Learning hard way (322 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good. An avalanche of recent newspapers, weekly newsmagazines, scholarly journals, and academic books has helped to spark a heated debate by publishing warnings of a ?boy crisis? in which male students at all academic levels have begun falling behind their female peers. In Learning the Hard Way, Edward W. Morris explores and analyzes detailed ethnographic data on this purported gender gap between boys and girls in educational achievement at two low-income high schools-one rural and predominantly white, the other urban and mostly African American. Crucial questions arose from his study of gender at these two schools. Why did boys tend to show less interest in and more defiance toward school? Why did girls significantly outperform boys at both schools? Why did people at the schools still describe boys as especially ?smart??Morris examines these questions and, in the process, illuminates connections of gender to race, class, and place. This book is not simply about the educational troubles of boys, but the troubled and complex experience of gender in school. It reveals how particular race, class, and geographical experiences shape masculinity and femininity in ways that affect academic performance. His findings add a new perspective to the ?gender gap? in achievement.…

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. In Bittersweet, her follow-up to Cold Tangerines, Shauna Niequist shifts her gaze to the challenges and blessings of change. Drawing from her experiences in a recent season of pain and chaos, she explores the wisdom and growth we earn through change, loss, and transition and offers her own reflections on what brought her hope along the way.…

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. In Bittersweet, her follow-up to Cold Tangerines, Shauna Niequist shifts her gaze to the challenges and blessings of change. Drawing from her experiences in a recent season of pain and chaos, she explores the wisdom and growth we earn through change, loss, and transition and offers her own reflections on what brought her hope along the way.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. In Bittersweet, her follow-up to Cold Tangerines, Shauna Niequist shifts her gaze to the challenges and blessings of change. Drawing from her experiences in a recent season of pain and chaos, she explores the wisdom and growth we earn through change, loss, and transition and offers her own reflections on what brought her hope along the way.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. In her follow-up book to Cold Tangerines, author Shauna Niequist shifts her gaze to the challenges and blessings of change in Bittersweet. Drawing from her own experiences in a recent season of pain and chaos, she explores the bits of wisdom and growth we earn the hard way, through change, loss, and transition, and offers her own reflections on what brought her hope along the way.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: As New.

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Paperback. Condizione: Fair. 1/24/13. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. An avalanche of recent newspapers, weekly newsmagazines, scholarly journals, and academic books has helped to spark a heated debate by publishing warnings of a ?boy crisis? in which male students at all academic levels have begun falling behind their female peers. In Learning the Hard Way, Edward W. Morris explores and analyzes detailed ethnographic data on this purported gender gap between boys and girls in educational achievement at two low-income high schools-one rural and predominantly white, the other urban and mostly African American. Crucial questions arose from his study of gender at these two schools. Why did boys tend to show less interest in and more defiance toward school? Why did girls significantly outperform boys at both schools? Why did people at the schools still describe boys as especially ?smart??Morris examines these questions and, in the process, illuminates connections of gender to race, class, and place. This book is not simply about the educational troubles of boys, but the troubled and complex experience of gender in school. It reveals how particular race, class, and geographical experiences shape masculinity and femininity in ways that affect academic performance. His findings add a new perspective to the ?gender gap? in achievement.…

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. In Bittersweet, her follow-up to Cold Tangerines, Shauna Niequist shifts her gaze to the challenges and blessings of change. Drawing from her experiences in a recent season of pain and chaos, she explores the wisdom and growth we earn through change, loss, and transition and offers her own reflections on what brought her hope along the way.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. In Bittersweet, her follow-up to Cold Tangerines, Shauna Niequist shifts her gaze to the challenges and blessings of change. Drawing from her experiences in a recent season of pain and chaos, she explores the wisdom and growth we earn through change, loss, and transition and offers her own reflections on what brought her hope along the way.…

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. In Bittersweet, her follow-up to Cold Tangerines, Shauna Niequist shifts her gaze to the challenges and blessings of change. Drawing from her experiences in a recent season of pain and chaos, she explores the wisdom and growth we earn through change, loss, and transition and offers her own reflections on what brought her hope along the way.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. In her follow-up book to Cold Tangerines, author Shauna Niequist shifts her gaze to the challenges and blessings of change in Bittersweet. Drawing from her own experiences in a recent season of pain and chaos, she explores the bits of wisdom and growth we earn the hard way, through change, loss, and transition, and offers her own reflections on what brought her hope along the way.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.