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Post-Pandemic Research on Modern American Homeschooling

Demographic Trends and Policies

Edited by Angela R. Watson ...

Homeschooling in the United States is expanding and diversifying, creating urgent demand for rigorous research to inform policy and practice. This first volume—one of two derived from a special issue of the Journal of School Choice—responds to long-standing critiques that homeschool scholarship lacks rigour and is too often shaped by advocacy.Featuring research studies from 26 authors across 13 ... Read more

$89.31 CAD

Homeschooling in the United States is expanding and diversifying, creating urgent demand for rigorous research to inform policy and practice. This first volume—one of two derived from a special issue of the Journal of School Choice—responds to long-standing critiques that homeschool scholarship lacks rigour and is too often shaped by advocacy.Featuring research studies from 26 authors across 13
... Read more
Post-Pandemic Research on Modern American Homeschooling

Diversity within the Homeschooling Community

Edited by Angela R. Watson ...

Homeschooling in the United States has expanded steadily for decades, but its growth accelerated dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing unprecedented diversity in who homeschools and why. This second volume—paired with the first from a special Journal of School Choice issue dedicated to rigorous homeschooling research—aims to elevate the quality of scholarship and inform evidence ... Read more

$89.31 CAD

Homeschooling in the United States has expanded steadily for decades, but its growth accelerated dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing unprecedented diversity in who homeschools and why. This second volume—paired with the first from a special Journal of School Choice issue dedicated to rigorous homeschooling research—aims to elevate the quality of scholarship and inform evidence
... Read more
My Beloved Other

A Memoir of Love, Race, and Optimism in a Time of Denial

by Nick Abadzis, Angela Watson ...

A timely graphic memoir about the far-reaching impact of racism in today’s society, as seen through the lens of one couple’s interracial marriage.Where does the concept of “the other” come from? And who truly benefits when we allow fear of the other to steer our society? Through charming banter and illuminating anecdotes from their personal lives, writer-artist Nick Abadzis and psychotherapist ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

A timely graphic memoir about the far-reaching impact of racism in today’s society, as seen through the lens of one couple’s interracial marriage.Where does the concept of “the other” come from? And who truly benefits when we allow fear of the other to steer our society? Through charming banter and illuminating anecdotes from their personal lives, writer-artist Nick Abadzis and psychotherapist
... Read more
COVID-19 and the Classroom

How Schools Navigated the Great Disruption

by Martha Bradley-Dorsey, Jodie Brinkman, Katrina Brown-Aliffi, Dick Carpenter, Carol Cash, Maegan Dayton, Joshua Dunn, Charles Glenn, Michelle Hicks, Samantha Hope, Savanna Love, Sarah Marrs, Kim McKnight, Natalie Neugebauer, Emiola Oyefuga, Gabrielle Pickover, Maria Pitre-Martin, Christine Powell, Ted Price, Rodrigo Queiroz e Melo, David Shannon, Parinita Shetty, Deja Trammell, Angela Watson, Sarah Woods, Diana Yesbeck, LaRon Scott, Robert Maranto, Neal P. McCluskey ...

COVID-19 and the Classroom: How Schools Navigated the Great Disruption presents social science research that explores how schools navigated the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 through the 2020-21 school year. This book also serves as a history book, documenting what this period was like for those involved in the enterprise of educating children. The book is divided into ... Read more

$45.99 CAD

COVID-19 and the Classroom: How Schools Navigated the Great Disruption presents social science research that explores how schools navigated the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 through the 2020-21 school year. This book also serves as a history book, documenting what this period was like for those involved in the enterprise of educating children. The book is divided into
... Read more
Generational Consciousness, Narrative, and Politics

by Molly Andrews, Ron Eyerman, Mike Hepworth, Ángela López, Susan H. McDaniel, Tommi Hoikkala, Semi Purhonen, J P. Roos, Peggy Watson ...

With the erosion of strong class theory, sociologists have recently started to look at aspects of social stratification other than class. One of the most interesting new areas of investigation is the sociology of generations.This book brings together the work of scholars who are making a major contribution to this new sociological interest. Through a combination of innovative theoretical and ... Read more

$136.99 CAD

With the erosion of strong class theory, sociologists have recently started to look at aspects of social stratification other than class. One of the most interesting new areas of investigation is the sociology of generations.This book brings together the work of scholars who are making a major contribution to this new sociological interest. Through a combination of innovative theoretical and
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Watch Us Rise

by Renée Watson, Ellen Hagan ...

