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Author: Lauren McNiven
Publishing plan research and development:
Reagan Miller
Notes to educators: Shannon Welbourn
Substantive editor: Crystal Sikkens
Editor: Reagan Miller
Proofreader and indexer: Janine Deschenes
Design: Samara Parent
Photo research: Crystal Sikkens
Production coordinator and prepress
technician: Samara Parent
Print coordinator: Margaret Amy Salter
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
McNiven, Lauren, author
Schools in different places / Lauren McNiven.
(Learning about our global community)
Includes index.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-0-7787-2013-3 (bound).--ISBN 978-0-7787-2019-5 (paperback).--
ISBN 978-1-4271-1654-3 (pdf).--ISBN 978-1-4271-1648-2 (html)
1. Schools--Juvenile literature. 2. Education--Juvenile literature.
I. Title.
LB1513.M36 2015 j371 C2015-903953-3
C2015-903954-1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: McNiven, Lauren.
Title: Schools in different places / Lauren McNiven.
Description: New York : Crabtree Publishing Company, [2016] | Series:
Learning about our global community | Includes index.
Identiers: LCCN 2015029466| ISBN 9780778720133 (reinforced library binding
: alk. paper) | ISBN 9780778720195 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN
9781427116543 (electronic pdf : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781427116482
(electronic html : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Schools--Cross-cultural studies--Juvenile literature. |
Education--Cross-cultural studies--Juvenile literature.
Classication: LCC LB1556 .M46 2015 | DDC 371--dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015029466
Photographs:
Alamy: Maurice Savage: pp4 (top), 10;
National Geographic Image Collection: pp4 (bottom), 11 (top); Bill Bachman: p13;
anthony asael: p16
AP Photo: Paul Sancya: p15; Joel Page: p19
Creative Commons: Brooklyn Free School: p21
Getty: Jonas Gratzer: pp5 (top right), 11 (bottom);
Shutterstock: LUCARELLI TEMISTOCLE: title page; velirina: table of contents; Don Mammoser:
pp5 (top left), 8; Free Wind 2014: pp5 (bottom left), 12; paul prescott: pp5 (middle right), 20;
SOMRERK KOSOLWITTHAYANANT: p7; Attila JANDI: p17; Hung Chung Chih: p18;
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Wikimedia Commons: public domain: front cover
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Front cover: Schoolgirls sit in the girls section of a school in Afghanistan. There is no building, only
classes held outdoors in the shade of an orchard.
Title page: Children are shown attending school in South Africa.
Contents page : A schoolgirl is shown in class in Turkmenistan.
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Our Global Community ............ 4
A Place to Learn ....................... 6
Getting to School ...................... 8
School Buildings .................... 10
Inside the Classroom ............. 12
Subjects ................................... 14
Rules and Responsibilities .... 16
Schedules ................................ 18
A New School .......................... 20
Notes to Educators ................. 22
Learning More ......................... 23
Glossary and Index ................ 24
Contents