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No matter how mathematics achievement and persistence are measured,
African Americans seem to lag behind their peers. This state of
affairs is typically explained in terms of student ability, family
background, differential treatment by teachers, and biased
curricula. But what can explain disproportionately poor performance
and persistence of African-American students who clearly possess
the ability to do well, who come from varied family and
socioeconomic backgrounds, who are taught by caring and concerned
teachers, and who learn mathematics in the context of a
reform-oriented mathematics curriculum? And, why do some
African-American students succeed in mathematics when
underachievement is the norm among their fellow students? Danny
Martin addresses these questions in "Mathematics Success and
Failure Among African-American Youth," the results of a year-long
ethnographic and observational study of African-American students
and their parents and teachers.
"Mathematics Success and Failure Among African-American Youth"
goes beyond the conventional explanations of ability, socioeconomic
status, differential treatment, and biased curricula to consider
the effects of history, community, and peers--and the individual
agency that allows some students to succeed despite these
influences. Martin's analysis suggests that prior studies of
mathematics achievement and persistence among African Americans
have failed to link sociohistorical, community, school, and
intrapersonal forces in sufficiently meaningful ways, and that they
suffer from theoretical and methodological limitations that hinder
the ability of mathematics educators to reverse the negative
achievement and persistence trends that continue to afflict
African-American students.
The analyses and findings offered in Martin's book lead to
exciting implications for future research and intervention efforts
concerning African-American students--and other students for whom
history and context play an important role. This book will be
useful and informative to many groups: mathematics education
researchers, education researchers interested in the social context
of learning and teaching, policymakers, preservice and in-service
teachers, students, parents, and community advocates. It will also
be of interest to readers concerned with multicultural education,
cross-cultural studies of mathematics learning, sociology of
education, Black Studies, and issues of underrepresentation in
science and mathematics.
For more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have
wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek
rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem). In Athens
and Jersusalem, Lev Shestov—an inspiration for the French
existentialists and the foremost interlocutor of Edmund Husserl,
Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber during the interwar
years—makes the gripping confrontation between these symbolic
poles of ancient wisdom his philosophical testament, an
argumentative and stylistic tour de force. Although the
Russian-born Shestov is little known in the Anglophone world today,
his writings influenced many twentieth-century European thinkers,
such as Albert Camus, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Czesław
Miłosz, and Joseph Brodsky. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov’s
final, groundbreaking work on the philosophy of religion from an
existential perspective. This new, annotated edition of Bernard
Martin’s classic translation adds references to the cited works
as well as glosses of passages from the original Greek, Latin,
German, and French. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov at his most
profound and most eloquent and is the clearest expression of his
thought that shaped the evolution of continental philosophy and
European literature in the twentieth century.
No matter how mathematics achievement and persistence are measured,
African Americans seem to lag behind their peers. This state of
affairs is typically explained in terms of student ability, family
background, differential treatment by teachers, and biased
curricula. But what can explain disproportionately poor performance
and persistence of African-American students who clearly possess
the ability to do well, who come from varied family and
socioeconomic backgrounds, who are taught by caring and concerned
teachers, and who learn mathematics in the context of a
reform-oriented mathematics curriculum? And, why do some
African-American students succeed in mathematics when
underachievement is the norm among their fellow students? Danny
Martin addresses these questions in Mathematics Success and Failure
Among African-American Youth, the results of a year-long
ethnographic and observational study of African-American students
and their parents and teachers. Mathematics Success and Failure
Among African-American Youth goes beyond the conventional
explanations of ability, socioeconomic status, differential
treatment, and biased curricula to consider the effects of history,
community, and peers--and the individual agency that allows some
students to succeed despite these influences. Martin's analysis
suggests that prior studies of mathematics achievement and
persistence among African Americans have failed to link
sociohistorical, community, school, and intrapersonal forces in
sufficiently meaningful ways, and that they suffer from theoretical
and methodological limitations that hinder the ability of
mathematics educators to reverse the negative achievement and
persistence trends that continue to afflict African-American
students. The analyses and findings offered in Martin's book lead
to exciting implications for future research and intervention
efforts concerning African-American students--and other students
for whom history and context play an important role. This book will
be useful and informative to many groups: mathematics education
researchers, education researchers interested in the social context
of learning and teaching, policymakers, preservice and in-service
teachers, students, parents, and community advocates. It will also
be of interest to readers concerned with multicultural education,
cross-cultural studies of mathematics learning, sociology of
education, Black Studies, and issues of underrepresentation in
science and mathematics.
With issues of equity at the forefront of mathematics education
research and policy, Mathematics Teaching, Learning, and Liberation
in the Lives of Black Children fills the need for authoritative,
rigorous scholarship that sheds light on the ways that young black
learners experience mathematics in schools and their communities.
This timely collection significantly extends the knowledge base on
mathematics teaching, learning, participation, and policy for black
children and it provides new framings of relevant issues that
researchers can use in future work. More importantly, this book
helps move the field beyond analyses that continue to focus on and
normalize failure by giving primacy to the stories that black
learners tell about themselves and to the voices of mathematics
educators whose work has demonstrated a commitment to the success
of these children.
