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  Educated Out - How Rural...

  Mara Casey Tieken

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  Through the stories of nine rural, first-generation students and their families, Educated Out shows how geography shapes college opportunities, from admission to postgraduation options. A former third-grade teacher in rural Tennessee, education researcher Mara Casey Tieken watched as her former students graduated high school. She was shocked at how few were heading to college—and none were going to elite four-year schools. These students were representative of a larger national phenomenon: In 2021, 31 percent of rural adults aged twenty-five and older held a postsecondary degree, compared to 45 percent of urban adults, and rural students are especially unlikely to pursue degrees from private, selective schools. Why, Tieken wondered? And what happens to the handful of rural students who do attend elite colleges, colleges that may feel worlds away from home?
   
  
  In addition to advocating for a higher education landscape that truly includes rural students, Tieken critiques a system that requires people to leave their rural homes in search of opportunities. Our current economy depends on inexpensive rural labor. Without meaningful change, some students will have to make the impossible decision to leave home—and far more will remain there, undereducated and overlooked.  Both engaging and accessible, Educated Out presents important and timely questions about rurality, identity, education, and inequality.

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  Ownership - Reinventing...

  John Case, Corey Rosen

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  Winner of the William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize from the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing 
   
  Employee ownership creates stronger companies, helps workers build wealth, and fosters a fairer, more stable society. In this book, two leading experts show how it works-and how it can be greatly expanded. 
   
   
  Why are wages stagnant and wealth inequality increasing? One factor has inexplicably been left out: who owns the companies that drive the economy. Ownership gives people a claim to the fruits of free enterprise. Employee ownership gives workers-the people who have a stake in the company-a fair chance to benefit from their labors. 
   
  In three simple parts, Corey Rosen and John Case create a powerful argument for why employee ownership is the answer to capitalism's crisis and how to implement it: 
   
  1.	What's wrong with what we have-The authors explain why companies usually end up being sold off to investors and the often-horrific consequences that result for workers, communities, and the environment. 
  2.	How can we change things?-This section shows how overlooking ownership limits attempts to reform capitalism and why employee ownership is a realistic and practical way to save capitalism from its own excesses. 
  3.	Reinventing capitalism for the 21st century-This section describes how employee ownership has been done, is being done, and can be expanded and gives examples of companies of all sizes and sectors.

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  Coming to Terms With One’s...

  Ruth Walshe

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  "Though, to some extent, the psychological and the Buddhist way of looking at the shadow is similar, the Buddhist way of seeing, rather than investigating, is far deeper and more penetrating. For if you wash your dirty linen yourself instead of sending it to the laundry, you yourself discover the stains. But unlike with the washing, there is no need to scrub them, it is just the act of seeing which cleanses them. 
   
  In order to explain the shadow, we must first turn the spotlight onto the discrimination of good and bad which starts off our suffering, followed by craving— the second Noble Truth—which in its turn is brought about by our erroneous I-am-I consciousness. I want!—I don’t want! I want the good!—I don’t want the bad! This is outward-bound but exactly the same applies to our emotions too."

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  NumBots Scrapheap Stories - A...

  Tor Caldwell

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  The biggest race in the scrapheap is taking place and Unicorn wants to do the best she can... but with strong competition, she needs to find a way to prepare... 
  
  At Maths Circle, our core purpose is to make children feel confident with maths. 
  
  Unicorn and the Big Race is a story that shows the importance of practising little and often. By improving skills with small amounts of regular practice, children's confidence in their own ability increases.
  
  We've created these audio stories and accompanying activities, all centred around the theme of growth mindset and resilience, to inspire confidence not just in maths, but in all areas of development. You can access the activities in the Downloads section on the NumBots website.
  
  NumBots is an award-winning maths learning platform that helps children achieve the 'triple win' of understanding, recall and fluency in mental addition and subtraction.

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  Menachem Begin: A short...

  5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies,...

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  Menachem Begin, Israelite statesman: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

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  Your Brain's Not Broken Workbook...

  Tamara Rosier

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  Lose the shame, love your brain, and live better with ADHD 
   
  In her popular book Your Brain's Not Broken, Dr. Tamara Rosier applied her years of coaching others to explain how ADHD affects every aspect of your life so that you could understand why you think, feel, and act the way you do. The result? A book chock-full of practical tools with the power to dramatically improve your life. 
   
  Now this interactive companion workbook helps you personalize all those tools to fit your particular challenges. Designed specifically to work with the way your amazing brain is wired, the workbook includes  
   
  ● guided reflections of each chapter's content 
  ● space to write out your ADHD story 
  ● questions and exercises to apply the information from the book 
  ● prompts to help you work through problems 
  ● visual summaries of key concepts, including the Solve-It Grid 
   
  The minute you start using this practical workbook, you are one step closer to losing the shame, loving your brain, and living better with ADHD.

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