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Kid Quixotes \ Los Kid Quixotes de Brooklyn (Spanish edition): La historia de un grupo de estudiantes, su maestro y la escuela en la que todo es posible
by Stephen Haff«Cervantes estaría orgulloso de que su novela de hace 400 años esté ayudando a estos extraordinarios chicos y su maestro a comprender sus vidas». —SALMAN RUSHDIE«En todos mis años de escritora y profesora universitaria no he visto nunca nada igual». —VALERIA LUISELLI «Haff retrata lo que la educación en Estados Unidos podría, y quizá debería, ser». —ANDREW SOLOMON«Todo el mundo debería leer este libro». —CRISTINA HENRÍQUEZ Los Kid Quixotes de Brooklyn cuenta la historia de un pequeño local de Nueva York donde, todas las tardes, un maestro se reune con un grupo de chicos de entre cinco y quince años para leer y escribir en inglés y español, a salvo de las preocupaciones de las familias inmigrantes en una época de declarada hostilidad. Tras superar una crisis personal, Stephen Haff, creó este espacio dedicado a la empatía y la colaboración en el que todos, adultos y niños, cumplen con reverencia una única regla: escucharse los unos a los otros. Este sencillo acto de generosidad produce efectos asombrosos. En estas páginas descubrimos cómo Stephen y sus estudiantes trabajan en grupo para traducir Don Quijote del inglés y convertirlo en una obra musical que acabarán representando en ayuntamientos, embajadas y universidades. La atención reverencial que han aprendido a prestarse unos a otros los ha impulsado a superar todo tipo de dificultades y transmitir un mensaje de solidaridad y resistencia lleno de esperanza y optimismo. Stephen Haff es el fundador de Still Waters in a Storm. Fue maestro de Lengua y Literatura en Bushwick High durante más de diez años. Obtuvo una maestría en teatro en la Universidad de Yale y ha dirigido obras e impartido clases en Nueva York, Vermont y Canadá. Asimismo, ha escrito para The Village Voice, American Theater y otras publicaciones.
Kid Quixotes: A Group of Students, Their Teacher, and the One-Room School Where Everything Is Possible
by Stephen HaffLa inesperada e inspiradora historia real de un salón de clases donde los hijos de inmigrantes indocumentados y sus maestros encuentran su voz y enfrentan el clima político actual con su herramienta más poderosa: su verdad. Still Waters in a Storm («Agua calmada en medio de la tormenta») es un programa extracurricular fundado por Stephen Haff en el 2010 en Bushwick, Brooklyn. Haff, un antiguo maestro de escuela pública, se reúne con veinte estudiantes entre las edades de 5-17 seis veces a la semana para analizar los clásicos, como El paraíso perdido de John Milton, tocar el violín, escribir música y estudiar el latín. Para ellos es un refugio en medio de sus tormentosas vidas. Para los estudiantes, que viven con el miedo constante de ser deportados, Still Waters es una comunidad segura que estimula sus voces. Para Haff representa el santuario por el cual luchó para crear después de haber regresado a Brooklyn a enseñar tras una crisis causada por una depresión bipolar. Haff, quien se inspiró en sus propias experiencias teatrales y pedagógicas con la esperanza de proveerle a los niños una válvula de escape que no existía en el mundo de escuelas públicas que abandonó, desarrolló su nuevo método pedagógico basándose en las terapias de Alcohólicos Anónimos, los rezos de los cuáqueros, la sicoterapia, y hasta en las enseñanzas budistas para así crear un ambiente empático y colaborativo. En este liviano y acogedor espacio, Stephen y sus estudiantes encuentran consuelo y algo más: sus voces. Todos se pusieron de acuerdo: en Still Waters habría solo una regla, todos se escuchan los unos a los otros. Y esta regla ha desatado su increíble potencial. En el 2016, un estudiate de Still Waters aceptó un nuevo desafío: con la ayuda de varios diccionarios, y el visto bueno de la aclamada traductora cervantina, Edith Grossman, traducirían capítulos del clásico Don Quijote de la Mancha del inglés al español. Han tomado la esencia de la historia, aquella de un soñador que no se rinde, y lo transforman para poder contar la historia de sus padres inmigrantes. Para hablar sobre su comunidad, los niños han ido un paso más allá y han adaptado sus traducciones a un errante musical moderno, Las aventuras errantes del niño Quijote, la cual han presentado a lo largo del este de los Estados Unidos. La estrella de Los pequeños quijotes de Brooklyn es Sarah Sierra, de seis años. Antes de Still Waters, Sarah era callada, pero ahora que tiene tantas historias que contar, como la travesía de su madre a través del desierto hacia América en un tigre, o la historia de una niña-caballero que derrota a los gigantes de hielo que encierran a los niños. Sarah no es la única con una historia singular: Talia antes lloraba en la escuela porque no sabía leer, pero ahora sueña con ser una escritora y una adolescente llamada Alex conquista su miedo al público al cantar una