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  "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?"

  A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

  by Beverly Daniel Tatum

  Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered in their own groups, too. The same phenomenon can be observed in college dining halls, faculty lounges, and corporate cafeterias. What is going on here? Is this... (more)
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  Down a Dark Hall

  by Lois Duncan

  Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, fourteen-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected.
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  Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology

  The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America

  by Allan Collins, Richard Halverson

  The digital revolution has hit education, with more and more classrooms plugged into the whole wired world. But are schools making the most of new technologies? Are they tapping into the learning potential of today s Firefox/Facebook/cell phone generation? Have schools fallen through the crack of the digital divide? In Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology, Allan Collins and Richard Halverson argue that... (more)
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  Princess Academy

  by Shannon Hale

  Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of the village. The king's ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and every teenage girl must attend and learn... (more)
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  Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling

  by John Holt, Pat Farenga

  The classic work on teaching children at home, updated for today's new laws, new lifestyles, and a new generation of homeschooling parents. Today more than one and a half million children are being taught at home by their own parents. In this expanded edition of the book that helped launch the whole movement, Pat Farenga has distilled John Holt's timeless understanding of the ways children come to understand the... (more)
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  Sylvia & Aki

  by Winifred Conkling

  Sylvia never expected to be at the center of a landmark legal battle; all she wanted was to enroll in school.   Aki never expected to be relocated to a Japanese internment camp in the Arizona desert; all she wanted was to stay on her family farm and finish the school year.   The two girls certainly never expected to know each other, until their lives intersected in Southern California during a time when their... (more)
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  Ronald Reagan and Education Policy

  by Kevin R. Kosar

  Ronald Reagan entered the presidency promising to return K-12 education policy back to states and localities. Ironically, Reagan ended up both expanding and legitimizing the federal role in schooling. How did this happen? Kevin R. Kosar, author of the book Failing Grades and the creator of the Federal Education Policy History website, answers this riddle and provides a concise introduction to Reagan’s education... (more)
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  Parents' Involvement in Education: The Experience of an African Immigrant Community in Chicago

  by Obiefuna J. Onwughalu

  The Igbo community in Chicago is a newer immigrant community, compared to the German, Polish, Italian, or Irish communities. Just as for these older immigrant communities, education is essential for Igbo immigrants who have come to start a new life in the United States. Adapting well and thriving in the new environment requires immigrants to tread the path of education. The number of Igbo children and other such... (more)
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  Hornbooks and Inkwells

  by Verla Kay

  Life in an eighteenth-century one-room schoolhouse might be different from today-but like any other pair of siblings, brothers Peter and John Paul get up to plenty of mischief! Readers follow the two as they work with birch-bark paper and hornbooks, play tricks on each other, get in trouble, and celebrate when John Paul learns to read and write. Verla Kay's trademark short and evocative verse and S. D.... (more)
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  Easy Homeschooling Library

  How to Get Your Kids to Get Things DONE! (Easy Homeschooling)

  Homeschool Parents: Are your kids managing their time as well as they should be? Are they having trouble getting all their schoolwork and household chores done? Have you got some whining, dawdling and complaining going on? Hmmm... Who doesn't? Here is the collected advice from over 400 homeschooling moms for helping YOUR KIDS learn to manage their time... dozens of motivational thoughts and practical ideas and... (more)
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  A Girl of the Limberlost

  by Gene Stratton-Porter

  Elnora Comstock grows up on the banks of Limberlost Swamp in Indiana with her bitter mother, Katharine. Unable to afford an education, Elnora develops a plan to sell artifacts and moths from the swamp. “A Girl of the Limberlost” has been considered a classic since its publication in 1909, inspiring several film adaptations.
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  Survival within Two Cultures

  by Erminia “Minnie” Lopez Rincon

  When Erminia "Minnie" Lopez Rincon was born, she was not breathing, but the attendant working on her tiny body did not give up until Rincon was breathing on her own. So began the life of a Mexican American woman who would not only endure many unforeseen challenges and emotional struggles, but would also eventually rise above it all to find her passion and true calling in life. In her compelling memoir, Rincon... (more)
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  Spoken Soul

  The Story of Black English

  by John R. Rickford

  In Praise of spoken soul the story of black english "Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture."–Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown university "A lively, well-documented history of Black English . . . that will enlighten and inform not only educators, for whom it should be... (more)
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  The Last Apprentice: Book 2

  Curse of the Bane

  by Joseph Delaney

  The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, rid the county of witches, ghosts, boggarts, and other creatures of the dark. And there's some unfinished business to attend to in Priestown. Deep in the catacombs lurks a creature the Spook has never been able to defeat; a force so evil that the whole county is in danger. The Bane!But the Bane is not their only enemy. The Quisitor arrives, intent on hunting... (more)
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  Kill Them Before They Grow: The Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in America's Classrooms

  by Michael N. Porter

  According to Michael Porter, some people believe that today's youth, especially African American males, are lost; many of them can be found inside Behavior Disorder classes in America's public school system. This book examines how African American males end up in dead end BD classes, what happens to them in these classes, and how people can help their community to get on a life enhancing path.
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  Savage Inequalities

  Children in America's Schools

  by Jonathan Kozol

  National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his shocking account of the American educational system in this stunning New York Times bestseller, which has sold more than 250,000 hardcover copies.
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  Rain School

  by James Rumford

  It is the first day of school in Chad, Africa. Children are filling the road.  "Will they give us a notebook?" Thomas asks. "Will they give us a pencil?” "Will I learn to read?"   But when he and the other children arrive at the schoolyard, they find no classroom, no desks. Just a teacher. "We will build our school," she says. "This is our first lesson."      James Rumford, who lived in Chad as a Peace Corps... (more)
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  The Last Apprentice: Book 3

  Night of the Soul Stealer

  by Joseph Delaney

  As the weather grows colder and the nights draw in, the Spook and his apprentice Tom Ward must be even more vigilant in their battles against the boggarts, witches, and ghosts roaming the county. When they receive an unexpected visitor, the Spook decides it is time to move to his winter house in Anglezarke. It is a bleak, forbidding place, full of witches and secrets. Tom hears rumors of menacing creatures... (more)
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  No More Teachers, No More Books: The Commercialization of Canada's Schools

  by Heather-jane Robertson

  Heather-jane Robertson has been tracking the dismantling of public education in Canada for more than a decade. In No More Teachers, No More Books , she reports on developments that will come as a shock to many people who may think that the commercialization of education is just a theory, not a reality.
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  Augusta, Gone

  A True Story

  by Martha Tod Dudman

  The story of a girl who is doing everything to hurt herself and a mother who would try anything to try to save her. True, she had stopped coming down for breakfast. Stayed up in her room, ran out the door late for school, missed the bus and had to have a ride. But you think, well, that's how they are, aren't they, teenagers? And you try to remember how you were, but you were different and the times were different... (more)