Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools Create a Pathway From High School to College to Career

Breaking Barriers shows how to redesign high schools so that all students can move on to college and successful careers. In a negation of the American Dream, a child's zip code is currently a far better predictor of success than hard work, intelligence, or resilience. This book tells the story of a school model that focuses on equity and works to prove that all young people can achieve academic excellence given the right support. P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) combines public high schools and community colleges in partnership with employers, providing both opportunity and support for all students. This innovative and effective approach eliminates barriers to replication by engaging all stakeholders. The first P-TECH, which opened in a low-income Brooklyn neighborhood, is now a model for school reform. Praised by President Obama and heads of nations, its story is told through the voices of students who have shattered the myths about which students can succeed. Book Features: <ul> <li>Describes a successful school reform model that is operating in 220 schools across 12 states and 14 countries.</li> <li>Demonstrates how engaging and involving all stakeholders in school reform creates partners instead of adversaries.</li> <li>Illustrates how success in a single school has become the linchpin behind a reform movement because the key barriers to replication were removed in its very design.</li> <li>Delves into thorny issues like the opportunity and achievement gaps, dismal college completion rates, college debt, income inequality, and the need for skilled, diverse STEM employees.</li> </ul>

Business & Money

Litow, Stanley S.

Kelley, Tina

Job Hunting & Careers

Teachers' College Press

Breaking Barriers shows how to redesign high schools so that all students can move on to college and successful careers. In a negation of the American Dream, a child's zip code is currently a far better predictor of success than hard work, intelligence, or resilience. This book tells the story of a school model that focuses on equity and works to prove that all young people can achieve academic excellence given the right support. P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) combines public high schools and community colleges in partnership with employers, providing both opportunity and support for all students. This innovative and effective approach eliminates barriers to replication by engaging all stakeholders. The first P-TECH, which opened in a low-income Brooklyn neighborhood, is now a model for school reform. Praised by President Obama and heads of nations, its story is told through the voices of students who have shattered the myths about which students can succeed. Book Features: <ul> <li>Describes a successful school reform model that is operating in 240 schools across 12 states and 28 countries.</li> <li>Demonstrates how engaging and involving all stakeholders in school reform creates partners instead of adversaries.</li> <li>Illustrates how success in a single school has become the linchpin behind a reform movement because the key barriers to replication were removed in its very design.</li> <li>Delves into thorny issues like the opportunity and achievement gaps, dismal college completion rates, college debt, income inequality, and the need for skilled, diverse STEM employees.</li> </ul>

THE GOSPEL OF GALORE, Tina Kelley's first collection, is at once exuberant and intellectual, its reverence for the world's physical beauty and joy underpinned by rigorous knowledge about the world's creatures and creations. Curiosities abound in her work, and entice the reader's deeper curiosity as well, from the visual to the intellectual to, ultimately, the spiritual plane.

The Gospel of Galore

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Word Poetry

Inside the lives of homeless teens--moving stories of pain and hope from Covenant HouseAlmost Home tells the stories of six remarkable young people from across the United States and Canada as they confront life alone on the streets. Each eventually finds his or her way to Covenant House, the largest charity serving homeless and runaway youth in North America. From the son of a crack addict who fights his own descent into drug addiction to a teen mother reaching for a new life, their stories veer between devastating and inspiring as they each struggle to find a place called home. <ul>
<li>Includes a foreword by Newark Mayor Cory Booker </li>
<li>Shares the personal stories of six homeless youths grappling with issues such as drug addiction, family violence, prostitution, rejection based on sexual orientation, teen parenthood, and aging out of foster care into a future with limited skills and no support system</li>
<li>Gives voice to the estimated 1.6 million young people in the United States and Canada who run away or are kicked out of their homes each year</li>
<li>Includes striking photographs, stories of firsthand experiences mentoring and working with homeless and troubled youth, and practical suggestions on how to get involved</li>
<li>Discusses the root causes of homelessness among young people, and policy recommendations to address them</li>
<li>Provides action steps readers can take to fight youth homelessness and assist individual homeless young people</li>
<li>Written by Kevin Ryan, president of Covenant House, and Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times writer Tina Kelley</li>
</ul>Inviting us to get to know homeless teens as more than an accumulation of statistics and societal issues, this book gives a human face to a huge but largely invisible problem and offers practical insights into how to prevent homelessness and help homeless youth move to a hopeful future. For instance, one kid in the book goes on to become a college football player and counselor to at-risk adolescents and another becomes a state kickboxing champion. All the stories inspire us with victories of the human spirit, large and small. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each book will help support kids who benefit from Covenant House's shelter and outreach services.

Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope

Ryan, Kevin

Teen & Young Adult

Trade Paper Press

With the eye of a journalist and the heart of a caretaker, Kelley shares her love of words, fireworks, kites, sea-salt caramels, metaphor, and humans. Armed with a generative impulse, her poems pay close attention to the dark, moving through it with wit and affirmation.

Abloom & Awry (Florenz Eisman Memorial, 1)

CavanKerry Press

In Rise Wildly, poet and journalist Tina Kelley writes with precision, heart, and humor. Touching on matters such as marriage, child-rearing, and caregiving for her mother and her earth, Kelley's poems betray an unabashed affection for big words and small children. As a journalist, she has heard and told hundreds of stories, and like all reporters, values facts and the psychological heft behind them. Her mind catches on shiny facts and phrases that she gathers in combinations that can surprise, delight, and inform. Both reverent and irreverent, but always aiming for accuracy and empathy, Kelley explores the darkest corners, then lifts her eyes high. The poems in Rise Wildly touch on stories from the front row seat of Kelley's life, especially in her role as caregiver. Written with reverence for the vicissitudes of being a mother, wife, and daughter, Rise Wildly touches on it all: birth, childhood, middle age, old age, death, and their epic combinations. Musings on fact, fiction, music, nature, and family are relayed with humor, grief, joy, and adoration.

Rise Wildly

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Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools Create a Pathway From High School to College to Career

Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools Create a Pathway From High School to College to Career

The Gospel of Galore

Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope

Abloom & Awry (Florenz Eisman Memorial, 1)

Rise Wildly