Teaching in America [[electronic resource] ] : the slow revolution / / Gerald Grant and Christine E. Murray

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455066503321
• Autore: Grant Gerald
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0-674-03789-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MurrayChristine E
• Disciplina: 371.100973
• Soggetti: Teachers - United States; Teaching - United States; Professions - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-268) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Two Professions? -- 2. Assessing America’s Teachers and Schools -- 3. The Essential Acts of Teaching -- 4. Three Questions Every Teacher Must Answer -- 5 The Modern Origins of the Profession: Florence’s Story, 1890–1920 -- 6. Reforming Teaching in the Midst of Social Crisis: Andrena’s Story, 1960–1990 -- 7. Teachers’ Struggle to Take Charge of Their Practice: The Rochester Story, 1987–1997 -- 8. The Progress of the Slow Revolution throughout the Nation -- 9. Teaching in 2020 -- Research Methods -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The authors describe the evolution of teaching in America over the last 100 years. They compare college professors with school teachers and analyse the essential acts of teaching in a way that should help teachers become bettter practitioners

The Sad and dismal year. Or, England's great and lamentable flood; [[electronic resource] ] : being a true, but woful relation, of the mighty rains, and overflowings of the stately rivers of Trent, Dove, and Severn, in several parts of the nation, and the number of men, women, and children, that perished by the force of this inundation. Likewise, the hideous noise and shrieks of poor scking babes and infants, that lay floting up and down the waters in their cradles, and the getting up of divers people to the tops of houses to save their lives. Together with the carying away of great store of hay, pease, and beans, by the merciless streams; and the great loss and ruine of many cowes, horses, sheep, and oxen

• Record Nr.: UNISA996392293603316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Imprinted at London, : for Arthur Reynolds, 1655
• Descrizione fisica: 8 p
• Soggetti: Floods - England
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Annotation on Thomason copy: "Sept: 9th".; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0018