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Author: Mychal Denzel Smith Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1568588720 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 208
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Brave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode and through an uncertain future. The events of the past decade have forced us to reckon with who we are and who we want to be. We have been invested in a set of beliefs about our American identity: our exceptionalism, the inevitable rightness of our path, the promise that hard work and determination will carry us to freedom. But in Stakes Is High, Mychal Denzel Smith confronts the shortcomings of these stories -- and with the American Dream itself -- and calls on us to live up to the principles we profess but fail to realize. In a series of incisive essays, Smith exposes the stark contradictions at the heart of American life, holding all of us, individually and as a nation, to account. We've gotten used to looking away, but the fissures and casual violence of institutional oppression are ever-present. There is a future that is not as grim as our past. In this profound work, Smith helps us envision it with care, honesty, and imagination.
Author: Mychal Denzel Smith Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1568588720 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
Brave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode and through an uncertain future. The events of the past decade have forced us to reckon with who we are and who we want to be. We have been invested in a set of beliefs about our American identity: our exceptionalism, the inevitable rightness of our path, the promise that hard work and determination will carry us to freedom. But in Stakes Is High, Mychal Denzel Smith confronts the shortcomings of these stories -- and with the American Dream itself -- and calls on us to live up to the principles we profess but fail to realize. In a series of incisive essays, Smith exposes the stark contradictions at the heart of American life, holding all of us, individually and as a nation, to account. We've gotten used to looking away, but the fissures and casual violence of institutional oppression are ever-present. There is a future that is not as grim as our past. In this profound work, Smith helps us envision it with care, honesty, and imagination.
Author: Sharon L. Nichols Publisher: Harvard Education Press ISBN: 1612500803 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 242
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Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system. For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has dominated the field of education. This passionate and provocative book provides a fresh perspective on the issue and powerful ammunition for opponents of high-stakes tests. Their analysis is grounded in the application of Campbell’s Law, which posits that the greater the social consequences associated with a quantitative indicator (such as test scores), the more likely it is that the indicator itself will become corrupted—and the more likely it is that the use of the indicator will corrupt the social processes it was intended to monitor. Nichols and Berliner illustrate both aspects of this “corruption,” showing how the pressures of high-stakes testing erode the validity of test scores and distort the integrity of the education system. Their analysis provides a coherent and comprehensive intellectual framework for the wide-ranging arguments against high-stakes testing, while putting a compelling human face on the data marshalled in support of those arguments.
Author: Emilie Rose Publisher: Silhouette ISBN: 1426842856 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 187
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Payback was the perfect present. Last year Trent Hightower walked away after a foiled one-night stand and had completely forgotten Paige McCauley. Now, she intended to seduce the untouchable CEO—and this time leave him wanting more. But Trent wasn't the man she thought he was. If he'd been with the sensual brunette, there would be no mistaking it. Yet his explosive secret was one he had to keep, even if it meant playing Paige's intoxicating game of seduction. A game he was determined to win.
Author: Carolyn Jewel Publisher: cJewel Books ISBN: 1937823040 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 276
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He’s a wealthy nobleman. She’s leading a double life. Will their love sing? American Isobel Rowland doesn’t have much beside her music. When she finds out she’s the illegitimate daughter of an English aristocrat, the world opens up to near-unlimited possibilities. The only problem is that her father wants her to give up the music and find a husband. Alexander, the Marquess of Hartforde, has little to no interest in remarriage, though he does find the young Miss Rowland intriguing. As he considers his options, Alexander acts as a patron to a promising American musician, Ian Rowland. Little does he know, Ian is none other than Isobel in disguise! Can Isobel keep up her charade as she develops feelings for the Marquess? What will Alexander do when he finds out the truth? It’s time to face the music. Passion’s Song is the debut Georgian romance novel of author Carolyn Jewel. If you like mistaken identity plots, strong female heroines, and laugh-out-loud moments, then you’ll love a story that will be music to your ears. Buy Passion’s Song to read the melodious tale of love today! Passion’s Song was originally published in 1987 and is the first book I wrote. Other than correcting typographical errors in the original, this book stands as I wrote it in 1987. The back cover copy of the original book referred to a devilish duke, even though there was no duke in the story. I have refrained from the temptation to add one.
