This comprehensive guide from internet expert Robert Pondiscio covers everything kids need to know about:
How to get online Web basics, with a guided tour of the Web Communicating online through e-mail, chat and news groups America Online and other internet service providers Staying safe online Free stuff, fun and games, and multimedia Sites for kids and families How to get parents hooked on the internet And much more

Get on the Net:: Everything You Need To Know About The Internet, Including The World Wide Web And Addresses For Hundreds Of Fun And Useful Sites (An Avon Camelot Book)

Children's Books

Pondiscio, Robert

Computers & Technology

Harpercollins

An informative guide for young people includes the predictions and facts by field experts to cover such questions as whether or not space travel will be possible and whether or not cancer will be cured. Original.

The Future: An Owner's Manual : What the World Will Look Like in the 21st Century and Beyond

Science, Nature & How It Works

HARPER/TROPHY

How The Other Half Learns: Equality, excellence, and the battle over school choice

An inside look at America's most controversial charter schools, and the moral and political questions around public education and school choice. The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America. In How the Other Half Learns, teacher and education journalist Robert Pondiscio focuses on Success Academy, the network of controversial charter schools in New York City founded by Eva Moskowitz, who has created something unprecedented in American education: a way for large numbers of engaged and ambitious low-income families of color to get an education for their children that equals and even exceeds what wealthy families take for granted. Her results are astonishing, her methods unorthodox. Decades of well-intended efforts to improve our schools and close the "achievement gap" have set equity and excellence at war with each other: If you are wealthy, with the means to pay private school tuition or move to an affluent community, you can get your child into an excellent school. But if you are poor and black or brown, you have to settle for "equity" and a lecture--about fairness. About the need to be patient. And about how school choice for you only damages public schools for everyone else. Thousands of parents have chosen Success Academy, and thousands more sit on waiting lists to get in. But Moskowitz herself admits Success Academy "is not for everyone," and this raises uncomfortable questions we'd rather not ask, let alone answer: What if the price of giving a first-rate education to children least likely to receive it means acknowledging that you can't do it for everyone? What if some problems are just too hard for schools alone to solve?

How The Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Avery

The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America. In How the Other Half Learns, teacher and education journalist Robert Pondiscio focuses on Success Academy, the network of controversial charter schools in New York City founded by Eva Moskowitz, who has created something unprecedented in American education: a way for large numbers of engaged and ambitious low-income families of colour to get an education for their children that equals and even exceeds what wealthy families take for granted. Her results are astonishing, her methods unorthodox.Decades of well-intended efforts to improve our schools and close the 'achievement gap' have set equity and excellence at war with each other: If you are wealthy, with the means to pay private school tuition or move to an affluent community, you can get your child into an excellent school. But if you are poor and black or brown, you have to settle for 'equity a

Business & Money

Economics

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