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Eugene Y. Lowe, Jr., is Associate Provost of Northwestern University.
Issues of diversity and affirmative action have turned elite higher education in the United States into contested terrain. Rights revolutions in the country have raised hopes that have proved difficult to fulfill. Most particularly, expectations about access and opportunity--redressing the unfairness of the past--have collided with widely held beliefs: that educational institutions...
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A crisis of immense magnitude persists in higher education in the United States. For this third edition of The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education, Kofi Lomotey and William A. Smith have gathered outstanding scholars in the field to address this dilemma on several levels. In thirteen original essays, contributors establish a framework for understanding the current crisis, provide historical perspective on the present, offer a stark overview...
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Michael S. McPherson is President of Macalester College. Morton Owen Schapiro is Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California.
Student aid in higher education has recently become a hot-button issue. Parents trying to pay for their children's education, college administrators competing for students, and even President Bill Clinton, whose recently proposed tax breaks for college would change sharply the...
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Discover the Power in You! “Stories and Songs to Build Self-Esteem in Children: Music and Stories” can be a powerful tool to enable you to learn and grow in a positive way. Since positive thoughts lead to positive behavior, feeding your mind uplifting music can turn you into a more creative and worthwhile you! The songs and stories in this book and recording are designed to feed children's minds with positive suggestions that will enhance their...
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The Chosen We elevates the oral histories of 105 accomplished, college-educated Black women who earned success despite experiencing reprehensible racist and sexist barriers. The central argument is that these women succeeded in and beyond college by developing a Chosen We-a community with one another. The book builds on their words and insights to offer a powerful rethinking of educational success that moves away from individualistic and competitive...
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Introducing 50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement, the latest addition to the highly acclaimed 50 Strategies series. Designed to provide K-8 educators with practical, research-backed ideas to enhance the summer school experience, this book is an invaluable resource for teachers seeking innovative and engaging approaches to summer learning.
Summer school offers a unique opportunity for students to accomplish grade-level learning objectives...
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Shortly after Anish and his family arrive in town, he is surprised to meet a pigeon collecting coins. "That's why they call me Cash, young man," says the pigeon. The two quickly become friends, and Cash tells Anish that a squirrel is trying to steal his loot. Cash also shares the amazing story of his ancestor, Cher Ami, a hero who saved many soldiers in 1918. Anish admits that he is a little frightened because the next day is his first day at school...
49) Spooky Letters
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A, B, C, D, which creepy crawly is behind each letter. Spooky letters is a traditional ABC book with a haunting theme for the season to help kids have fun while learning their alphabet during the witching hour.
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Today, no institution can ignore the need for deep conversations about race and ethnicity. But colleges and universities face a unique set of challenges as they explore these topics. Diversity Matters offers leaders a roadmap as they think through how their campuses can serve all students well.
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Campus Case Studies: Transforming Institutions with a Commitment to Diversity
Why We Stayed: Lessons in Resiliency and Leadership from...
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This book is written to help high school students prepare for becoming successful college applicants. It is also written to help high school seniors and entering college students prepare for ongoing success once they arrive on campus. The book is written by Dr. Louis Hempel, who has practiced general pediatrics in Metro Atlanta for over 30 years. During his long career, he has interacted with thousands of high school and college students whose families...
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“The Daisy's Barn” children's stories bring Daisy, the beautiful palomino mare, to life in her special way of teaching kids through her experiences and adventures.
In this book, Daisy and Erika are going on a trail ride to see if they can find wildlife on the trails and in the woods. Erika finds lots of tracks on the ground but doesn't know who made the tracks. Daisy knows if they follow the tracks, they will be able to find out who made them....
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Evangeline Evershine is a bright and curious young girl who questions many things about space and heavenly bodies.
In the first book about Evangeline, she questioned the nightly disappearance of the Sun.
In this book, she shifts her curiosity and questions to the movement and the daily disappearance of the Moon.
Fortunately, her father is an astronaut, and so together they travel through space and learn much about these heavenly bodies.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky was the principal of a combined primary and secondary school in the rural settlement of Pavlysh in central Ukraine from 1948 until his death in 1970. Not satisfied with a purely administrative role, he created his own experimental preschool class by inviting parents to send their children to school a year early. The result was the 'School of Joy', a preschool program that was conducted almost completely outdoors. During a magical...
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Stephen McCranie's Space Boy volume 7
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Amy investigates the secrets behind Oliver's identity, while a new romance blossoms between Schaefer and Tammie, and Zeph reveals his feelings for Amy.
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Sheen, a member of Seymour's House at Wrykyn School, flees from an unexpected assault by town boys. His colleagues wade into the fight with relish, acquiring bruises and sore heads, but in the fracas, Sheen is missed, and the story makes the rounds of Wrykyn that when blows were traded, Sheen "funked it."
Honor in such institutions depends on reliably standing with your House. As punishment for his defection, Sheen is "cut" - treated as if he did...
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A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past--the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia's death and the conviction of the school's athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers--needs--to...
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Stephen McCranie's Space Boy volume 11
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"Oliver is faced with the choice that will drive the course for the rest of his life, as the young boy needs to learn to cope with the new world around him. On top of that, the saga of the Arno and the mysterious Artifact thickens, and the people on Earthstruggle to find answers"--
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Stephen McCranie's Space Boy volume 10
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"Deep in space, the Arno closes in on their destination...the artifact. Oliver spends his days in school, with his little brother, and battling Wargles! After his father, Wyatt, gave him a family heirloom, a compass, Oliver fears he broke it when the needle starts spinning uncontrollably. This new discovery alarms his father who begins to suspect that the ship they all live on may be in grave danger. However, Wyatt's warnings and suspicions only bring...
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