Narrated by Angela Lewis, Em Eldridge ...

Unabridged

8 hours 7 min

Bloomsbury presents Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan, read by Angela Lewis and Em Eldridge."This stunning book is the story I’ve been waiting for my whole life; where girls rise up to claim their space with joy and power.” —Laurie Halse Anderson, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Speak"An extraordinary story of two indomitable spirits." —Brendan Kiely, New York ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan, read by Angela Lewis and Em Eldridge."This stunning book is the story I’ve been waiting for my whole life; where girls rise up to claim their space with joy and power.” —Laurie Halse Anderson, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Speak"An extraordinary story of two indomitable spirits." —Brendan Kiely, New York
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Recovering Five Generations Hence

The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace

by Bruce A. Glasrud, Alisha Knight, M. Giulia Fabi, Angela Boswell, Brian M. Jack, Veronica Watson, Nikki Brown ...

Series Book 120 - Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achieved. But life was hard for her and other blacks living and working in the Jim Crow South. Her struggles convinced her that education, particularly that involving the printed word, was the key to black liberation.In 1916, before Marcus Garvey gained ... Read more

$23.99 CAD

Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achieved. But life was hard for her and other blacks living and working in the Jim Crow South. Her struggles convinced her that education, particularly that involving the printed word, was the key to black liberation.In 1916, before Marcus Garvey gained
... Read more

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For Black Girls Like Me

by Mariama Lockington ...

Narrated by Imani Parks ...

Unabridged

6 hours 35 min

I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark.Makeda June Kirkland is eleven-years-old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big sister are white, and even though she loves her family very much, Makeda often feels left out. When Makeda's family moves from Maryland to New Mexico, she leaves behind her best friend, Lena- the only other adopted black girl she knows- for a new life. In New ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

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I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark.Makeda June Kirkland is eleven-years-old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big sister are white, and even though she loves her family very much, Makeda often feels left out. When Makeda's family moves from Maryland to New Mexico, she leaves behind her best friend, Lena- the only other adopted black girl she knows- for a new life. In New
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Betty Before X

by Ilyasah Shabazz, Renée Watson ...

Narrated by Ilyasah Shabazz ...

Unabridged

4 hours 16 min

***Winner of a Parents' Choice Silver Award*"In clear, measured tones, the author recounts Betty's discomfort with her home life and her work with the Housewives League...Shabazz differentiates between Betty and her mother, Ollie Mae Sanders, through pitch and projects the latter's frequent annoyance, showing why Betty often felt underappreciated. An afterword helps young listeners understand ... Read more

$23.99 CAD

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***Winner of a Parents' Choice Silver Award*"In clear, measured tones, the author recounts Betty's discomfort with her home life and her work with the Housewives League...Shabazz differentiates between Betty and her mother, Ollie Mae Sanders, through pitch and projects the latter's frequent annoyance, showing why Betty often felt underappreciated. An afterword helps young listeners understand
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The Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet Jacobs ...

I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in his trade, that, when buildings out of the common line were to be erected, he was sent for from long distances, to be head workman. On condition of paying his mistress two hundred dollars a year, and supporting himself, he was allowed to ... Read more

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I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in his trade, that, when buildings out of the common line were to be erected, he was sent for from long distances, to be head workman. On condition of paying his mistress two hundred dollars a year, and supporting himself, he was allowed to
... Read more
The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois ...

First published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is an American classic of race, culture and education at the turn of the twentieth century. The book contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in a magazine called, Atlantic Monthly.This book comprises fourteen essays written between 1897 and 1903 that range across social, political and economic history, religion ... Read more

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First published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is an American classic of race, culture and education at the turn of the twentieth century. The book contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in a magazine called, Atlantic Monthly.This book comprises fourteen essays written between 1897 and 1903 that range across social, political and economic history, religion
... Read more

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Notes of a Native Son

by James Baldwin ...

A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writerSince its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when ... Read more

$26.39 CAD

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A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writerSince its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when
... Read more

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