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Teaching to Change the World

Teaching to Change the World

Jeannie Oakes

This is an up-to-the-moment, engaging, multicultural introduction to education and teaching and the challenges and opportunities they present.
Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice

Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice

Jeannie Oakes

But their schools, typically, are overcrowded, ill equipped, and shamefully under-staffed. This work offers a radical approach to school reform that stresses grassroots public activism.
Supplement to The Stegall family of Pontotoc County, ...

Supplement to The Stegall family of Pontotoc County, ...

Charline Roye Henderson

AMY OAKES (MYERS) 1. Moses 2. Thomas 3. Jeremiah Green, Sr. 4. James Morrison (Jim) 5. Margaret Clementine 6. Amy Oakes Amy Oakes b. 21 Apr. 1887 Pontotoc Co., MS; d. 15 July 1974 (died in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico)  ...
The Children's Culture Reader

The Children's Culture Reader

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Philip A. Cusick, Inside High School (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973 ). 3. An observation from Robert Dreeban, On What Is Learned in School ( Reading, Mass.: Addison, Wesley, 1968). 4. See Jeannie Oakes, Keeping Track: How ...
Teaching to Change the World

Teaching to Change the World

Jeannie Oakes

Jane Margolis, Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race and Computing ( Boston: MIT Press, 2008). 42. Amanda Lenhardt and Mary Madden, Teen Content Creators and Consumers (Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project, ...
The Ruling Race

The Ruling Race

James Oakes

Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section.
Slavery And Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South

Slavery And Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South

James Oakes

James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, slaveholders and non-slaveholders, and for the rise of a racist ideology.
American Composer Zenobia Powell Perry: Race and Gender in ...

American Composer Zenobia Powell Perry: Race and Gender in ...

Jeannie Gayle Pool

Race and Gender in the 20th Century Jeannie Gayle Pool ... Composers, Trinity School, New York, jointly sponsored by International League ofWomen Composers and First National Congress on Women in Music, Jeannie G. Pool, director.
The Oakes Diaries: Business, Politics and the Family in Bury ...

The Oakes Diaries: Business, Politics and the Family in Bury ...

James Oakes

This is the first volume in a two-volume edition of a document of some importance in the economic and social history of Georgian England, and an important contribution to English textile history.
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham ...

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham ...

James Oakes

James Oakes has written a masterful narrative history, bringing two iconic figures to life and shedding new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America.
Peggy Gilbert & Her All-Girl Band

Peggy Gilbert & Her All-Girl Band

Jeannie Gayle Pool

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pool, Jeannie G. Peggy Gilbert & her all-girl band / jeannie Gayle Pool. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 235) ...
Beyond Pug's Tour: National and Ethnic Stereotyping in ...

Beyond Pug's Tour: National and Ethnic Stereotyping in ...

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Oakes, Penelope J. and John C. Turner, "Authors' Rejoinder to Jahoda and Tetlock", British Journal of Social Psychology, 25 (1986). Oakes, Penelope J., " The Salience of Social Categories", in Rediscovering the Social Group, eds John C.
Jeannie Robertson: Emergent Singer, Transformative Voice

Jeannie Robertson: Emergent Singer, Transformative Voice

James Porter

Combining biography, folklore, oral history, and ethnomusicology, this book explores the life and repertoire of the Scottish traditional singer Jeannie Robertson (1908-1975) - an artist whom Alan Lomax hailed as "a monumental figure in ...
The Baby Truce

The Baby Truce

Jeannie Watt

Reggie Tremont has always had clear goals.
The Horseman's Secret

The Horseman's Secret

Jeannie Watt

Life was supposed to be less complicated here… But it's not working out that way for Regan Flynn.
Undercover Cook

Undercover Cook

Jeannie Watt

Detective Nick Duncan will do anything to crack his latest case.
A Cowboy's Redemption

A Cowboy's Redemption

Jeannie Watt

The more he gets to know the intrusive Kira Jennings, the more Jason Ross grudgingly falls for her.
Crossing Nevada

Crossing Nevada

Jeannie Watt

After the attack that ended her modeling career, Tess O'Neil wants only to feel safe.
Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes?

Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes?

James Leasor

James Leasor cleverly reconstructs events surrounding a brutal and unusual murder.
Always a Temp

Always a Temp

Jeannie Watt

Callie's back—and that spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E Is Callie McCarran serious?
Witchtown

Witchtown

Cory Putman Oakes

Enter the gates of Witchtown to find a mischievous coming-of-age story for fans of Alice Hoffman's Practical Magic and the Danielle Paige’s Dorothy Must Die series.

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