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This important book provides African American parents with the
knowledge to diversify K-12 school choices beyond traditional
neighborhood public schools in order to optimize the educational
chances of their own children, and it will help educators and
policymakers to close the black-white academic achievement gap
throughout America. Closing the K-12 achievement gap is critical to
the future welfare of African American individuals, families, and
communities-and to the future of our nation as a whole. The
black-white academic achievement gap-the significant statistical
difference in academic performance between African American
students and their white peers-is the single greatest impediment to
achieving racial equality and social justice in America. Black
Educational Choice provides parents, citizens, educators, and
policymakers the critical knowledge they need to leverage the
national trend toward increasing and diversifying K-12 school
choice beyond traditional neighborhood public schools. Parents can
use this information to optimize the success of their own African
American children, while policymakers and educators can apply these
insights to help close the black-white academic achievement gap
throughout America. The book collects the interdisciplinary,
multi-racial, and multi-ethnic perspectives of education experts to
address the questions of millions of anxious African American
families: "Would sending our children to a private school or a
charter school significantly better their chances of closing the
achievement gap and becoming successful individuals? And if so,
what kinds of challenges would they likely experience in these
alternative educational settings?" Contributions from distinguished
scholars and their apprentices from education and other diverse
fields in the social and behavioral sciences
Author Erika C. Stevenson was just six years old when, after
World War II, soldiers expelled more than three million Sudeten
Germans from their ancestral homes in the Sudetenlands of
Czechoslovakia. In Fighting for Road Apples, she tells the story of
how she was indelibly marked for life as a refugee.
In this memoir, she discusses her experiences in bomb shelters;
with ethnic cleansing; of enduring a cruel separation from her
mother; and of being contained in a stinking boxcar for livestock,
condemned for expulsion from her homeland in Bohemia. Intertwined
with her family's heritage-marked by misfortunes and struggles of
survival-she narrates the stories of the turbulent,
blighted-by-poverty postwar years in Germany.
Stevenson describes blithe anecdotes of teen adventures and of
falling in love with a foreign student who harbored a few secrets.
She also recounts her father's compelling escape from a British POW
camp after D-Day and his later incarceration in a notorious Czech
concentration camp.
A story of challenges and triumphs, "Fighting for Road Apples"
narrates the true story of what ordinary people endured during an
extraordinary time.
When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be
disrupted irrevocably. When those children are underrepresented
minorities, the potential for disruption is even greater. The
Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy
examines issues that arise when minority children's lives are
directly or indirectly influenced by law and public policy.
Uniquely comprehensive in scope, this trailblazing volume offers
cutting-edge chapters on the intersections of race/ethnicity within
the context of child maltreatment, child dependency court, custody
and adoption, familial incarceration, school discipline and the
"school-to-prison pipeline," juvenile justice, police/youth
interactions, and jurors' perceptions of child and adolescent
victims and defendants. The book also includes chapters focused on
troubling situations that are less commonly researched, but growing
in importance, including the role of race and racism in child sex
trafficking and US immigration law and policy. Thus, individual
chapters explore myriad ways in which law and policy shape the
lives of marginalized children and adolescents - racial and ethnic
minorities - who historically and presently are at heightened risk
for experiencing disadvantageous consequences of law and policy. In
so doing, The Legacy of Racism for Children can help social
scientists to understand and work to prevent the perpetuation of
racial discrimination in American laws and public policies.
This volume presents unique, "culturally relevant" interventions
that can teach coping skills to African American boys with a
history of aggression. Stevenson provides the history and current
events for readers to understand why these youths perceive violence
as the only way to react. Interventions and preventative actions
developed in the PLAAY project (Preventing Long-Term Anger and
Aggression) are presented. These include teaching coping skills and
anger management via athletics such as basketball and martial arts.
Frustrations and strengths in those athletics illuminate the
players' emotional lives, and serve as a basis for
self-understanding and life skill development. This book also
examines such issues as: How parents can be empowered to help their
aggressive children What cultural socialization is and why it is
necessary to help African American boys Why novel, "non-White"
approaches are needed to empower positive growth in these children
and teenagers How boys who are seriously aggressive are
misunderstood as criminal, adult, or pathological.
