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Schooling the Movement

The Activism of Southern Black Educators from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Era

Edited by Derrick P. Alridge, Jon N. Hale, Tondra L. Loder-Jackson ...

A fresh examination of teacher activism during the civil rights movementSouthern Black educators were central contributors and activists in the civil rights movement. They contributed to the movement through their classrooms, schools, universities, and communities. Drawing on oral history interviews and archival research, Schooling the Movement examines the pedagogical activism and vital ... Read more

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A fresh examination of teacher activism during the civil rights movementSouthern Black educators were central contributors and activists in the civil rights movement. They contributed to the movement through their classrooms, schools, universities, and communities. Drawing on oral history interviews and archival research, Schooling the Movement examines the pedagogical activism and vital
... Read more
The Choice We Face

How Segregation, Race, and Power Have Shaped America's Most Controversial Education Reform Movement

by Jon Hale ...

A comprehensive history of school choice in the US, from its birth in the 1950s as the most effective weapon to oppose integration to its lasting impact in reshaping the public education system today.Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right. In The Choice We Face, scholar Jon Hale reveals what most fail to see: school choice is grounded in a complex history of race, ... Read more

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A comprehensive history of school choice in the US, from its birth in the 1950s as the most effective weapon to oppose integration to its lasting impact in reshaping the public education system today.Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right. In The Choice We Face, scholar Jon Hale reveals what most fail to see: school choice is grounded in a complex history of race,
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The Freedom Schools

Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

by Jon Hale ...

Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism and participatory democracy. The schools, as Jon N. Hale demonstrates, had a crucial role in the civil rights movement and a major impact on the development of ... Read more

$31.99 USD

Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism and participatory democracy. The schools, as Jon N. Hale demonstrates, had a crucial role in the civil rights movement and a major impact on the development of
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A New Kind of Youth

Historically Black High Schools and Southern Student Activism, 1920–1975

by Jon N. Hale ...

The story of activist youth in America is usually framed around the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and college campuses, focusing primarily on college students in the 1960s and 1970s. But a remarkably effective tradition of Black high school student activism in the civil rights era has gone understudied.In 1951, students at R. R. Moton High School in rural Virginia led a student walkout and ... Read more

$21.99 USD

The story of activist youth in America is usually framed around the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and college campuses, focusing primarily on college students in the 1960s and 1970s. But a remarkably effective tradition of Black high school student activism in the civil rights era has gone understudied.In 1951, students at R. R. Moton High School in rural Virginia led a student walkout and
... Read more
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Kiss Me Under the Christmas Lights

by Cindy Ray Hale ...

Narrated by Mari Bee, Jon Brattin ...

Series Audiobook 8 - Maple Creek Romantic Comedy
Unabridged

2 hours 24 min

A surprise kiss leads to a fake romance. Will they find love this Christmas?When coffee shop owner Josie Sparks spots her ex boyfriend picking out a Christmas tree with a new girl, she does the unexpected. She grabs his roommate, Noah, and lays a kiss on him right in front of her ex. The new girlfriend assumes they’re dating, and Josie and Noah decide to go with it.Firefighter Noah Stanley can’t ... Read more

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A surprise kiss leads to a fake romance. Will they find love this Christmas?When coffee shop owner Josie Sparks spots her ex boyfriend picking out a Christmas tree with a new girl, she does the unexpected. She grabs his roommate, Noah, and lays a kiss on him right in front of her ex. The new girlfriend assumes they’re dating, and Josie and Noah decide to go with it.Firefighter Noah Stanley can’t
... Read more
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The Choice We Face

How Segregation, Race, and Power Have Shaped America's Most Controversial Education Reform Movement

by Jon Hale ...

Narrated by Wolf Williams ...

Unabridged

8 hours 24 min

A comprehensive history of school choice in the US, from its birth in the 1950s as the most effective weapon to oppose integration to its lasting impact in reshaping the public education system today.Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right. In The Choice We Face, scholar Jon Hale reveals what most fail to see: school choice is grounded in a complex history of race, ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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A comprehensive history of school choice in the US, from its birth in the 1950s as the most effective weapon to oppose integration to its lasting impact in reshaping the public education system today.Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right. In The Choice We Face, scholar Jon Hale reveals what most fail to see: school choice is grounded in a complex history of race,
... Read more

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To Write in the Light of Freedom

The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools

Edited by William Sturkey, Jon N. Hale ...

Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in 1964. One of the most successful initiatives of Freedom Summer, more than forty Freedom Schools opened doors to thousands of young African American students. Here they learned civics, politics, and history, curriculum ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in 1964. One of the most successful initiatives of Freedom Summer, more than forty Freedom Schools opened doors to thousands of young African American students. Here they learned civics, politics, and history, curriculum
... Read more
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Chet Gecko, Private Eye: Book 4 - Farewell, My Lunchbag

by Bruce Hale ...

Narrated by Jon Cryer ...

