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Leaving No Child and No Adolescent Behind

A Global Perspective on Addressing Inclusion through the SDGs

by Sudeshna Chatterjee, Sudeshna Chatterjee, Thomas Pogge, Alberto Minujin, Katie Hodgkinson, Samantha Cocco-Klein, Tomoo Okubo, Ana Maria Restrepo0, Chirawat Poonsab1, Christina Popivanova2, Nicky Pouw3, Marielle L.J. Le Mat4, Jennifer Seager5, Sarah Baird6, Joan Hamory Hicks7, Sabina Faiz Rashid8, Maheen Sultan9, Workneh Yadete0, Nicola Jones1, Ernest Darkwah2, Marguerite Daniel3, Anna Carolina Machado4, Charlotte Bilo5, Ismael Cid Martinez6, Enrique Delamonica7, Jose Luis Espinoza Delgado8, Aristide Kielem9, Mohamed Obaidy0, Martin Hayes1, Melissa Kelly2, Darcy Strouse3 ...

Series Book 8 - CROP International Poverty Studies
The future of our world over the next decade is being shaped by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that seek to uphold children’s wellbeing and, by their call to leave no one behind and to reach the furthest behind first, shine a spotlight on the world’s most vulnerable populations including children and adolescents living in poverty and exclusion. The transformative steps promised in the ... Read more

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The future of our world over the next decade is being shaped by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that seek to uphold children’s wellbeing and, by their call to leave no one behind and to reach the furthest behind first, shine a spotlight on the world’s most vulnerable populations including children and adolescents living in poverty and exclusion. The transformative steps promised in the
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The Looking-Glass

Essential Stories

by Machado De Assis ...

Translated by Daniel Hahn ...

Series Book 13 - Essential Stories
Enchanting, fresh translations of the finest stories by Brazil’s greatest writer and author of short stories, cited as the greatest black writer in Western literature“Machado de Assis showed the human comedy is the same everywhere, and in conflicts between man and society, society usually wins.” --The New YorkerMachado de Assis is one of the most enigmatic and fascinating story writers who ever ... Read more

$13.99 USD

Enchanting, fresh translations of the finest stories by Brazil’s greatest writer and author of short stories, cited as the greatest black writer in Western literature“Machado de Assis showed the human comedy is the same everywhere, and in conflicts between man and society, society usually wins.” --The New YorkerMachado de Assis is one of the most enigmatic and fascinating story writers who ever
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Handbook of Latinos and Education

Theory, Research, and Practice

Edited by Enrique G. Murillo, Jr, Dolores Delgado Bernal, Socorro Morales, Luis Urrieta, Jr, Eric Ruiz Bybee, Juan Sánchez Muñoz, Victor B. Saenz, Daniel Villanueva, Margarita Machado-Casas, Katherine Espinoza ...

Now in its second edition, this Handbook offers a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship profiling the scope and terrain of academic inquiry on Latinos and education. Presenting the most significant and potentially influential work in the field in terms of its contributions to research, to professional practice, and to the emergence of related interdisciplinary ... Read more

$166.99 USD

Now in its second edition, this Handbook offers a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship profiling the scope and terrain of academic inquiry on Latinos and education. Presenting the most significant and potentially influential work in the field in terms of its contributions to research, to professional practice, and to the emergence of related interdisciplinary
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Shelf Life of Happiness, The

by David Machado ...

Narrated by Luke Daniels ...

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7 hours 37 min

Ripped apart by Portugal’s financial crisis, Daniel’s family is struggling to adjust to circumstances beyond their control. His wife and children move out to live with family hours away, but Daniel believes against all odds that he will find a job and everything will return to normal.Even as he loses his home, suffers severe damage to his car, and finds himself living in his old, abandoned office ... Read more

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Ripped apart by Portugal’s financial crisis, Daniel’s family is struggling to adjust to circumstances beyond their control. His wife and children move out to live with family hours away, but Daniel believes against all odds that he will find a job and everything will return to normal.Even as he loses his home, suffers severe damage to his car, and finds himself living in his old, abandoned office
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The Light in Their Eyes

Creating Multicultural Learning Communities: Tenth Anniversary Edition

by Sonia Nieto ...