The lentil is one of the first foods to have been cultivated and
has maintained excellent socio-economic value for over 8,000 years.
The ancient crop is now a crop for modern times in both developing
and developed countries today.
The international market in recent years has increased
significantly and this crop is gaining an important place in
cropping systems under different ecologies. It is grown in over 35
countries, has a broad range of uses around the world, and the
different seed and plant types adapted to an increasingly wide
range of ecologies makes this comprehensive volume even more
important today.
This book covers all aspects of diversity, breeding and
production technologies, and the contents include;
- Origin, adaptation, ecology and diversity
- Utilization, nutrition and production technologies.
- Genetic enhancement, mutation and wild relatives
- Breeding methods and lensomics achievements
- Productivity, profitability and world trade.
This book presents the most comprehensive and up to date review
of research on lentil production systems, biotic and abiotic
stresses management, quality seed production, storage techniques
and lentil growing around the world. This book will be of great
value to legume breeders, scientists, nutritionists, academic
researchers, graduate students, farmers, traders and consumers in
the developed and the developing world.
The Third edition of this successful Atlas of Osteoporosis is
designed to provide a wide range of physicians with a pictorial
guide to this important disease. The illustrations are an excellent
teaching resource and the text provides a concise overview to
osteoporosis. For the first time, text and illustrations are fully
integrated. The book contains details of skeletal biology and the
pathophysiology of osteoporosis, with a series of diagrammatic and
SEM illustrations. There is greater emphasis on clinical factors in
this edition, particularly in areas such as nutrition, exercise,
and growth. There are also important sections on diagnosis using
bone densitometry and the laboratory evaluation of bone disorders.
The lentil was one of the first foods ever to have been
cultivated. This book presents the most comprehensive and
up-to-date review of research on lentil production, biotic and
abiotic stress management, quality seed production, storage
techniques and lentil growing around the world. This book will be
of great value to legume breeders, scientists, nutritionists,
academic researchers, graduate students, farmers, traders and
consumers in the developed and the developing world.
On Saturday morning, February 2, 2002, 7-year-old Danielle van Dam
was reported missing by her mother, Brenda, who had been out
partying with friends at a local bar until almost 2:00 a.m.
Danielle's father, Damon, had been left behind at home to babysit
their three young children, and their dog, a sleek gray Weimaraner.
He said that he had put the kids to bed, cracked their doors, and
fell asleep in the master bedroom, along with the dog, and with the
door closed. Shortly before 2 a.m., he opened the bedroom door, and
let the dog out to greet his wife, knowing she would be home soon.
Some people, like KFMB talk show host Rick Roberts, began to
question the parents' behavior, after it was reported in the media
that they were "swingers," and they did not check on their
children, even after they said they found two outside doors open
that night. Danielle's body was discovered at Dehesa on February
27. The police had almost immediately suspected neighbor David
Westerfield, as he went away that weekend, leaving his garden hose
lying untidily across his neat front yard. Was he responsible for
Danielle van Dam's death, or was he the victim of a "rush to
judgement"? What does the evidence say? No evidence was found that
he was ever in her home, nor that he had been at the body recovery
site. Why were no fibers from her pajamas or bedding found in his
house or vehicles? Had she ever played in his motor home while it
was parked in their street? Did his pornography collection include
child porn? Did he fail his lie detector test? What is the truth
about the plea deal story? Was the body rapidly mummified by a warm
dry wind that hadn't yet begun to blow? What happened to the
photographs the searchers took of the body? Did the orange fiber in
her hair come from something in her own home? Whose hair was found
under her body? It was neither Danielle's nor Westerfield's. On
February 15, Brenda received an anonymous phone call that Danielle
was abused but alive. Who made that call? The insect evidence
indicates she died soon afterwards. A year later, James Selby, a
convicted serial rapist, confessed in writing to killing Danielle.