Author: Simona Ahrnstedt Publisher: Kensington Books ISBN: 1496706242 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 676
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A novel of betrayal and passion in a frozen landscape far from the city lights, by the bestselling author of All In and Falling . . . Ambra Vinter dreams of making it to the top of her chosen field. But instead, the beautiful young journalist is sent on assignment to Kiruna, a tiny mining town far north of Stockholm, chasing after yesterday’s news. In December, this is a place on the edge of darkness—and Ambra’s memories of it are just as bleak, for it is where she once suffered at the hands of a brutal foster father. Yet it is here, in the middle of nowhere, that she meets a man who takes her breath away . . . Tom Lexington has left Special Forces for a career in private security. But he is still haunted by a mission that almost cost him his life—and by the woman who shattered his heart. When he meets Ambra in a café, she brings a promise of light, and heat, to his life—if he dares to let go of all he’s been holding onto. Now, as Ambra risks looking more closely at her own painful past, and stumbles into a story that’s hotter than she ever expected, she and Tom must decide whether to take a chance on each other and come in from the cold . . . Praise for All In “Sexy, smart, and completely unputdownable. Breathtaking, from start to finish.” —New York Times bestselling author Tessa Dare “A compelling story that has heat and heart.” —New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown “I've been searching for this feeling all year: this book left me absolutely breathless.” —New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren
Author: Sarah Kozinn Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472526007 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 279
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Justice Performed: Courtroom TV Shows and the Theaters of Popular Law is the first study of the reality TV genre to trace its theatrical legacy, connecting the phenomenon of the daytime TV shows to a long history of theatrical trials staged to educate audiences in pedagogies of citizenship. It examines how judge TV fulfills part of law's performative function: that of providing a participatory spectacle the public can recognize as justice. Since it debuted in 1981 with The People's Court, which made famous its star jurist, Judge Joseph A. Wapner, dozens of judges have made the move to television. Unlike the demographics in actual courts, most TV judges are non-white men and women hailing from diverse cultural and racial backgrounds. These judges charge their decisions with personal preferences and cultural innuendos, painting a very different picture of what justice looks like. Drawing on interviews with TV judges, producers and production staff, as well as the author's experience as a studio audience member, the book scrutinizes the performativity of the genre, the needs it meets and the inherent ideological biases about race, gender and civic instruction.
Author: Nancy Fichtman Dana Publisher: Corwin Press ISBN: 1412992478 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 201
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This book helps districts define, develop, and implement a systematic approach to districtwide professional development. Its award-winning inquiry model challenges participants to take control of their own learning.
Author: Ray Laurence Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1441182071 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 262
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In what may be the most in-depth study yet published of a film star's body of work, Susan Hayward charts the career of Simone Signoret, one of the great Frech actresses of the 20th Century.Signoret- who won an Oscar in 1960 for her performance in Room at the Top- was a key figure in French cinema for 40 years. But it is not so much her longevity that impresses, as it is the quality of work she produced as her career progressed. She started out as a stunningly beautiful woman, winning major international awards five times for her roles, and yet was only moderately in demand during those years. From the 1960s onwards, when her looks began to decline significantly, Signoret was in greater demand, and produced most of her output. She insisted on playing roles consonant with her real age, and often chose to play roles that portrayed wher as even more ugly than she had become.Simore Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign is a remarkable achievement, a labor of love from one of the world's leading scholars of French cinema.
Author: Mariana Cooper Publisher: Watkins Media Limited ISBN: 1780288921 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 257
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What if the answers to your prayers are closer than you think? Do you keep asking, but feel your prayers are going unanswered or taking an extremely long time to come to fruition? Can you trust your gut feeling to guide you, when so far you’ve failed to manifest many of your goals? When Mariana Cooper hit up against the frustrations and heartbreak of dashed dreams, loss of loved ones and the complications that real life brings, she set out on a quest to learn the language in which we actually receive the answers to our desires. What she discovered is the Energetic Communication System that delivers the answers to our prayers – she calls it the Aha! Factor. Now it’s time for you to activate your own Aha! Factor - The little-known language of Answered Prayer In this eye-opening book Mariana shares: · How to access your Aha! Factor to receive and interpret the answers to your prayers and intentions · What an Aha! Moment actually is and how to have more of them throughout your day to help you to make decisions that you can believe in. · The list of 101 Signs, Symbols and Synchronicities that show when a message is coming to you and what it means. · How to easily incorporate your Aha! Factor into all aspects of your life, including money, love and other relationships, body, work, handling toxic people and situations and bringing your biggest dreams and goals to fruition much more quickly than you could ever do with logic alone. When you are fully aware of your Aha! Factor and how to use it, you can finally interpret the answers that are always being sent your way – and anything is possible!
Author: Christopher J. Richmann Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040125107 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 156
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This book asserts that authority is a contested category and explores why traditional notions of authority are increasingly in tension with progressive and postmodern claims, devolving into stalemate, schizophrenia, or power plays. Offering a Christian framework as a philosophically coherent and practical alternative for teachers, the author argues that Jesus provides a pattern from which to reconstruct our conception of teaching authority in ways that align with evidence-informed teaching practices and cultivate intellectual virtues. Rather than examine “Jesus as teacher,” the book instead applies the central insight on authority that Jesus embodies. This authority with which Jesus taught, it argues, stemmed from his passion—that is, passive, even suffering, experience. The author aligns this to a subject-centered conception of teaching (as opposed to student-centered or teacher-centered) in which the subject is the authority and knowing is identified with being acted upon by the subject. Teaching with authority thereby becomes a matter of unveiling suffering with students and inviting them into their own suffering encounter with the subject. Building on the work on Parker Palmer and exploring pedagogical practice from a Christian perspective, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in higher education, evidence-based teaching, educational theory, religion and education, and Christian history and thought.
Author: Mychal Denzel Smith
Author: Mychal Denzel Smith
Author: Sharon L. Nichols
Author: Emilie Rose
Author: Carolyn Jewel
Author: Simona Ahrnstedt
Author: Sarah Kozinn
Author: Nancy Fichtman Dana
Author: Ray Laurence
Author: Mariana Cooper
Author: Christopher J. Richmann