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Wake - Why The Battle Over Diverse Public Schools Still Matters

by Karey Alison Harwood

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 The Wake County Public School System was once described as a beacon of hope for American school districts. It was both academically successful and successfully integrated. It accomplished these goals through the hard work of teachers and administrators, and through a student assignment policy that made sure no school in the countywide district became a high poverty school. Although most students attended their closest school, the "diversity policy" modified where some students were assigned to make sure no school had more than 40% of its students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch or more than 25% performing below grade level. When the school board election of 2009 swept into office a majority who favored "neighborhood schools," the diversity policy that had governed student assignment for years was eliminated. Wake: Why the Battle Over Diverse Public Schools Still Matters tells the story of the aftermath of that election, including the fierce public debate that ensued during school board meetings and in the pages of the local newspaper, and the groundswell of community support that voted in a pro-diversity school board in 2011. What was at stake in those years was the fundamental direction of the largest school district in North Carolina and the 14th largest in the U.S. Would it maintain a commitment to diverse schools, and if so, how would it balance that commitment with various competing interests and demands? Through hundreds of published opinion articles and several in depth interviews with community leaders, Wake examines the substance of that debate and explores the community’s vision for public education. Wake also explores the importance of knowing the history of a place, including the history of school segregation. Wake County’s example still resonates, and the battle over diverse public schools still matters, because owning responsibility for the problem of segregated schools (or not) will shape the direction of America’s future.
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How Schools Meet Students' Needs - Inequality, School Reform, And Caring Labor

by Katie Kerstetter

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 Drawing on conversations with teachers and classroom observations in two elementary schools, How Schools Meet Studentsâ€™ Needs explores the factors that both enable and constrain teachers in their efforts to meet studentsâ€™ needs and the consequences of how schools organise this work on teachersâ€™ labor and studentsâ€™ learning.
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College Belonging - How First-Year And First-Generation Students Navigate Campus Life

by Lisa M. Nunn

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 Reveals how colleges' and universities' efforts to foster a sense of belonging in their students are misguided. Colleges bombard students with the message to â€˜get out there!â€™ and â€˜find your placeâ€™ by joining student organisations, sports teams, and clubs. Nunn shows that this reflects a flawed understanding of what belonging is and how it works.
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College Belonging - How First-Year And First-Generation Students Navigate Campus Life

by Lisa M. Nunn

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 Reveals how colleges' and universities' efforts to foster a sense of belonging in their students are misguided. Colleges bombard students with the message to â€˜get out there!â€™ and â€˜find your placeâ€™ by joining student organisations, sports teams, and clubs. Nunn shows that this reflects a flawed understanding of what belonging is and how it works.
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Journey Before Us - First-Generation Pathways From Middle School To College

by Laura Nichols

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 More students are enrolling in college than ever before in US history. Yet, many never graduate. In The Journey Before Us, Laura Nichols examines why this is by sharing the experiences of aspiring first-generation college students as they move from middle-school to young adulthood.
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Learning To Be Latino - How Colleges Shape Identity Politics

by Daisy Verduzco Reyes

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 <div>In Learning to Be Latino, sociologist Daisy Verduzco Reyes paints a vivid picture of Latino student life at a liberal arts college, a research university, and a regional public university, outlining students’ interactions with one another, with non-Latino peers, and with faculty, administrators, and the outside community. Reyes identifies the normative institutional arrangements that shape the social relationships relevant to Latino students’ lives, including school size, the demographic profile of the student body, residential arrangements, the relationship between students and administrators, and how well diversity programs integrate students through cultural centers and retention centers. Together these characteristics create an environment for Latino students that influences how they interact, identify, and come to understand their place on campus. Drawing on extensive ethnographic observations, Reyes shows how college campuses shape much more than students’ academic and occupational trajectories; they mold students’ ideas about inequality and opportunity in America, their identities, and even how they intend to practice politics. </div>
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Divergent Paths To College - Race, Class, And Inequality In High Schools

by Megan M Holland

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 In Divergent Paths to College, Megan M. Holland examines how high schools structure different pathways that lead students to very different college destinations based on race and class. She finds that racial and class inequalities are reproduced through unequal access to key sources of information, even among students in the same school and even in schools with well-established college-going cultures. As the college application process becomes increasingly complex and high-stakes, social capital, or relationships with people who can provide information as well as support and guidance, becomes much more critical. Although much has been written about the college-bound experience, we know less about the role that social capital plays, and specifically how high schools can serve as organizational brokers of social ties. The relationships that high schools cultivate between students and higher education institutions by inviting college admissions officers into their schools to market to students, is a particularly critical, yet unexplored source of college information.
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Lesson Plans - The Institutional Demands Of Becoming A Teacher

