1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464268003321

Autore

McCloskey Patrick

Titolo

The street stops here [[electronic resource] ] : a year at a Catholic high school in Harlem / / Patrick J. McCloskey ; foreword by Samuel G. Freedman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-77237-6

9786612772375

0-520-94208-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (490 p.)

Collana

George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies

Disciplina

371.071/27471

Soggetti

Catholic high schools - New York (State) - New York

African Americans - Education (Secondary) - New York (State) - New York

Minorities - Education (Secondary) - New York (State) - New York

Electronic books.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-439) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- Chapter Twenty -- Chapter Twenty-one -- Chapter Twenty-two -- Chapter Twenty-three -- Chapter Twenty-four -- Chapter Twenty-five -- Chapter Twenty-six -- Chapter Twenty-seven -- Chapter Twenty-eight -- Chapter Twenty-nine -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Street Stops Here offers a deeply personal and compelling account of a Catholic high school in central Harlem, where mostly disadvantaged (and often non-Catholic) African American males graduate on time and get into college. Interweaving vivid portraits of



day-to-day school life with clear and evenhanded analysis, Patrick J. McCloskey takes us through an eventful year at Rice High School, as staff, students, and families make heroic efforts to prevail against society's expectations. McCloskey's riveting narrative brings into sharp relief an urgent public policy question: whether (and how) to save these schools that provide the only viable option for thousands of poor and working-class students-and thus fulfill a crucial public mandate. Just as significantly, The Street Stops Here offers invaluable lessons for low-performing urban public schools.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484400603321

Titolo

Principles of Distributed Systems : 18th International Conference, OPODIS 2014, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, December 16-19, 2014. Proceedings / / edited by Marcos K. Aguilera, Leonardo Querzoni, Marc Shapiro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-14472-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 502 p. 95 illus.)

Collana

Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 8878

Disciplina

004.36

Soggetti

Computer networks

Algorithms

Computer science - Mathematics

Discrete mathematics

Software engineering

Artificial intelligence

Computer science

Computer Communication Networks

Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science

Software Engineering

Artificial Intelligence

Theory of Computation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Consistency -- Distributed graph algorithms -- Fault tolerance -- Models -- Radio networks -- Robots -- Self-stabilization -- Shared data structures -- Shared memory -- Synchronization and universal construction.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, OPODIS 2014, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, in December 2014. The 32 papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on consistency; distributed graph algorithms; fault tolerance; models; radio networks; robots; self-stabilization; shared data structures; shared memory; synchronization and universal construction.