canción sobre la aceptación de su sexualidad que recibió una gran ovación. Estos estudiantes han encontrado su voz en Still Waters, y la están utilizando para compartir un mensaje sobre la diversidad, la tolerancia, el amor, el optimismo, y la resiliencia que nos es indispensable a todos. Stephen Haff es el fundador de Still Waters in a Storm, un programa extracurricular dirigido hacia la comunidad h Con su contribuidora, Sarah Sierra: Sarah Sierra se unió a Still Waters in a Storm en 2015 a los seis años. Fue uno de los miembros fundadores del grupo musical Los pequeños quijotes de Brooklyn y obtuvo el papel principal en Las aventuras errantes del niño Quijote. Le encanta contar imaginativas historias que convencen al público de que todo es posible si lo intentas.
Kidnap for Ransom: Resolving the Unthinkable
by Richard P. WrightThe enormous sums paid for the release of hostages coupled with law enforcement‘s inability to stem the tide has made kidnapping for ransom a worldwide plague. The increasing rate of reported incidents from every corner of the globe suggests this plague is growing. Kidnap for Ransom: Resolving the Unthinkable removes the veil of mystery and dispels
Kidnappers in Philadelphia: Isaac Hopper's Tales of Oppression, 1780-1843 (Routledge Revivals)
by Daniel E. MeadersFirst published in 1994, Kidnappers in Philadelphia: Isaac Hopper's Tales of Oppression 1780-1843 collates Isaac Hoppers original tales. Complementing the original seventy-nine compiled narratives, this expanded edition features "The Life of Cooper" and seven newly discovered slave narratives published by Isaac Hopper in the National Anti-Slavery Standard between June and September 1840. The original index of planter's names and a new comprehensive general index will help readers locate valuable historical information.
Kidnapping and Abduction: Minimizing the Threat and Lessons in Survival
by Brian John HeardTerrorist groups and organized crime cartels pose an increasing threat of kidnapping throughout many regions in the word. At the same time, international travel has become more commonplace for both business and leisure purposes. Kidnapping and Abduction: Minimizing the Threat and Lessons in Survival provides a practical guide on the precautions tra
Kids Can Help Fight Poverty (Kids Can Help)
by Emily RaijMake the world a better place for people in need! This book is full of ideas and projects readers can put into action to fight poverty.
Kids Can Help Kids (Kids Can Help)
by Emily RaijMake the world a better place for kids! This book is full of ideas and projects readers can put into action to help with racial justice and human rights.
Kids Can Help the Environment (Kids Can Help)
by Emily RaijMake the world a cleaner, healthier place to live! This book is full of ideas and projects readers can put into action to help the environment.
Kids Discover World Geography Grade 6
by Houghton Mifflin HarcourtIf it's about Earth's land, water, air, or living things--particularly people--it's about geography. The word comes from the Greek geo, which means "earth," and graphy, which means "writing or description." Physical geographers study land-forms, water, soil, climate, and the distribution of living things. Human geographers explore the ways people interact with the environment. They may be city or environmental planners, transportation specialists, or market researchers.
Kids Don't Want to Fail: Oppositional Culture and the Black-White Achievement Gap
by Angel L. HarrisUnderstanding the causes of the racial achievement gap in American education—and then addressing it with effective programs—is one of the most urgent problems communities and educators face. For many years, the most popular explanation for the achievement gap has been the “oppositional culture theory”: the idea that black students underperform in secondary schools because of a group culture that devalues learning and sees academic effort as “acting white.” Despite lack of evidence for this belief, classroom teachers accept it, with predictable self-fulfilling results. In a careful quantitative assessment of the oppositional culture hypothesis, Angel L. Harris tested its empirical implications systematically and broadened his analysis to include data from British schools. From every conceivable angle of examination, the oppositional culture theory fell flat. Despite achieving less in school, black students value schooling more than their white counterparts do. Black kids perform badly in high school not because they don’t want to succeed but because they enter without the necessary skills. Harris finds that the achievement gap starts to open up in preadolescence—when cumulating socioeconomic and health disadvantages inhibit skills development and when students start to feel the impact of lowered teacher expectations. Kids Don’t Want to Fail is must reading for teachers, academics, policy makers, and anyone interested in understanding the intersection of race and education.
