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  Ableism in Education -...

  Gillian Parekh

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  How we organize children by ability in schools is often rooted in ableism. 
   
   
   
  Ability is so central to schooling—where we explicitly and continuously shape, assess, measure, and report on students' abilities—that ability-based decisions often appear logical and natural. However, how schools respond to ability results in very real, lifelong social and economic consequences. Special education and academic streaming (or tracking) are two of the most prominent ability-based strategies public schools use to organize student learning. Both have had a long and complicated relationship with gender, race, and class. 
   
   
   
  In this down-to-earth guide, Dr. Gillian Parekh unpacks the realities of how ability and disability play out within schooling, including insights from students, teachers, and administrators about the barriers faced by students on the basis of ability. From the challenges with ability testing to gifted programs to the disability rights movement, Parekh shows how ableism is inextricably linked to other forms of bias. Her book is a powerful tool for educators committed to justice-seeking practices in schools.

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  The Color of Life - A Journey...

  Cara Meredith, James Meredith

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  In this spiritual memoir, a white woman in an interracial marriage and mixed-race family paints a beautiful path from white privilege toward racial healing, from ignorance toward seeing the image of God in everyone she meets. 
  Author and speaker Cara Meredith grew up in a colorless world. From childhood, she didn't think issues of race had anything to do with her, and she was ignorant of many of the racial realities (including individual and systemic racism) in America today. A colorblind rhetoric had been stamped across her education, world view, and Christian theology. 
  Then as an adult, Cara's life took on new, colorful hues. She realized that white people in her generation, seeking to move beyond ancestral racism, had swung so far in believing a colorblind rhetoric that they tried to act as if they didn't see race at all. 
  When Cara met and fell in love with the son of black icon, James Meredith, the power of love helped her see color. She began to notice the shades of life already present in the world around her, while also learning to listen in new ways to black voices of the past. After she married and their little family grew to include two mixed-race sons, Cara knew she would never see the world through a colorless lens again.  
  Cara Meredith's journey will serve as an invitation into conversations of justice, race, and privilege, asking key questions, such as:What does it mean to navigate ongoing and desperately needed conversations of race and justice?What does it mean for white people to listen and learn from the realities our black and brown brothers and sisters face every day?What does it mean to teach the next generation a theology of justice, reconciliation, and love?What does it mean to dig into the stories of our past, both historically and theologically, to see the imago Dei in everyone?  
  Plus, Cara offers an extensive Notes and Recommended Reading section at the end of the book, so you can continue learning, listening, and engaging in this important conversation.

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  The Crazy Brilliant...

  Liam Ben Blackmore

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  Is Ted Nugent an absolute genius or batsh!t crazy?  
  Imagine a spectrum where on one side is pure genius, and the other side is utter lunacy. Where would you place Ted Nugent on this genius-lunatic spectrum?  
  In this book, the guitar legend and conservative activist explores:  
  * Violent crime, gun violence, recidivism, and prisons. 
  * The right to bear arms. 
  * The spoiled brats of Hollywood. 
  * Systemic racism in America. 
  * Censorship by Big Tech. 
  * The First Amendment. 
  * The January 6 capitol attack. 
  * The gender control of government, media, and academia.  
  * Turning over Roe V Wade abortion ruling. 
  * Democrats, Marxists, and communists. 
  * Gun control.  
  * Mass shootings at schools.  
  * The toxic hypocrisy of liberals.  
  * Donald Trump.  
  * Joe Biden.  
  * MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.  
  * Dr. Anthony Fauci. 
  * Kyle Rittenhouse. 
  Is Ted Nugent crazy, brilliant, or both? Read this book, and figure it out!

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  Planes Flying over a Monster -...

  Daniel Saldaña París

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  From one of Mexico's most exciting young writers, a cosmopolitan and candid essay collection exploring life in cities across the world and reflecting on the transformative importance of literature in understanding ourselves 
   
   
   
  In ten intimate essays, Daniel Saldaña París explores the cities he has lived in, each one home to a new iteration of himself. In Mexico City he's a young poet eager to prove himself. In Montreal—an opioid addict desperate for relief. In Madrid—a lonely student seeking pleasure in grotesque extremes. These now diverging, now coalescing selves raise questions: Where can we find authenticity? How do we construct the stories that define us? What if our formative memories are closer to fiction than truth? 
   
   
   
  Saldaña París turns to literature and film, poetry and philosophy for answers. The result is a hybrid of memoir and criticism, "a sensory work, full of soundscapes, filth, planes, closed spaces, open vastness" (El País).

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  Poems to Enjoy Book 1 - An...

  Verner Bickley

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  The main readers of Poems to Enjoy Book 1 are a husband and wife couple, experienced educationists & readers with a life-long love for literature and performance. In tandem with his professional international career as educationist and cultural diplomat, Dr Verner Bickley, MBE, PhD, MA(London), BA(Hons), DipEd (Cardiff), LRAM, LGSM, FIL, FRSA, has played major theatrical roles, acted in films starring Jackie Chan, Leon Lai and Jet Li, regularly appeared in radio and TV series, done BBC continuity and documentary voice-over. He has traveled frequently to judge public-speaking competitions and regularly adjudicated verse- and prose-speaking and reading, drama and choral speaking. He is Chairman Emeritus of the English-Speaking Union (HK). Dr Gillian Bickley, PhD (Leeds), M.Litt, BA (Hons), CertEd (Brist), FRSA, has had a career mainly as an academic, with university positions in different countries, teaching Literature in English. She is a published poet and writer, regularly sharing her work with the public, and has considerable experience in adjudicating and examining oral performance. Together, Gillian and Verner are Co-Founders of the International Proverse Prizes for unpublished writing submitted in English. Some of the varied poems to enjoy, chosen by Verner Bickley, are world-famous. The very young can thoroughly enjoy Poems to Enjoy Book 1. Adults can renew and extend their own youthful enjoyment, finding long-familiar and also new poems. Younger and older can enjoy sharing these poems together, in ways suggested by their grouping as Poems to Speak and Poems to Act and Dance. Also useful for school and homeschooling particularly when paired with Ebook or paperback editions of Poems to Enjoy Book 1.

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  Caller The - Part 1 - "You were...

  Jocy Gayheart

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  In my line of work my phone is ringing constantly. It's my most important business tool, and so I don't spend much thought about when or where to answer it - it's a natural reflex. So when one day, I was out early to prepare a house for a potentially interested couple, I got a call from an undisclosed number, I wasn't very surprised by it; it happens all the time. 
  "Hi," said a female voice on the other end of the line. "So, where were we?" 
  "Hi," I replied, pausing for a moment to think who it might be that called. Did I forget an appointment? Was there a conversation that got interrupted? 
  Before I could say anything else, the voice continued: "Ah right. You were going to tell me how wet you are."

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