The cartoon 'It's Sue actually' appears with permission of artist Simon Kneebone, and the figure on page 83 is used with the permission of author Carol Bower of the Birth Defects Registry ...
For a recent account of one group of such children living in a New York housing project, see T. Williams and W. Kornblum (1994), The Uptown Kids: Struggle and Hope in the Projects (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons). Chapter 1.
Provides an analysis of the challenges facing higher education and an honest appraisal of the successes and failures in meeting them.
These ideas include: Understanding the curriculum as a source of social mobility Planning for high quality destinations from first contact with prospective students Exploring challenge strategies to achieve academic excellence across ...
Greater Expectations is the book that exposed the low standards that children are confronted with in our homes, our schools, and throughout our culture.
Damon argues that as a culture we have come to accept some very dangerous beliefs about child development--beliefs that have given us a generation of poorly educated, apathetic, and amoral...
... nursery and read with the pre - school children . How could we choose a small group of children to deliver a copy of ... tales by Hilaire Belloc , and Michael Rosen's Hairy Tales and Nursery Crimes to our traditional favourites , but we had ...