Kids Gone Wild: From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex
by Joel Best Kathleen A BogleThe myths and truths of teen's sexual behavior.Winner of the 2015 Brian McConnell Book Award presented by the International Society for Contemporary Legend ResearchTo hear mainstream media sources tell it, the sexlives of modern teenagers outpace even the smuttiest of cable television shows.Teen girls “sext” explicit photos to boys they like; they wear “sex bracelets”that signify what sexual activities they have done, or will do; they team upwith other girls at “rainbow parties” to perform sex acts on groups of willingteen boys; they form “pregnancy pacts” with their best girlfriends to allbecome teen mothers at the same time. From The Today Show, to CNN, to the New York Times, stories of these eventshave been featured widely in the media. But are most teenage—oryounger—children really going to sex parties and having multiple sexualencounters in an orgy-like fashion? Researcherssay no—teen sex is actually not rampant and teen pregnancy is at low levels.But why do stories like these find such media traffic, exploiting parents’worst fears? How do these rumors get started, and how do they travel around thecountry and even across the globe?In Kids Gone Wild,best-selling authors Joel Best and Kathleen A. Bogle use these stories aboutthe fears of the growing sexualization of childhood to explore what we knowabout contemporary legends and how both traditional media and the internet perpetuatethese rumors while, at times, debating their authenticity. Best and Bogledescribe the process by which such stories spread, trace how and to where they have moved, and track howthey can morph as they travel from one medium to another. Ultimately, they findthat our society’s view of kids raging out of control has drastic andunforeseen consequences, fueling the debate on sex education and affecting policydecisions on everything from the availability of the morning after pill to whois included on sex offender registries.Asurprising look at the truth behind the sensationalism in our culture, Kids Gone Wild is a much-needed wake-upcall for a society determined to believe the worst about its young people.
Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy (Routledge Revivals)
by Rebecca A. MaynardPublished in 1997. Adolescent mothers are more likely to encounter a variety of economic and social ills than women who delay childbearing until they are adults. This work is a comprehensive examination of the extent to which these undesirable outcomes are attributable to teen pregnancy itself rather than to the wider environment in which most of the pregnancies and the subsequent child-rearing take place. It also examines the consequences of adolescent pregnancy for the fathers of children, and even more importantly, for the children themselves.
Kids Like Me: Voices Of The Immigrant Experience
by Judith M. Blohm Terri LapinskyAs our neighborhoods grow more diverse, a variety of cultures, values and traditions become an important part of our classrooms and schools. In Kids Like Me: Voices of the Immigrant Experience, twenty-six personal narratives celebrate the experiences of young people making new homes in unfamiliar communities - finding common ground as they make new friends, learn different languages and share their unique cultural identities. Kids Like Me personalizes the important themes of cultures and customs, immigration and citizenship and learning to appreciate differences. While written to help youth understand their classmates and friends, Kids Like Me also includes discussion questions, self-directed activities and research ideas for teachers and families that can be used in classrooms, clubs and community settings. Richly illustrated with photos and maps of each home country, the text presents countless opportunities to explore and understand new cultures and new friends.
Kids Like Me: Voices of the Immigrant Experience
by Terri Lapinsky Judith BlohmAs our neighborhoods grow more diverse, a splendid variety of cultures, values and traditions become an important part of our classrooms and schools. In Kids Like Me, 26 personal narratives celebrate the experience of young people making a new home in a strange community—finding common ground as they make new friends, learn English, share their cultural identities, their challenges, successes and dreams. Kids Like Me provides a youthful perspective on the important themes of crossing cultures, immigration and citizenship and learning to appreciate differences. These stories are intended to foster intercultural awareness and sensitivity and encourage individual and community action to assist newcomers in their adjustment. While written to help youth understand their classmates and friends, Kids Like Me also includes discussion questions, self-directed activities and research ideas for teachers and other mentors that can be used in classrooms, youth clubs and community settings. Richly illustrated with photos and maps of each home country, the text presents countless opportunities to explore and understand different cultures and new friends. Young people who have come from all over the world share their stories and invite their new neighbors to see that in so many ways these kids are just like me.
