Waiting for a Miracle

Author: James P. Comer
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 0452276462

Waiting for a Miracle: Why Schools Can't Solve Our Problems-- and How We Can

It is the thesis of this provocative book that the deteriorating state of America's public school system is actually a reflection of the problems in our culture and society. Download Waiting for a Miracle: Why Schools Can't Solve Our Problems-- and How We Can from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. In "Waiting For A Miracle," James P. Comer M.D., Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale University Child Study Center and the author of Maggie's American Dream, and co-author of Raising Black Children, outlines the cause of these afflictions and presents an inspiring paradigm for a new way of thinking and acting with regard to children and family.At the root of the problem, he states, is a social failure to make a commitment to families, and to community and child development.Using many examples from his personal experience of growing up poor, and from more Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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