Imagine growing up in small Indiana towns in the 1940s in a very
strict religious family and then realizing at the age of six that
there was something sexually "wrong" with you. You had no name for
it, and you didn't really understand it, but you knew it all the
same. By the time you were seven and eight years old, you heard
adults talk about sexual perversion and teenagers using the terms
"faggot" or "queer" as if they were describing the plague. But you
knew deep inside it was you they were talking about Then skip
forward a few years when you felt compelled to find someone else
like you. You knew you couldn't be the only one, and you didn't
think you could survive on erotic dreams or daydreaming. And so you
began to sexually experiment with older men who called themselves
queer, but you knew it didn't describe you. Then, at age seventeen,
you found yourself in your first small gay bar, where you finally
discovered you weren't the only one like you on this planet But
when your mother discovered you'd been invited to a gay party, she
told you that you would burn in hell if you didn't become
heterosexual. And that was just the beginning. Following My Path is
the true account of the author discovering who he was and all the
things that happened along the way. Some of the things are serious,
and some are funny, but all are interesting and vital to
understanding what many gay people have had to endure. Reading
Following My Path may: * change your mind about whether being gay
is a choice or not; * make you see gay people differently and with
more understanding, particularly those who are older and in the
closet longer; * teach you to love your children unconditionally,
even if there are parts of them you can't understand or accept; *
teach you not to lay guilt trips on your children; and * teach gay
LGBT people not to leave God out of their lives, as we, too, are
made in his image, and he wants us to lead happy and fulfilling
lives. Following My Path is the author's confirmation in his belief
in God and his comfort with being an "outed," gay Christian.
Imagine growing up in small Indiana towns in the 1940s in a very
strict religious family and then realizing at the age of six that
there was something sexually "wrong" with you. You had no name for
it, and you didn't really understand it, but you knew it all the
same. By the time you were seven and eight years old, you heard
adults talk about sexual perversion and teenagers using the terms
"faggot" or "queer" as if they were describing the plague. But you
knew deep inside it was you they were talking about Then skip
forward a few years when you felt compelled to find someone else
like you. You knew you couldn't be the only one, and you didn't
think you could survive on erotic dreams or daydreaming. And so you
began to sexually experiment with older men who called themselves
queer, but you knew it didn't describe you. Then, at age seventeen,
you found yourself in your first small gay bar, where you finally
discovered you weren't the only one like you on this planet But
when your mother discovered you'd been invited to a gay party, she
told you that you would burn in hell if you didn't become
heterosexual. And that was just the beginning. Following My Path is
the true account of the author discovering who he was and all the
things that happened along the way. Some of the things are serious,
and some are funny, but all are interesting and vital to
understanding what many gay people have had to endure. Reading
Following My Path may: * change your mind about whether being gay
is a choice or not; * make you see gay people differently and with
more understanding, particularly those who are older and in the
closet longer; * teach you to love your children unconditionally,
even if there are parts of them you can't understand or accept; *
teach you not to lay guilt trips on your children; and * teach gay
LGBT people not to leave God out of their lives, as we, too, are
made in his image, and he wants us to lead happy and fulfilling
lives. Following My Path is the author's confirmation in his belief
in God and his comfort with being an "outed," gay Christian.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for
quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the
digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books
may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have
elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
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occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
The life of a Chinese national hero. Many of the earliest books,
particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now
extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are
republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality,
modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for
quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the
digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books
may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have
elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
The life of a Chinese national hero. Many of the earliest books,
particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now
extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are
republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality,
modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This volume contains lectures given at the Saint-Flour Summer
School of Probability Theory during the period 10th - 26th July,
1995. These lectures are at a postgraduate research level. They are
works of reference in their domain.
For more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have
wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek
rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem). In Athens
and Jersusalem, Lev Shestov—an inspiration for the French
existentialists and the foremost interlocutor of Edmund Husserl,
Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber during the interwar
years—makes the gripping confrontation between these symbolic
poles of ancient wisdom his philosophical testament, an
argumentative and stylistic tour de force. Although the
Russian-born Shestov is little known in the Anglophone world today,
his writings influenced many twentieth-century European thinkers,
such as Albert Camus, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Czesław
Miłosz, and Joseph Brodsky. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov’s
final, groundbreaking work on the philosophy of religion from an
existential perspective. This new, annotated edition of Bernard
Martin’s classic translation adds references to the cited works
as well as glosses of passages from the original Greek, Latin,
German, and French. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov at his most
profound and most eloquent and is the clearest expression of his
thought that shaped the evolution of continental philosophy and
European literature in the twentieth century.
With issues of equity at the forefront of mathematics education
research and policy, Mathematics Teaching, Learning, and Liberation
in the Lives of Black Children fills the need for authoritative,
rigorous scholarship that sheds light on the ways that young black
learners experience mathematics in schools and their communities.
This timely collection significantly extends the knowledge base on
mathematics teaching, learning, participation, and policy for black
children and it provides new framings of relevant issues that
researchers can use in future work. More importantly, this book
helps move the field beyond analyses that continue to focus on and
normalize failure by giving primacy to the stories that black
learners tell about themselves and to the voices of mathematics
educators whose work has demonstrated a commitment to the success
of these children.
Award-winning dance film which explores the use of point technique
using extended intertwining solos, complex partnering sequences and
extreme speed to generate powerful performances with unexpected
moments of tender emotion and serenity. Edouard Lock uses intricate
choreography for both camera and dancers, creating constantly
shifting points of view. The original score, written by David Lang
for violin, cello, piano and voice, combines evocative minimalism
with lyrics from five of Lou Reed's most famous works, created in
the 60s for the Velvet Underground.
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