Kids Make History: A New Look At America's Story
by Elspeth Leacock Susan Washburn Buckley Randy JonesFeel what it is like to participate in history as you follow in the footsteps of the young men and women who lived it. You will survive a harsh James Towne winter and battle the Redcoats in a Long Island cornfield; you will carry letters on the Pony Express and plant crops with Laura Ingalls; you will stow away on a whaling ship and help in the defense after the attack on Pearl Harbor. With hundreds of visual and verbal facts, each story in Kids Make History has been thoroughly researched and meticulously illustrated.
Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
by Malcolm HarrisNamed one of Fall 2017's most anticipated books by New York Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Nylon, and LitHubEveryone knows "what's wrong with Millennials." Glenn Beck says we've been ruined by "participation trophies." Simon Sinek says we have low self-esteem. An Australian millionaire says Millennials could all afford homes if we'd just give up avocado toast. Thanks, millionaire. This Millennial is here to prove them all wrong."The best, most comprehensive work of social and economic analysis about our benighted generation." -Tony Tulathimutte, author of Private Citizens"The kind of brilliantly simple idea that instantly clarifies an entire area of culture."-William Deresiewicz, author of Excellent Sheep Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and immature. We've gotten so used to sloppy generational analysis filled with dumb clichés about young people that we've lost sight of what really unites Millennials. Namely: - We are the most educated and hard-working generation in American history. - We poured historic and insane amounts of time and money into preparing ourselves for the 21st century labor market.- We have been taught to consider working for free (homework, internships) a privilege for our own benefit.- We are poorer, more medicated, and more precariously employed than our parents, grandparents, even our great grandparents, with less of a social safety net to boot. Kids These Days, is about why. In brilliant, crackling prose, early Wall Street occupier Malcolm Harris gets mercilessly real about our maligned birth cohort. Examining trends like runaway student debt, the rise of the intern, mass incarceration, social media, and more, Harris gives us a portrait of what it means to be young in America today that will wake you up and piss you off. Millennials were the first generation raised explicitly as investments, Harris argues, and in Kids These Days he dares us to confront and take charge of the consequences now that we are grown up.
Kids and Violence: The Invisible School Experience
by Catherine Dulmus Karen SowersImplement prevention interventions and policies to curb the cycle of violence in our schools!Kids and Violence: The Invisible School Experience examines overt and covert violence occurring in the school setting involving students, school personnel, and school policy, and highlights a level of violence that is often hidden, ignored, or subtly tolerated. This book provides the latest research findings on various issues of violence in our schools. It also shows what happens when the adults responsible for the well-being of our children are actually perpetrating violence, staying silent about violence, or upholding a system that supports a violent atmosphere.Kids and Violence is unique in its holistic and systemic approach of examining types of violence that are often overlooked or endorsed by school policies. The book includes 11 chapters focusing on issues such as bullying, school personnel&’s role in violence, and prevention programs. The contributors are experts in their fields and include professors, deans, and directors of university social work schools. Kids and Violence presents the results of an exploratory study that examines self-identified bullies and addresses issues of immediate and vital importance, including: bullying among students, grades 3-8, in a rural school district observations by school personnel on bullying among elementary and middle school students corporal punishment as a cultural norm in the United States and its impact on discipline in our schools solution-focused crisis intervention with adolescents bullying of children and other abuses of power by school personnel adolescent dating violence in the school setting and much more!It is time to stop the harmful cycle of violence in our schools. This valuable resource serves as a call for immediate action, showing social workers and policymakers how to provide leadership in researching, developing, and delivering empirically-based prevention interventions and policies.
Kids at Work: Latinx Families Selling Food on the Streets of Los Angeles (Latina/o Sociology #7)
by Emir EstradaWinner, 2020 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, given by the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner, 2020 Early-Career Book Award from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher EducationHow Latinx kids and their undocumented parents struggle in the informal street food economy Street food markets have become wildly popular in Los Angeles—and behind the scenes, Latinx children have been instrumental in making these small informal businesses grow. In Kids at Work, Emir Estrada shines a light on the surprising labor of these young workers, providing the first ethnography on the participation of Latinx children in street vending. Drawing on dozens of interviews with children and their undocumented parents, as well as three years spent on the streets shadowing families at work, Estrada brings attention to the unique set of hardships Latinx youth experience in this occupation. She also highlights how these hardships can serve to cement family bonds, develop empathy towards parents, encourage hard work, and support children—and their parents—in their efforts to make a living together in the United States. Kids at Work provides a compassionate, up-close portrait of Latinx children, detailing the complexities and nuances of family relations when children help generate income for the household as they peddle the streets of LA alongside their immigrant parents.
