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English
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When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuits, and Russians with the stubborn generosity of a born teacher and the clarity of an original and independent mind. Jane Jacobs, Hannah's great-niece, here offers an historical context to Breece's remarkable eyewitness account, filling...
Author
Publisher
Alyson Publications
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
America's schools are filled with gay and lesbian students, teachers, coaches, counselors and principals. By telling the true stories of dozens of gay and lesbian educators and students, and their straight allies, School's Out opens an important window on the people, places, and programs that make the 1990s such a crucial decade.
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The author tells the story as told to him of Anne Hobbs, a woman who went to Alaska in the 1920s to teach, but who had trouble due to her kindness to the Indians there. Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this and much more in a town with the unlikely name of Chicken, located deep in the Alaskan interior. It is 1927 and Chicken is a wild mining community flaming with gold fever. Anne quickly...
Series
Fast facts volume 2012, July
Publisher
Colorado Department of Education, Exceptional Student Services Unit
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
11) This is a school
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A librarian and former ambassador of school libraries shares a touching celebration of schools and the people who make up the communities within them.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, close friends from childhood and graduates of Smith College, left home in Auburn, New York, for the wilds of northwestern Colorado. Bored by their society luncheons, charity work, and the effete young men who courted them, they learned that two teaching jobs were available in a remote mountaintop schoolhouse and applied - shocking their families and friends. "No young lady in our town,"...
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Publisher
Colorado Commission on Higher Education
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Recruitment and retention of underrepresented students requires leadership by institution presidents, vice presidents, and deans. Efforts must be proactive and sustained over a long period to build critical masses of students and faculty from underrepresented groups.
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Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"AAC&U launched its Making Excellence Inclusive (MEI) initiative in 2002 as a framework with four primary objectives: a focus on student intellectual and social development, a purposeful development and utilization of organizational resources to enhance student learning, a call for attention to the cultural difference learners bring to educational experiences, and a welcoming community that engages all of its diversity in the service of student and...