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Is God Necessary? NO! and YES!
Notable American Unitarians 1936-1961
Hartshorne: A New World View
The Harvard Square Book
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Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project
Robert P. Moses , with Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
Named one of the eight Notable Books in Education of 2001 by the American School Board Journal.
Bob Moses is a legendary civil rights activist and founder of the acclaimed Algebra Project, founded on the belief that math-science literacy is a prerequisite for full citizenship, a crucial stepping stone to college math and opportunity. Telling the story of this remarkable program, Radical Equations provided a model for anyone looking for a community-based solution to the problems of our disadvantaged schools.
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School: The Story of American Public Education
Sarah Mondale & Sarah Patton; editors
Based on the PBS documentary, this timely history of America's public schools journeys through history and across the nation. School features over 125 historic photographs and essays by esteemed historians of education David Tyack, Carl Kaestle, Diane Ravitch, James Anderson, and Larry Cuban.
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The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract
Theodore R. Sizer & Nancy Faust Sizer
In this groundbreaking book, Theodore and Nancy Sizer insist that students learn not just from their classes but from their school's routines and rituals, especially about matters of character. They convince us once again of what we may have forgotten: that we need to create schools that constantly demonstrate a belief in their students.
"In the age of Columbine, [the Sizers] may offer a path out the deep sense of adolescent alienation that we are only beginning to recognize."
-James Traub, The New York Times Book Review
Theodore Sizer has been dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, headmaster of Phillips Academy, and University Professor Emeritus at Brown University. Nancy Sizer spent twenty-five years as a classroom teacher in public and private secondary schools and, since the school opened in 1995, has supervised Harvard interns at the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School in Massachusetts, where the Sizers most recently served as acting co-principals.
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Waging Peace in Our Schools
Linda Lantieri & Janet Patti
From the most successful conflict resolution program in the country the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program—here is a powerful, practical guide for teaching young people to mediate, negotiate, and create peace.
"A convincing argument that public education should nurture not only the minds but the hearts of the children."
—Creative Classroom
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Widening the Circle: The Power of Inclusive Classrooms
Mara Sapon-Shevin
A passionate call for teachers and citizens to change the way we think about disabilities in our schools. Widening the Circle is a passionate, even radical argument for creating school and classroom environments where all kids, including children labeled as "disabled" and "special needs," are welcome on equal terms.
Mara Sapon-Shevin is a professor of education at Syracuse University and the author of Because We Can Change the World.
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Will Standards Save Public Education?
Deborah Meier
Foreword by Jonathan Kozol
“The fate of public education today depends on whether we listen to the Deborah Meiers of the land.” –Joseph Featherstone, The Nation
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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender Studies
A More Perfect Union: Why Straight American Must Stand Up for Gay Rights
Richard D. Mohr
"A straightforward primer on a topic that desperately needs [Mohr's] thoughtful treatment...This book will encourage gays, enlighten nongays, and inform everyone."
—Library Journal
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Come Out and Win: Organizing Yourself, Your Community, and Your World
Sue Hyde
Come Out and Win will educate, engage, and agitate LGBT and straight activists to become involved in the political movement to win full equality under the law and sexual/gender freedom.
A longtime LGBT activist and organizer, Sue Hyde has worked with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) for over twenty years. As director of NGLTF's Creating Change conference, Hyde has trained thousands of queer activists. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her wife and two children.
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Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America's First Legal Same-Sex Marriages
Patricia A. Gozemba and Karen Kahn
The inspiring story of America's only successful battle for gay marriage "the court cases, the protests, and finally, the weddings!"
On November 18, 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted equal marriage benefits to same-sex couples. The decision provoked a searing public debate over the meaning of marriage and family, civil rights, and the role of religion in law and society. But the experiment went forward nonetheless: thousands of Massachusetts gays and lesbians married and remarkably, the sky did not fall.A former professor of English and Women's Studies, Patricia A. Gozemba is the coauthor of Pockets of Hope: How Students and Teachers Change the World. The former editor of Sojourner: The Women's Forum, Karen Kahn also edited Frontline Feminism: Essays from Sojourner's First Twenty Years. Gozemba and Kahn got married in September 2005; they live in Salem, Massachusetts.
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Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir
Kevin Jennings
A powerful memoir about growing up in trailer parks, coming out at Harvard, and fighting for justice in our schools. Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son is that rare memoir that is both a riveting personal story and an inside account of a critical chapter in our recent history. Creating safe schools for all youth is now a central part of the progressive agenda in American education and Kevin Jennings is at the forefront of that fight.
Kevin Jennings is the founder and executive director of GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, a national education organization working to make schools places where young people learn to value and respect everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. He lives in New York with his partner, Jeff Davis.
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