Kids on Strike!
by Susan Campbell BartolettiDescribes the conditions and treatment that drove working children to strike, from the mill workers' strike in 1834 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the children who marched with Mother Jones in 1903.
Kids on YouTube: Technical Identities and Digital Literacies
by Patricia G LangeThe mall is so old school—these days kids are hanging out on YouTube, and depending on whom you ask, they're either forging the digital frontier or frittering away their childhoods in anti-intellectual solipsism. Kids on YouTube cuts through the hype, going behind the scenes to understand kids' everyday engagement with new media. Debunking the stereotype of the self-taught computer whiz, new media scholar and filmmaker Patricia G. Lange describes the collaborative social networks kids use to negotiate identity and develop digital literacy on the 'Tube. Her long-term ethnographic studies also cover peer-based and family-driven video-making dynamics, girl geeks, civic engagement, and representational ethics. This book makes key contributions to new media studies, communication, science and technology studies, digital anthropology, and informal education.
Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin
by Joseph PlasterIn Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States. Tracing the history of the downtown lodging house districts where marginally housed youth regularly lived beginning in the late 1800s, Plaster focuses on San Francisco’s Tenderloin from the 1950s to the present. He draws on archival, ethnographic, oral history, and public humanities research to outline the queer kinship networks, religious practices, performative storytelling, and migratory patterns that allowed these kids to foster social support and mutual aid. He shows how they collectively and creatively managed the social trauma they experienced, in part by building relationships with johns, bartenders, hotel managers, bouncers, and other vice district denizens. By highlighting a politics where the marginal position of street kids is the basis for a moral economy of reciprocity, Plaster excavates a history of queer life that has been overshadowed by major narratives of gay progress and pride.
Kids online: Opportunities and risks for children
by Sonia Livingstone and Leslie HaddonAs the internet and new online technologies are becoming embedded in everyday life, there are increasing questions about their social implications and consequences. Children, young people and their families tend to be at the forefront of new media adoption but they also encounter a range of risky or negative experiences for which they may be unprepared, which are subject to continual change. This book captures the diverse, topical and timely expertise generated by the EU Kids Online project, which brings together 70 researchers in 21 countries across Europe. Each chapter has a distinct pan-European focus resulting in a uniquely comparative approach.
Kids' TV: The First Twenty-Five Years
by Stuart FischerIn a freshly revisited and important text, Stuart Fischer summarizes the golden age of Kids' TV with entries for every important children's television program which aired between 1947 and 1972. It's a nostalgic journey that highlights the programs of imagination and creativity which influenced the baby boom generation and their children, listing important factual information for everything from "Howdy Doody" to "Sealab 2020."
Kids, Cops, and Confessions: Inside the Interrogation Room (Youth, Crime, and Justice #3)
by Barry FeldJuveniles possess less maturity, intelligence, andcompetence than adults, heightening their vulnerability in the justice system.For this reason, states try juveniles in separate courts and use differentsentencing standards than for adults. Yet, when police bring kids in forquestioning, they use the same interrogation tactics they use for adults,including trickery, deception, and lying to elicit confessions or to produceincriminating evidence against the defendants.In Kids, Cops, and Confessions, Barry Feld offers thefirst report of what actually happens when police question juveniles. Drawingon remarkable data, Feld analyzes interrogation tapes and transcripts, policereports, juvenile court filings and sentences, and probation and sentencingreports, describing in rich detail what actually happens in the interrogationroom. Contrasting routine interrogation and false confessions enables police,lawyers, and judges to identify interrogations that require enhanced scrutiny,to adopt policies to protect citizens, and to assure reliability and integrityof the justice system. Feld has produced an invaluable look at how the justicesystem really works.
Kikuyu Women, The Mau Mau Rebellion, And Social Change In Kenya
by Cora Ann PresleyBased on rare oral data from women participants in the "Mau Mau" rebellion, this book chronicles changes in women's domestic reproduction, legal status, and gender roles that took place under colonial rule. The book links labour activism, cultural nationalism, and the more overtly political issues of land alienation, judicial control, and character