Addicted To Reform
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Addicted To Reform
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Author : John Merrow
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2017-08-15
Addicted To Reform written by John Merrow and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-15 with Education categories.
The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America's misguided approaches to K-12 school reform During an illustrious four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow—winner of the George Polk Award, the Peabody Award, and the McGraw Prize—reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on everything from the rise of district-wide cheating scandals and the corporate greed driving an ADD epidemic to teacher-training controversies and America's obsession with standardized testing. Along the way, he taught in a high school, at a historically black college, and at a federal penitentiary. Now, the revered education correspondent of PBS NewsHour distills his best thinking on education into a twelve-step approach to fixing a K–12 system that Merrow describes as being "addicted to reform" but unwilling to address the real issue: American public schools are ill-equipped to prepare young people for the challenges of the twenty-first century. This insightful book looks at how to turn digital natives into digital citizens and why it should be harder to become a teacher but easier to be one. Merrow offers smart, essential chapters—including "Measure What Matters," and "Embrace Teachers"—that reflect his countless hours spent covering classrooms as well as corridors of power. His signature candid style of reportage comes to life as he shares lively anecdotes, schoolyard tales, and memories that are at once instructive and endearing. Addicted to Reform is written with the kind of passionate concern that could come only from a lifetime devoted to the people and places that constitute the foundation of our nation. It is a "big book" that forms an astute and urgent blueprint for providing a quality education to every American child.
The Influence Of Teachers
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Author : John Merrow
language : en
Publisher: LM Books
Release Date : 2011
The Influence Of Teachers written by John Merrow and has been published by LM Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Education categories.
How can schools and teachers change to keep up with the current educational landscape, a world in which young people must learn how to ask the right questions, not merely parrot back the 'right' answers? In this urgent and insightful book, John Merrow draws on his experience as a reporter for PBS and NPR to examine this question and others, and offer possibilities and solutions for a new education system. Told through warm storytelling and compelling case studies, Merrow paints a vibrant and inspiring picture of why and how we must transform - not reform - our schools.
Addicted To Christ
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Author : Helena Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2018-04-24
Addicted To Christ written by Helena Hansen and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-24 with Religion categories.
"How are spiritual power and self-transformation cultivated in street ministries? In Addicted to Christ, Helena Hansen provides an in-depth analysis of Pentecostal ministries in Puerto Rico that were founded and managed by self-identified 'ex-addicts.' Richly ethnographic, the book melds Hansen's dual expertise in public anthropology and psychology. Through her interviewees' stories, she examines key elements of the Pentecostal system: mysticism, ascetic practice, and the idea other-worldliness. She then shares the strategies of Pentecostal ministries, which, according to street ministries, are the core elements of spiritual victory over addiction: transformation techniques to build spiritual strength and authority through pain and discipline; cultivation of alternative masculinities based on male converts' reclamation of domestic space; and radical rupture from a post-industrial 'culture of disposability.' By contrasting the ministries' logic of addiction with that of biomedicine, Hansen rethinks roads to recovery while discovering unexpected convergences with biomedicine, revealing the true sway of street corner ministries"--Provided by publisher.
The Improvement And Reform Of Law Enforcement And Criminal Justice In The United States
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Crime
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Improvement And Reform Of Law Enforcement And Criminal Justice In The United States written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Crime and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Crime categories.
Addicted To Rehab
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Author : Allison McKim
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2017-07-03
Addicted To Rehab written by Allison McKim and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-03 with Social Science categories.
After decades of the American “war on drugs” and relentless prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an apparently promising solution to reduce the prison population: addiction treatment. In Addicted to Rehab, Bard College sociologist Allison McKim gives an in-depth and innovative ethnographic account of two such rehab programs for women, one located in the criminal justice system and one located in the private healthcare system—two very different ways of defining and treating addiction. McKim’s book shows how addiction rehab reflects the race, class, and gender politics of the punitive turn. As a result, addiction has become a racialized category that has reorganized the link between punishment and welfare provision. While reformers hope that treatment will offer an alternative to punishment and help women, McKim argues that the framework of addiction further stigmatizes criminalized women and undermines our capacity to challenge gendered subordination. Her study ultimately reveals a two-tiered system, bifurcated by race and class.
