning a diploma at a traditional high school. Black Rock is their last chance. The Bad Kids is an observational documentary that chronicles one extraordinary principal's mission to realize the potential...
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