Series series Multicultural Education Series
In this 10th Anniversary Edition of her popular text, Sonia Nieto reviews where we have been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning communities in our schools. With a new Introductory Chapter and a new Epilogue, Nieto addresses some of the changes we have experienced during the past decade that help explain the current sociopolitical environment—our ... Read more

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In this 10th Anniversary Edition of her popular text, Sonia Nieto reviews where we have been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning communities in our schools. With a new Introductory Chapter and a new Epilogue, Nieto addresses some of the changes we have experienced during the past decade that help explain the current sociopolitical environment—our
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Skin Color and Identity Formation

Perception of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth

by Edward Fergus ...

Series series Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in relation to how they perceive others situate them based on skin color. ... Read more

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The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in relation to how they perceive others situate them based on skin color.
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Chicanas and Chicanos in Contemporary Society

by Gilbert R. Cadena, Janie Filoteo, Elizabeth Flores, Lara Medina, Robert P. Moreno, Maria C. Morales, Gilda L. Ochoa, Eric Romero, Rogelio Saenz, Armando Trujillo, Elsa O. Valdez, Raul H. Villa ...

This book deals with a broad range of social issues facing Mexican-origin people in the United States. The studies presented in this volume are brought together by two main themes: (1) social inequalities-cultural, educational, and economic-endured by the Chicano/Mexicano community in the United States and (2) the community's efforts to eradicate the source of those inequalities.The second edition ... Read more

$33.19 USD

This book deals with a broad range of social issues facing Mexican-origin people in the United States. The studies presented in this volume are brought together by two main themes: (1) social inequalities-cultural, educational, and economic-endured by the Chicano/Mexicano community in the United States and (2) the community's efforts to eradicate the source of those inequalities.The second edition
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Funds of Knowledge

Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms

Edited by Norma Gonzalez, Luis C. Moll, Cathy Amanti ...

The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions.Drawing from both ... Read more

$70.99 USD

The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions.Drawing from both
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The Kids Are in Charge

Activism and Power in Peru's Movement of Working Children

by Jessica K. Taft ...

Series Book 2 - Critical Perspectives on Youth
Details the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movementsSince 1976, the Peruvian movement of working children has fought to redefine age-based roles in society, including defending children’s right to work. In The Kids Are in Charge, Jessica K. Taft gives us an inside look at this groundbreaking, intergenerational social movement, showing that kids can—and should ... Read more

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Details the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movementsSince 1976, the Peruvian movement of working children has fought to redefine age-based roles in society, including defending children’s right to work. In The Kids Are in Charge, Jessica K. Taft gives us an inside look at this groundbreaking, intergenerational social movement, showing that kids can—and should
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Latinos in American Society

Families and Communities in Transition

by Ruth Enid Zambrana ...

It is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of low educational attainment, high residential segregation, and low visibility in the national political landscape. In Latinos in American Society, Ruth Enid Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in the United States to demonstrate how national origin, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and ... Read more

$28.49 USD

It is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of low educational attainment, high residential segregation, and low visibility in the national political landscape. In Latinos in American Society, Ruth Enid Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in the United States to demonstrate how national origin, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and
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Cuba’s Academic Advantage

Why Students in Cuba Do Better in School

by Martin Carnoy ...

In this book, Martin Carnoy explores the surprising success of the Cuban educational system, where the average elementary school student learns much more than her Latin American peers. In developing the case for Cuba's supportive social context and centralized management of education, Carnoy asks important questions about educational systems in general. How responsible should government be for ... Read more

$20.49 USD

In this book, Martin Carnoy explores the surprising success of the Cuban educational system, where the average elementary school student learns much more than her Latin American peers. In developing the case for Cuba's supportive social context and centralized management of education, Carnoy asks important questions about educational systems in general. How responsible should government be for
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Race Migrations

Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race

by Wendy Roth ...

In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United States, Wendy D. Roth explores the influence of migration on changing cultural conceptions of race—for the newcomers, for their host society, and for those who remain in the countries left behind. Just as migrants can gain new language proficiencies, they can pick up new understandings of race. But adopting an ... Read more

$22.99 USD

In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United States, Wendy D. Roth explores the influence of migration on changing cultural conceptions of race—for the newcomers, for their host society, and for those who remain in the countries left behind. Just as migrants can gain new language proficiencies, they can pick up new understandings of race. But adopting an
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