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At the heart of this inquiry into the ethical implications of education reform on reading practices in middle and secondary classrooms, the central question is what is lost, hidden, or marginalized in the name of progress? Drawing on her own experiences as an English teacher during the No Child Left Behind era, the author examines school cultures focused on meeting standards and measurable outcomes. She shows how genocide literature illuminates the ethics of reading and helps teachers and students rethink how literature should be taught in this modern, globalized era and the purposes of education more broadly.

At the heart of this inquiry into the ethical implications of education reform on reading practices in middle and secondary classrooms, the central question is what is lost, hidden, or marginalized in the name of progress? Drawing on her own experiences as an English teacher during the No Child Left Behind era, the author examines school cultures focused on meeting standards and measurable outcomes. She shows how genocide literature illuminates the ethics of reading and helps teachers and students rethink how literature should be taught in this modern, globalized era and the purposes of education more broadly.

Una nueva guia ayuda a los profesionales y estudiantes de

negocios latinoamericanos a expresarse claramente en ingles.

"Ingles para Negocios: Guia de Referencia Gramatical" es una de las

primeras publicaciones orientadas al mundo de los negocios que

suministra ejemplos claros y directos sobre el uso apropiado del Ingles en las diferentes situaciones de negocios.

Este libro cubre, en espanol, topicos fundamentales tales como los diferentes tiempos verbales y de modo, asi como aspectos gramaticales que frecuentemente causan problemas para los que no son nativos del idioma ingles, tales como clausulas adverbiales, condicionales, gerundios, infinitivos, preposiciones y frases verbales. Todo con ejemplos vinculados al mundo de los negocios. Tambien cuenta con un util diccionario, el cual incluye verbos regulares e irregulares,

sustantivos y adjetivos, de uso comun en el lenguaje utilizado en los negocios, con una clara y precisa definicion en espanol.

Para Margarita Martin, profesional de KPMG, una de las cuatro grandes firmas de contabilidad del mundo, "Ingles Para Negocios" provee una asistencia valiosa en su rol de negocios internacional. "Sin duda, los hispanohablantes necesitan esta Guia, tiene las respuestas que necesitamos con ejemplos del mundo de los negocios]

Muchos hispanohablantes tienen dificultad con la complejidad del idioma ingles, especialmente en el uso apropiado de los tiempos de los verbos. Algunos ejemplos del uso de los tiempos de los verbos en un contexto de negocios son:

-Tiempo pasado: "I invested $3,000 last week."

-Tiempo presente: "I work in banking."

-Tiempo futuro: "I will increase our sales quota for the next year."