High Poverty Schools
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When Grit Isn't Enough
- A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College- for-All Promise
- By: Linda F. Nathan
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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In When Grit Isn't Enough, Nathan investigates five assumptions that inform our ideas about education today, revealing how these beliefs mask systemic inequity. Seeing a rift between these false promises and the lived experiences of her students, she argues that it is time for educators to face these uncomfortable issues head-on and explores how educators can better serve all students, increase college retention rates, and develop alternatives to college that don't disadvantage students on the basis of race or income.
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Educative
- By Arin-Olori on 07-20-18
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When Grit Isn't Enough
- A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College- for-All Promise
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-17-17
- Language: English
- In When Grit Isn't Enough, Nathan investigates five assumptions that inform our ideas about education today, revealing how these beliefs mask systemic inequity....
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Music in the Halls
- The Heart and Heartbreak of Teaching at a High-Poverty School in Washington, DC
- By: Bernard Jankowski
- Narrated by: Tom Pile
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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Music in the Halls reveals the inner workings of a high-poverty District of Columbia Public School. In it, Jankowski brings to light the visceral and emotional nature of childhood poverty and trauma and how it not only impacts a student’s ability to learn but also how it restricts their ability to live a full life.
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Candid, eye opening view into one DCPS school near the Southwest Waterfront
- By Mitchell M. Frost on 12-18-23
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Music in the Halls
- The Heart and Heartbreak of Teaching at a High-Poverty School in Washington, DC
- Narrated by: Tom Pile
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-28-23
- Language: English
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Music in the Halls reveals the inner workings of a high-poverty District of Columbia Public School, bringing to light the visceral and emotional nature of childhood poverty and trauma....
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Bandwidth Recovery for Schools
- Helping Pre-K-12 Students Regain Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Trauma, Racism, and Social Marginalization
- By: Cia Verschelden, Kofi Lomotey - foreword
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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Each of us has a finite amount of mental bandwidth, the cognitive resources that are available for learning, development, work, and everything else we have to do. These "attentional resources" are not about how smart we are, but about how much of our brain power is available to us for the task at hand.
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Bandwidth Recovery for Schools
- Helping Pre-K-12 Students Regain Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Trauma, Racism, and Social Marginalization
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 04-23-24
- Language: English
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Each of us has a finite amount of mental bandwidth, the cognitive resources that are available for learning, development, work, and everything else we have to do. These "attentional resources" are not about how smart we are, but about how much of our brain power is available to us....
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Saint Iggy
- By: K.L. Going
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
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When Iggy Corso gets kicked out of high school, there's no one for him to tell. His mother has gone off, his father is stoned on the couch, and because the phone's been disconnected, even the social worker can't get through. So he leaves a note and goes out to make something of his life, but that's not so easy when you're 16, living in public housing, have no skills, and your only friend is a law-school dropout who's thinking about joining the Hare Krishnas.
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One amazing book!
- By Lilly-Marie Lamarl on 02-02-19
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Saint Iggy
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-25-06
- Language: English
- When Iggy Corso gets kicked out of high school, there's no one for him to tell....
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