Series Audiobook 4 - Chet Gecko, Private Eye
Unabridged

1 hour 31 min

Danger may be Chet Gecko's business, but dessert is his delight. . . .Chet Gecko's hunger for mystery is matched only by his appetite for cockroach casserole, mosquito marshmallow surprise, and stinkbug pie. So when the cafeteria needs help nabbing a food thief, Chet digs into the case with a passion he usually reserves only for dessert. But this time Chet may have bitten off more than even he can ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Danger may be Chet Gecko's business, but dessert is his delight. . . .Chet Gecko's hunger for mystery is matched only by his appetite for cockroach casserole, mosquito marshmallow surprise, and stinkbug pie. So when the cafeteria needs help nabbing a food thief, Chet digs into the case with a passion he usually reserves only for dessert. But this time Chet may have bitten off more than even he can
... Read more
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Chet Gecko, Private Eye, Book 2: The Mystery of Mr. Nice

by Bruce Hale ...

Narrated by Jon Cryer ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Chet Gecko, Private Eye
Unabridged

1 hour 19 min

Most folks know him as the best lizard detective at Emerson Hicky Elementary, but it's not all knuckles and know-how with Chet Gecko. He's also got his artistic side.If it wasn't for his art, he might never have been sent to Principal Zero's office, where he stumbled onto the mystery of Mr. Nice.Because whatever you can say about Principal Zero, one thing is certain: He is not nice. Until now.Chet ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Most folks know him as the best lizard detective at Emerson Hicky Elementary, but it's not all knuckles and know-how with Chet Gecko. He's also got his artistic side.If it wasn't for his art, he might never have been sent to Principal Zero's office, where he stumbled onto the mystery of Mr. Nice.Because whatever you can say about Principal Zero, one thing is certain: He is not nice. Until now.Chet
... Read more
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Chet Gecko, Private Eye: Book 3 - The Big Nap

by Bruce Hale ...

Narrated by Jon Cryer ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Chet Gecko, Private Eye
Unabridged

1 hour 37 min

Grammar school—it's all about eating and sleeping. Well, for Chet Gecko, anyway.To Chet, nothing is more divine than a plate of Mrs. Bagoong's Mothloaf Surprise followed by a sweet bit of shut-eye on the playground. (Besides a few Pillbug Crunch bars and a monthlong holiday, that is.)In this hilarious mystery from Chet's tattered casebook, he and his mockingbird partner, Natalie Attired, must ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Grammar school—it's all about eating and sleeping. Well, for Chet Gecko, anyway.To Chet, nothing is more divine than a plate of Mrs. Bagoong's Mothloaf Surprise followed by a sweet bit of shut-eye on the playground. (Besides a few Pillbug Crunch bars and a monthlong holiday, that is.)In this hilarious mystery from Chet's tattered casebook, he and his mockingbird partner, Natalie Attired, must
... Read more
Pandemic at the Polls

How the Politics of COVID-19 Played into American Elections

by Joseph Anthony, Samuel Baltz, Mitchell Brown, Declan Chin, John Curiel, Jon Griffiths, Joelle Gross, Kathleen Hale, David C. Kimball, Anita Manion, Marc Meredith0, Lindsay Nielson1, Michael J. Ritter2, Charles Stewart III3, Mara Suttmann-Lea4, Sidney Carl Turner5, Adriano Udani6, David Varas Alonso7, Martha Kropf8, Thessalia Merivaki9, Dari Sylvester Tran0 ...

In 2020, COVID-19 became a global pandemic devastating physical and mental health, social wellbeing, and the economic status of millions globally. Unforgettable images of death and the deep wounds inflicted on the livelihoods of employees and business owners were broadcast daily in the media. Less visible was the political fallout that threatened the rights of countless voters seeking to exercise ... Read more

$89.09 USD

In 2020, COVID-19 became a global pandemic devastating physical and mental health, social wellbeing, and the economic status of millions globally. Unforgettable images of death and the deep wounds inflicted on the livelihoods of employees and business owners were broadcast daily in the media. Less visible was the political fallout that threatened the rights of countless voters seeking to exercise
... Read more
Audiobook

Chet Gecko, Private Eye, Book 1: The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse

by Bruce Hale ...

Narrated by Jon Cryer ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Chet Gecko, Private Eye
Unabridged

1 hour 15 min

Chet Gecko loves a good mystery. Almost more than he loves his fee: stinkbug pie.So when fellow fourth grader Shirley Chameleon asks him to find her missing brother, Billy, Chet expects the case to be as easy as pie. But Billy's disappearance is part of a larger plot, one that involves the Rat Sisters, a riddling junkyard dog, and a vicious Gila monster named Herman. If Chet doesn't solve the case ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Chet Gecko loves a good mystery. Almost more than he loves his fee: stinkbug pie.So when fellow fourth grader Shirley Chameleon asks him to find her missing brother, Billy, Chet expects the case to be as easy as pie. But Billy's disappearance is part of a larger plot, one that involves the Rat Sisters, a riddling junkyard dog, and a vicious Gila monster named Herman. If Chet doesn't solve the case
... Read more

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