Educating The Other America
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Author |
: Susan B. Neuman |
Publisher |
: Brookes Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106019839189 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Educating the Other America by : Susan B. Neuman
"Breaking the cycle of poverty by improving education and literacy: that's the ultimate goal of this trailblazing book from top experts. Educating the Other America brings together more than 30 of the biggest names in education to tackle the challenges faced by children who live below the poverty line - and offer fresh, cutting-edge ideas for closing the achievement gap." "Representing the most creative thinking from the best minds in education, this groundbreaking resource illuminates the challenges of poverty and gives professionals the knowledge they need to help students succeed - both in school and for the rest of their lives."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: Michael Harrington |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 1997-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780684826783 |
ISBN-13 |
: 068482678X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Other America by : Michael Harrington
Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.
Author |
: Stefanie DeLuca |
Publisher |
: Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2016-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610448581 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610448588 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Coming of Age in the Other America by : Stefanie DeLuca
Recent research on inequality and poverty has shown that those born into low-income families, especially African Americans, still have difficulty entering the middle class, in part because of the disadvantages they experience living in more dangerous neighborhoods, going to inferior public schools, and persistent racial inequality. Coming of Age in the Other America shows that despite overwhelming odds, some disadvantaged urban youth do achieve upward mobility. Drawing from ten years of fieldwork with parents and children who resided in Baltimore public housing, sociologists Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin highlight the remarkable resiliency of some of the youth who hailed from the nation’s poorest neighborhoods and show how the right public policies might help break the cycle of disadvantage. Coming of Age in the Other America illuminates the profound effects of neighborhoods on impoverished families. The authors conducted in-depth interviews and fieldwork with 150 young adults, and found that those who had been able to move to better neighborhoods—either as part of the Moving to Opportunity program or by other means—achieved much higher rates of high school completion and college enrollment than their parents. About half the youth surveyed reported being motivated by an “identity project”—or a strong passion such as music, art, or a dream job—to finish school and build a career. Yet the authors also found troubling evidence that some of the most promising young adults often fell short of their goals and remained mired in poverty. Factors such as neighborhood violence and family trauma put these youth on expedited paths to adulthood, forcing them to shorten or end their schooling and find jobs much earlier than their middle-class counterparts. Weak labor markets and subpar postsecondary educational institutions, including exploitative for-profit trade schools and under-funded community colleges, saddle some young adults with debt and trap them in low-wage jobs. A third of the youth surveyed—particularly those who had not developed identity projects—were neither employed nor in school. To address these barriers to success, the authors recommend initiatives that help transform poor neighborhoods and provide institutional support for the identity projects that motivate youth to stay in school. They propose increased regulation of for-profit schools and increased college resources for low-income high school students. Coming of Age in the Other America presents a sensitive, nuanced account of how a generation of ambitious but underprivileged young Baltimoreans has struggled to succeed. It both challenges long-held myths about inner-city youth and shows how the process of “social reproduction”—where children end up stuck in the same place as their parents—is far from inevitable.
Author |
: Sylvie Laurent |
Publisher |
: University of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 382 |
Release |
: 2019-01-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520288577 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520288572 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis King and the Other America by : Sylvie Laurent
Shortly before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. called for a radical redistribution of economic and political power to transform the whole of society. In 1967, he envisioned and designed the Poor People’s Campaign, an interracial effort that was carried out after his death. This campaign brought together impoverished Americans of all races to demand better wages, better jobs, better homes, and better education. King and the Other America explores this overlooked and obscured episode of the late civil rights movement, deepening our understanding of King’s commitment to social justice and also of the long-term trajectory of the civil rights movement. Digging into earlier radical arguments about economic inequality across America, which King drew on throughout his entire political and religious life, Sylvie Laurent argues that the Poor People’s Campaign was the logical culmination of King’s influences and ideas, which have had lasting impact on young activists and the public. Fifty years later, growing inequality and grinding poverty in the United States have spurred new efforts to rejuvenate the campaign. This book draws the connections between King's perceptive thoughts on substantive justice and the ongoing quest for equality for all.