Was he just a "quack"? One of his victims was a 9-year-old girl,
whom he abducted sleeping from her bed. This book examines these
questions and many more. This was a high-profile case, with an
enormous amount of public attention; the trial was broadcast live
on radio and TV, so a book on it is long overdue, and this is an
authoritative book. There are books with titles like "MS-DOS Bible"
and "Windows 7 Bible." This book is the Westerfield-van Dam case
"bible." It is a comprehensive reference source about the case, and
a "must read" for everybody interested in it, and especially all
those who were personally involved: the jurors, the police, the
crime laboratory, the DA's office, the defense lawyers, the
neighbors and other witnesses. This case has similarities to the OJ
Simpson case, not only in the intensity of public and media
attention, but also in the fact that George "Woody" Clarke was a
prosecutor on both cases, and Jo-Ellan Dimitrius was a jury
consultant on both, but for the defense in the OJ trial, and for
the prosecution in the Westerfield trial. Did clever juror
selection contribute to a miscarriage of justice in either case?
David Westerfield's automatic appeal is due soon, making this book
timely.
Author Erika C. Stevenson was just six years old when, after
World War II, soldiers expelled more than three million Sudeten
Germans from their ancestral homes in the Sudetenlands of
Czechoslovakia. In Fighting for Road Apples, she tells the story of
how she was indelibly marked for life as a refugee.
In this memoir, she discusses her experiences in bomb shelters;
with ethnic cleansing; of enduring a cruel separation from her
mother; and of being contained in a stinking boxcar for livestock,
condemned for expulsion from her homeland in Bohemia. Intertwined
with her family's heritage-marked by misfortunes and struggles of
survival-she narrates the stories of the turbulent,
blighted-by-poverty postwar years in Germany.
Stevenson describes blithe anecdotes of teen adventures and of
falling in love with a foreign student who harbored a few secrets.
She also recounts her father's compelling escape from a British POW
camp after D-Day and his later incarceration in a notorious Czech
concentration camp.
A story of challenges and triumphs, "Fighting for Road Apples"
narrates the true story of what ordinary people endured during an
extraordinary time.
Yolanda Stevenson is one of the premiere poets in the San Francisco
Bay area. Using a seductive voice quality, song, and interpretive
dance she has been hailed as a powerful and inspirational
performance artist. Born in Oakland, California, Yolanda has always
been involved in the arts. A natural performer, Yolanda also graced
many stages with her poetry, acting, and dancing talents. As a
young adult Ms. Stevenson performed with Move Dance Theater,
Imhotep Dance Ensemble and The Pamm Drake Dancers. As a poetess she
performed with The Punany Poets, Dwayne Wiggins of Tony Toni Tone,
Secrecy and Caustic Records. As an actress she was featured in
"America the Beautiful" as Myiesha, "The Photograph" by Ntozake
Shange, as Michael, and in the highly successful Bay Area
production "Brother Dap" where she sang, danced, and played two
different characters. As "I thank God for my talents and the
talents of the people I have studied with," says Yolanda. First on
her list of training is her brother Woodrow Thompson who starred in
the original role of Richie in the internationally famous "A Chorus
Line." My brother taught me a lot; she says. "He was my main
motivation to cultivate my talents to the fullest." Yolanda has
also studied African dance with Linda Johnson, Jazz dance with
Bonny Sita and Pamm Drake, and Hip Hop with Traci Bartlow.
Yolanda's acting training has been with the Berkeley Black
Repertory Theater and The Black Actors Workshop in Atlanta,
Georgia. Currently, Yolanda is an integral member of the
International Toastmasters Association, where she's engaging in
public speaking and seminars, in addition, she is a current member
of The International Black Writers Association, where she performed
her poetry regularly in educational workshops for the Bay Area
youth. She is also working on a recording career as a songstress,
poet and Inspirational Speaker. Yolanda also has her sights set on
the film industry where her interests are, producing a television
show, developing a youth performance group and a publishing company
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