For William Ayers, noted educator and activist, "the allure ofteaching, that ineffable magic drawing me back to the classroomagain and again, issues from an ideal that lies directly at itsheart: Teaching, at its best, is an enterprise that helps humanbeings reach the full measure of their humanity." In Teaching Toward Freedom, Ayers illuminates the hope as well asthe conflict that characterize the entire project of education: howit can be used in authoritarian and dehumanizing ways in theservice of the state, the church, or a restrictive existing socialorder-an idea he abhors-or, as he envisions it, as an undertakingto help students become more fully human, more engaged, moreparticipatory, more free. Drawing on his own classroom experiencesand those of his many colleagues, as well as on popular culture,film, poetry, and novels, Ayers redraws the lines concerning how weteach and why, and the surprising things we uncover when we allowstudents to become visible, vocal authors of their own texts andcreators of

This is the story of three people: acclaimed writer JuliaBlackburn; her father, Thomas - a poet and alcoholic with anaddiction to barbiturates; and her mother, Rosalie - a flirtatiouspainter with no boundaries.After Julia's parents divorced, hermother took in male lodgers with the hope they would become herlovers. When one of the lodgers began an affair with Julia,competitive Rosalie was devastated; he later committed suicide,shattering whatever relationship between mother and daughterremained. After thirty years, Rosalie, diagnosed with leukemia,came to live with Julia for the last month of her life. Only thenwere they allowed, at long last, to exist with an ease they hadnever known.

Does assigning fifty math problems accomplish any more thanassigning five? Is memorizing word lists the best way to increasevocabulary—especially when it takes away from reading time? Andwhat is the real purpose behind those devilish dioramas? The time our children spend doing homework has skyrocketed inrecent years. Parents spend countless hours cajoling their kids tocomplete such assignments—often without considering whether or notthey serve any worthwhile purpose. Even many teachers are in thedark: Only one of the hundreds the authors interviewed and surveyedhad ever taken a course specifically on homework duringtraining. The truth, according to Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish, is thatthere is almost no evidence that homework helps elementary schoolstudents achieve academic success and little evidence that it helpsolder students. Yet the nightly burden is taking a serious toll onAmerica’s families. It robs children of the sleep, play, andexercise time they need for prop

The cyberspace revolution, globalization, and the ever more rapid pace at which new knowledge is created are among the recent developments which challenge our universities. While they have adapted rather slowly in the past to changing circumstances, there is now an urgent need for them to adjust rapidly in order to fulfill their mission. Success will heavily depend on the presence of an appropriate system of governance, which is becoming more complex as the cyberspace revolution makes university structures less hierarchical. This book examines the contours and dimensions of university governance in research-intensive universities, seeks to develop cogent governance principles, and offers appropriate initiatives and recommendations. The authors, current and former heads of leading research-intensive universities in Western Europe and the United States, all share the defining concern that the fundamental changes of today pose serious challenges for universities and their system of governance. Contributors inclu

For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked incontroversy and mystery as the Federal Witness Protection Program.Now, for the first time, Gerald Shur, the man credited with thecreation of WITSEC, teams with acclaimed investigative journalistPete Earley to tell the inside story of turncoats, crime-fighters,killers, and ordinary human beings caught up in a life-and-deathgame of deception in the name of justice. WITSEC Inside the Federal Witness ProtectionProgram When the government was losing the war on organized crime in theearly 1960s, Gerald Shur, a young attorney in the JusticeDepartment’s Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, urged thedepartment to entice mobsters into breaking their code of silencewith promises of protection and relocation. But as high-ranking mobfigures came into the program, Shur discovered that keeping hiswitnesses alive in the face of death threats involved more thaneradicating old identities and creating new ones. It also meantcutting off families from their

In the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ ofLatter-day Saints (FLDS), girls can become valuable property asplural wives, but boys are expendable, even a liability. In thispowerful and heartbreaking account, former FLDS member Brent Jeffsreveals?0?2both the terror and the love he experienced growing upon his prophet’s compound—and the harsh exile existence that somany boys?0?2face once they have been expelled by the sect. Brent Jeffs is the nephew of Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leaderof the FLDS. The son of a prominent family in the church, Brentcould have grown up to have multiple wives of his own andsignificant power in the 10,000-strong community. But he knew thatbehind the group’s pious public image—women in chaste dressescarrying babies on their hips—lay a much darker reality. So hewalked away, and was the first to file a sexual-abuse lawsuitagainst his uncle. Now Brent shares his courageous story and thatof many other young men who have become “lost boys” when th

In her popular “Power Tools for Women” workshop, managementconsultant Joni Daniels teaches women how to be more effective andefficient at work and at home. The key is to tap into the metaphorof the tool kit. Too few women grow up wielding power tools andenjoying the sense of accomplishment and self-sufficiency theyimpart. With her new book, Daniels equips you with eleven powertools—invaluable skills you can transport between work and home.With conviction and a dose of humor, she explains how and when touse them to be more successful in every part of your life. Your newtool kit includes: * The Demolition Hammer: to break the rules * The Electrical Sensor: to follow your intuition * The Power Drill: to get the right information * Safety Goggles: to create your vision of success . . . andmore Whether you’re juggling work/life responsibilities, reenteringthe employment market, or striving to achieve your goals, this bookwill give you the right tools for the job.

In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the livesof World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by thetwists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish womanstarts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jewsafraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding place to theGermans. A young American man refuses to let go of the ghost of hishalf brother who died in the Warsaw ghetto. He never knew the boy,yet he learns Polish to communicate with his dybbuk. A high rankingGerman officer conceives of a plan to kill Hitler after witnessinga mass execution of Jews in Eastern Poland. Through Krall's adroit and journalistic style, her reader is throwninto a world where love, hatred, compassion, and indifferenceappear in places where we least expect them, illuminating theimplacable logic of the surreal. "It is precisely the difficult path [Krall] takes toward her topicthat has made some of these texts masterpieces." -- FrankfurterAllgemeine Zeitung (on Dancing at Other People's W

Book De*ion The "unwritten" final chapter of Anne Frank: The Diary of a YoungGirl tells the story of the time between Anne Frank's arrest andher death through the testimony of six Jewish women who survivedthe hell from which Anne Frank never retumed. From Publishers Weekly With approximately 30% more material than the original 1947edition, revealing a more rebellious and complex narrator, the newedition of Frank's classic diary spent five weeks on PW'sbestseller list. From School Library Journal Lindwer presents the tran*s of six in-depth interviewsconducted in preparation for his film documentary, The Last SevenMonths of Anne Frank . Although "Lies Goosens," real name HannahElisabeth Pick-Goslar, will be the most familiar to readers of AnneFrank: The Diary of a Young Girl , each of these women'sfirst-person accounts is compelling. They relate their backgrounds,their capture, details of the concentration camp experience, andde*ions of the time immediately following liberation. Eachincludes her relationship

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