Addicted
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Author : Matt Noffs
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2018-06-01
Addicted written by Matt Noffs and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-01 with Self-Help categories.
This book is about addictions of all kinds. Addictions to smartphones, sex, games, social media, gambling, money, but most of all to alcohol and drugs. The words 'addict' and 'addiction' are loaded with baggage. Not just in Australia, but the world over, addicts are considered to be sub-human, if not alien. This book aims to reclaim their dignity. It aims to rescue the word 'addiction' from its kidnappers and restore its humanity. It offers personal accounts from inspirational people who have found themselves in the grips of such addictions, and their amazing stories of survival. At the Ted Noffs Foundation, Matt Noffs and Kieran Palmer spend their lives working with young people who have serious and often debilitating drug addictions. This book shares the tools they use every day. It offers insights into why addiction takes place and why it's a natural part of being human. It journeys across the spectrum of addictive behaviors, from social media to drugs like heroin. It questions the assumptions and begins to debunk the myth that all addiction is identical and predictable. Addiction is something that could affect any of us. This is a book that everyone should read.
Health Reform In The 21st Century
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Health Reform In The 21st Century written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Medical categories.
Choosing Excellence
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Author : John Merrow
language : en
Publisher: R & L Education
Release Date : 2001
Choosing Excellence written by John Merrow and has been published by R & L Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Education categories.
In this intelligent and humorous account, Merrow seeks to answer the question: How do you know if your school is any good?
Dealing With An Addict
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Author : Peter Ferentzy, PhD
language : en
Publisher: LULU
Release Date : 2013-10
Dealing With An Addict written by Peter Ferentzy, PhD and has been published by LULU this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with Self-Help categories.
If you are living with the pain of seeing a loved one battle an addiction, your life is already filled with too many questions and not enough answers. You are not alone. Dr. Peter Ferentzy has walked the lonely path of addiction himself, but it was the tragic death of two close friends that inspired him to do his part to save others. His guide, Dealing with an Addict, walks you through the confusing-and often corrupt-world of addiction, treatment, and recovery. Far too often, those seeking help for their loved ones find themselves treated with disrespect by industry professionals who are more interested in fees than lasting results. A helpful companion for anyone wanting to help an addicted friend, partner, or offspring, Dealing with an Addict gives you the tools to make effective decisions about when to help, how to help, and above all, how to protect yourself and your loved one from an industry that is often more predatory than helpful.
Creating The American Junkie
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Author : Caroline Jean Acker
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2002-04-26
Creating The American Junkie written by Caroline Jean Acker and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-26 with Family & Relationships categories.
Heroin was only one drug among many that worried Progressive Era anti-vice reformers, but by the mid-twentieth century, heroin addiction came to symbolize irredeemable deviance. Creating the American Junkie examines how psychiatrists and psychologists produced a construction of opiate addicts as deviants with inherently flawed personalities caught in the grip of a dependency from which few would ever escape. Their portrayal of the tough urban addict helped bolster the federal government's policy of drug prohibition and created a social context that made the life of the American heroin addict, or junkie, more, not less, precarious in the wake of Progressive Era reforms. Weaving together the accounts of addicts and researchers, Acker examines how the construction of addiction in the early twentieth century was strongly influenced by the professional concerns of psychiatrists seeking to increase their medical authority; by the disciplinary ambitions of pharmacologists to build a drug development infrastructure; and by the American Medical Association's campaign to reduce prescriptions of opiates and to absolve physicians in private practice from the necessity of treating difficult addicts as patients. In contrast, early sociological studies of heroin addicts formed a basis for criticizing the criminalization of addiction. By 1940, Acker concludes, a particular configuration of ideas about opiate addiction was firmly in place and remained essentially stable until the enormous demographic changes in drug use of the 1960s and 1970s prompted changes in the understanding of addiction—and in public policy.