by Judson G. Everitt

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 Takes readers into the everyday worlds of teacher training, and reveals the complexities and dilemmas they confront as they learn how to perform a job that many people assume anybody can do. Using rich qualitative data, Everitt analyzes how people make sense of their prospective jobs as teachers, and how their introduction to this profession is shaped by institutionalized rules and practices.
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Class Cultures And Social Mobility - The Hidden Strengths Of Working-Class First-Generation Graduates

by Paul Dean

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Undocumented In The U.S. South - How Youth Navigate Racialization In Policy And School Contexts

by Sophia Rodriguez

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Class Cultures And Social Mobility - The Hidden Strengths Of Working-Class First-Generation Graduates

by Paul Dean

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Undocumented In The U.S. South - How Youth Navigate Racialization In Policy And School Contexts

by Sophia Rodriguez

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How Schools Meet Students' Needs - Inequality, School Reform, And Caring Labor

by Katie Kerstetter

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 Drawing on conversations with teachers and classroom observations in two elementary schools, How Schools Meet Studentsâ€™ Needs explores the factors that both enable and constrain teachers in their efforts to meet studentsâ€™ needs and the consequences of how schools organise this work on teachersâ€™ labor and studentsâ€™ learning.
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How Schools Meet Students' Needs - Inequality, School Reform, And Caring Labor

by Katie Kerstetter

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 Drawing on conversations with teachers and classroom observations in two elementary schools, How Schools Meet Studentsâ€™ Needs explores the factors that both enable and constrain teachers in their efforts to meet studentsâ€™ needs and the consequences of how schools organise this work on teachersâ€™ labor and studentsâ€™ learning.
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Seton Hall University - A History, 1856â€“2006

by Dermot Quinn

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 Founded in 1856 by Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley of Newark, Seton Hall University has played a large part in New Jersey and American Catholic life for nearly two centuries. In this vivid and elegantly written history, Dermot Quinn examines how Seton Hall was able to develop as an institution while keeping faith with its founderâ€™s vision.
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Documenting The American Student Abroad - The Media Cultures Of International Education

by Kelly Hankin

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 Extoled by students as personally transformative and celebrated in academia for fostering cross-cultural understanding, study abroad is also promoted by the US government as a form of cultural diplomacy and a bridge to future participation in the global marketplace. Kelly Hankin explores the documentary media cultures that shape these beliefs.
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Those Were The Days - Why All In The Family Still Matters

by Jim Cullen

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 This is the first full-length study of All in the Family, a show that was remarkably popular even as it dared to address such taboo topics as rape, abortion, and racial prejudice. Through a close analysis of the sitcomâ€™s main characters, Jim Cullen demonstrates how it was able to appeal to a broad spectrum of American viewers.
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The Journey Before Us - First-Generation Pathways From Middle School To College

by Laura Nichols

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 More students are enrolling in college than ever before in US history. Yet, many never graduate. In The Journey Before Us, Laura Nichols examines why this is by sharing the experiences of aspiring first-generation college students as they move from middle-school to young adulthood.
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Documenting The American Student Abroad - The Media Cultures Of International Education

by Kelly Hankin

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 Extoled by students as personally transformative and celebrated in academia for fostering cross-cultural understanding, study abroad is also promoted by the US government as a form of cultural diplomacy and a bridge to future participation in the global marketplace. Kelly Hankin explores the documentary media cultures that shape these beliefs.
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College Belonging - How First-Year And First-Generation Students Navigate Campus Life

by Lisa M. Nunn

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 Reveals how colleges' and universities' efforts to foster a sense of belonging in their students are misguided. Colleges bombard students with the message to â€˜get out there!â€™ and â€˜find your placeâ€™ by joining student organisations, sports teams, and clubs. Nunn shows that this reflects a flawed understanding of what belonging is and how it works.
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Hear #Metoo In India - News, Social Media, And Anti-Rape And Sexual Harassment Activism

by Pallavi Guha

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 Offers framework to the relationship between rural subaltern anti-rape feminist activists in India and the transnational anti-rape cyberfeminism, and investigates why hashtags may or may not be successful in digitally emerging countries and identify how rape and sexual harassment incidents slip through the existing media, activism, and policy gap.
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Ready For Your First Horse? - Giddy Up Beginner Books (3): An Experts Guide With Essential Cheat Sheet Summaries

by Debbie Burgermeister

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Those Were The Days - Why All In The Family Still Matters

by Jim Cullen

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The Journey Before Us - First-Generation Pathways From Middle School To College

by Laura Nichols

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 More students are enrolling in college than ever before in US history. Yet, many never graduate. In The Journey Before Us, Laura Nichols examines why this is by sharing the experiences of aspiring first-generation college students as they move from middle-school to young adulthood.
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