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Terry Husband

"Recent national achievement data reveal significant outcome disparities between African American boys and other student groups by grade 4. This issue has drawn much attention from teachers, parents, researchers, and policy makers all across the United States of America. African American boys are not homogeneous in nature. Consequently, Read and Succeed: Practices to Support Reading Skills in African American Boys begins by identifying a host of potential factors that contribute to reading disengagement and under-achievement in African American boys in P-5 contexts. This book presents and discusses a multi-strategic framework for teachers, administrators, librarians, and parents to implement collaboratively to combat this issue. Read and Succeed additionally provides valuable and practical resources for teachers, administrators, and other school officials to use to increase reading engagement and achievement in African American boys."-- Provided by publisher.

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A.D. Edwards and D.P.G. Westgate

The first edition of this book in 1987 quickly achieved wide recognition as a major text on classroom studies and classroom language. In this fully revised and extended second edition, Tony Edwards and David Westgate draw on a wide range of classroom studies to show why recording and analysing the talk of teachers and students has been so prominent in the investigation of educational processes. Their emphasis is on methods of recording, analysing and interpreting talk as evidence and on what researchers - particularly teacher researchers - need to know to use those methods with a clear sense of their limits and possibilities. In this new edition all research evidence and bibliographic material has been revised and updated. The book will continue to be an important text for a new generation of students and researchers in language and linguistics, social science and education studies.

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Elizabeth L. MacNabb ... [et al

"Transforming the Disciplines is one of the first women's studies books to show feminist scholarship as an active force, changing the way we study such diverse fields as architecture, bioethics, history, mathematics, religion, and sports studies. Its clear, jargon-free prose makes feminist thought accessible without sacrificing the revolutionary power of its ideas. In almost thirty essays, Transforming the Disciplines exemplifies the changes achieved by feminist thought."--BOOK JACKET.

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Kathy Howell and Alisa Webb

"This resource presents each letter of the alphabet as a mini-unit designed to give children practice with fundamental language, math, science, social studies, writing, and thinking skills"--P. 3