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ENG 1A (Moellering) - The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: Books

A guide to help students researching a topic from Jeff Hobbs' The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League But Did Not Survive.

Books in the LPC Library

Sample keyword searches:

"public education"
inequality education "united states"
urban poor "united states"
urbanization "united states"
fatherless families
"nuclear family" "united states"
"institutional racism"
"mass incarceration"
"school choice"
"No Child Left Behind"

Sample Titles

Schools Betrayed by Kathryn M. Neckerman
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2008
Schools Betrayed
What It Means to Be Daddy by Jennifer Hamer; Jennifer F. Hamer
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2001
What it Means to Be Daddy
Reign of Error by Diane Ravitch
Call Number: LB2806.36 .R38 2013
Reign of Error
Is Poverty a Serious Threat? by Mercedes Muñoz
Call Number: HC110 .P6 I8 2006
Is Poverty a Serious Threat?

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Scan topics

The Nineties in America (Online) or Ref. E839 .N56 2009 (Print)

The Two Thousands in America (Online) or Ref. E169.12 .A178 2013 (Print)

Salem Press Subject Index- Gay rights, immigration, drug abuse, mental health, etc.