Author |
: Laila Lalami |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2019-03-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781524747152 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1524747157 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Other Americans by : Laila Lalami
***2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST*** Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction Finalist for the California Book Award Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize A Los Angeles Times bestseller Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dallas Morning News, The Guardian, Variety, and Kirkus Reviews Late one spring night in California, Driss Guerraoui—father, husband, business owner, Moroccan immigrant—is hit and killed by a speeding car. The aftermath of his death brings together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer returning to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; her mother, Maryam, who still pines for her life in the old country; Efraín, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, an old friend of Nora’s and an Iraqi War veteran; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son’s secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and the murdered man himself. As the characters—deeply divided by race, religion, and class—tell their stories, each in their own voice, connections among them emerge. Driss’s family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love—messy and unpredictable—is born. Timely, riveting, and unforgettable, The Other Americans is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
Author |
: Harris Beider |
Publisher |
: Policy Press |
Total Pages |
: 142 |
Release |
: 2020-07-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781447337058 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1447337050 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Other America by : Harris Beider
Widely stereotyped as anti-immigrant, against civil-rights or supporters of Trump and the right, can the white working class of America really be reduced to a singular group with similar views? Based on extensive interviews across five cities at a crucial point in US history, this significant book showcases what the white working class think about many of the defining issues of the age - from race, identity and change to the crucial on-the-ground debates occurring at the time of the 2016 US election. As the 2020 presidential elections draw near, this is an invaluable insight into the complex views on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and the extent and reach they have to engage in cross-racial connections.
Author |
: Sasha Abramsky |
Publisher |
: Nation Books |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2013-09-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781568587264 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1568587260 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Way of Poverty by : Sasha Abramsky
Abramsky shows how poverty - a massive political scandal - is dramatically changing in the wake of the Great Recession.
Author |
: Heather Andrea Williams |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2009-11-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807888971 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807888974 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Self-Taught by : Heather Andrea Williams
In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught traces the historical antecedents to freedpeople's intense desire to become literate and demonstrates how the visions of enslaved African Americans emerged into plans and action once slavery ended. Enslaved people, Williams contends, placed great value in the practical power of literacy, whether it was to enable them to read the Bible for themselves or to keep informed of the abolition movement and later the progress of the Civil War. Some slaves devised creative and subversive means to acquire literacy, and when slavery ended, they became the first teachers of other freedpeople. Soon overwhelmed by the demands for education, they called on northern missionaries to come to their aid. Williams argues that by teaching, building schools, supporting teachers, resisting violence, and claiming education as a civil right, African Americans transformed the face of education in the South to the great benefit of both black and white southerners.
Author |
: Casey D. Cobb |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 231 |
Release |
: 2021-09-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798216134046 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Public and Private Education in America by : Casey D. Cobb
This title will give students and other readers a clear understanding of the true state of public and private education systems in the United States by refuting falsehoods, misunderstandings, and exaggerations—and confirming the validity of other assertions. This work is part of a series that uses evidence-based documentation to examine the veracity of claims and beliefs about high-profile issues in American culture and politics. Each book in the Contemporary Debates series is intended to puncture rather than perpetuate myths that diminish our understanding of important policies and positions; to provide needed context for misleading statements and claims; and to confirm the factual accuracy of other assertions. This particular volume examines beliefs, claims, and myths about public and private K–12 education in the United States. Issues covered include categories of public and private schools and variations in academic performance and socioeconomic status therein; controversies surrounding school choice, including school vouchers and charter schools; accountability and assessment of private and public schools; debates about school environment, safety, and curricula; and teacher and administrator quality. All of these issues are examined in individualized entries, with objective responses grounded in up-to-date evidence.
Author |
: Adam Laats |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2015-02-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674416710 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674416716 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Other School Reformers by : Adam Laats
The idea that American education has been steered by progressivism is accepted as fact by liberals and conservatives alike. Adam Laats shows that this belief is wrong. Calling to center stage conservatives who shaped America’s classrooms, he shows that in the long march of American public education, progressive reform has been a beleaguered dream.