Book Description
Athena Parker has been slimed! And she doesn't think it's funny. Someone in Ms. Gleason's class is playing practical jokes. And it's up to Jigsaw and Mila to catch the clown. This could be their stickiest case yet.
Author : James Preller
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2001-03
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9780756926403
Athena Parker has been slimed! And she doesn't think it's funny. Someone in Ms. Gleason's class is playing practical jokes. And it's up to Jigsaw and Mila to catch the clown. This could be their stickiest case yet.
Author : James Preller
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439184748
When Athena Lorenzo becomes the target of a class clown, she hires Jigsaw and Mila to figure out who is behind the practical jokes.
Author : James Preller
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2005-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9788953905870
Author : Jonathan A. Knee
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231543336
The past thirty years have seen dozens of otherwise successful investors try to improve education through the application of market principles. They have funneled billions of dollars into alternative schools, online education, and textbook publishing, and they have, with surprising regularity, lost their shirts. In Class Clowns, professor and investment banker Jonathan A. Knee dissects what drives investors' efforts to improve education and why they consistently fail. Knee takes readers inside four spectacular financial failures in education: Rupert Murdoch's billion-dollar effort to reshape elementary education through technology; the unhappy investors—including hedge fund titan John Paulson—who lost billions in textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin; the abandonment of Knowledge Universe, Michael Milken's twenty-year mission to revolutionize the global education industry; and a look at Chris Whittle, founder of EdisonLearning and a pioneer of large-scale transformational educational ventures, who continues to attract investment despite decades of financial and operational disappointment. Although deep belief in the curative powers of the market drove these initiatives, it was the investors' failure to appreciate market structure that doomed them. Knee asks: What makes a good education business? By contrasting rare successes, he finds a dozen broad lessons at the heart of these cautionary case studies. Class Clowns offers an important guide for public policy makers and guardrails for future investors, as well as an intelligent exposé for activists and teachers frustrated with the repeated underperformance of these attempts to shake up education.
Author : Robert N. Munsch
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0439935946
Leonardo can't stop being the class clown despite his teacher's protestations.
Author : Christopher Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 2004-04-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0198037333
"Character" has become a front-and-center topic in contemporary discourse, but this term does not have a fixed meaning. Character may be simply defined by what someone does not do, but a more active and thorough definition is necessary, one that addresses certain vital questions. Is character a singular characteristic of an individual, or is it composed of different aspects? Does character--however we define it--exist in degrees, or is it simply something one happens to have? How can character be developed? Can it be learned? Relatedly, can it be taught, and who might be the most effective teacher? What roles are played by family, schools, the media, religion, and the larger culture? This groundbreaking handbook of character strengths and virtues is the first progress report from a prestigious group of researchers who have undertaken the systematic classification and measurement of widely valued positive traits. They approach good character in terms of separate strengths-authenticity, persistence, kindness, gratitude, hope, humor, and so on-each of which exists in degrees. Character Strengths and Virtues classifies twenty-four specific strengths under six broad virtues that consistently emerge across history and culture: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. Each strength is thoroughly examined in its own chapter, with special attention to its meaning, explanation, measurement, causes, correlates, consequences, and development across the life span, as well as to strategies for its deliberate cultivation. This book demands the attention of anyone interested in psychology and what it can teach about the good life.
Author : Nancy Krulik
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 110151325X
George Brown's super burps are causing serious trouble for poor George again. And this time the trouble really stinks! The super burp strikes on Field Day during an outdoor class scavenger hunt. George vows to keep out of any mischief, but he winds up getting skunked.
Author : Daniel Alarcón
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0399184805
A gorgeously rendered graphic novel of Daniel Alarcón’s story City of Clowns. From the author of The King Is Always Above the People, which was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction. Oscar “Chino” Uribe is a young Peruvian journalist for a local tabloid paper. After the recent death of his philandering father, he must confront the idea of his father’s other family, and how much of his own identity has been shaped by his father’s murky morals. At the same time, he begins to chronicle the life of street clowns, sad characters who populate the violent and corrupt city streets of Lima, and is drawn into their haunting, fantastical world. This remarkably affecting story by Daniel Alarcón was included in his acclaimed first book, War by Candlelight, and now, in collaboration with artist Sheila Alvarado, it takes on a new, thrilling form. This graphic novel, with its short punches of action and images, its stark contrasts between light and dark, truth and fiction, perfectly corresponds to the tone of Chino’s story. With the city of Lima as a character, and the bold visual language from the story, City of Clowns is moving, menacing, and brilliantly vivid.
Author : Johanna Hurwitz
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 25,61 MB
Release : 1987-05-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0688067239
"Once again Hurwitz exhibits her talent for creating characters who talk, act, and think just like real kids. Realistic dialogue . . . and commonplace situations that sparkle with humor combine to make this a fine choice".--School Library Journal. Illustrated. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Scott D. Moore
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Classroom management
ISBN :