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Build learning environments that support Black girls' excellence
and academic achievement. In this thought-provoking and
illuminating book, former educator and social justice advocate
Monique W. Morris addresses the harmful policies, practices,
conditions, and assumptions that too often criminalize Black girls'
behavior and steer them down "school-to-confinement pathways" in
disproportionate numbers. The key to disrupting such punitive
pushout is for educators to develop meaningful relationships with
Black girls-connections that are grounded in cultural understanding
and focused on helping Black girls develop their identities as
valued individuals and contributors to the larger community. Such
relationships, Morris argues, can shift Black girls' schooling from
a punishment-oriented experience to one that is joyful, healing,
and transformative. Along with her own research and experience,
Morris explores the topic through in-depth conversations with three
distinguished educators and clinical practitioners: Venus
Evans-Winters, Janice Johnson Dias, and Kakenya Ntaiya, who provide
insights about the challenges of educating Black girls and
uplifting accounts of success in promoting their excellence and
achievement. These conversations and takeaways for practice are
essential guideposts for any teacher, school leader, and
policymaker committed to creating learning environments that dispel
damaging attitudes and practices and allow Black girls to flourish.
A groundbreaking and visionary call to action on educating and
supporting girls of color, from the highly acclaimed author of
Pushout "Monique Morris is a personal shero of mine and a respected
expert in this space." -Ayanna Pressley, U.S. congresswoman and the
first woman of color elected to Boston's city council Wise Black
women have known for centuries that the blues have been a platform
for truth-telling, an underground musical railroad to survival, and
an essential form of resistance, healing, and learning. In this
"powerful call to action" (Rethinking Schools), leading advocate
Monique W. Morris invokes the spirit of the blues to articulate a
radically healing and empowering pedagogy for Black and Brown
girls. Morris describes with candor and love what it looks like to
meet the complex needs of girls on the margins. Sing a Rhythm,
Dance a Blues is a "vital, generous, and sensitively reasoned
argument for how we might transform American schools to better
educate Black and Brown girls" (San Francisco Chronicle). Morris
brings together research and real life in this chorus of
interviews, case studies, and the testimonies of remarkable people
who work successfully with girls of color. The result is this
radiant guide to moving away from punishment, trauma, and
discrimination toward safety, justice, and genuine community in our
schools.
In this book Michael Morris presents a detailed study of the
prehistoric landscape in three regions of Crete. He examines the
development, stability, and physio-chemical composition of selected
soils near three archaeological sites: Karphi, a Late Minoan IIIC
"Refuge Site"; Chrysokamino, a Final Neolithic to Late Minoan IIIB
Farmhouse; Vronda and Kastro near Kavousi, two Late Minoan IIIC to
Geometric Sites. Morris offers conclusions on the history of the
Cretan landscape and its formation processes, and how those
processes contribute to our understanding of the human use of the
landscape. The book will interest anyone involved with the
archaeology of Minoan Crete, as well as those who study the
pedological history of other regions.
The story that could not be written till now
I have been collecting this informatin for more than twenty
years. I was personally acquainted with many of the outlaws who
nested in the dives along the Tennessee-Mississippi border, and I
crossed paths with them while I was doing research for Buford
Pusser's authorized biography, "The Twelfth of August." Pusser
fought the state-line criminals during his entire six-year reign as
sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee.
During the state-line wars, Pusser created a larger-than-life
image. But while walking tall, he often walked outside the law.
Members of the state-line mob were bold and colorful. They lived
hard and fast. Most of them died the same way. ―W. R. Morris
Wise Black women have known for centuries that the blues have been
a platform for truth-telling, an underground musical railroad to
survival, and an essential form of resistance, healing, and
learning. In her highly anticipated follow-up to the widely
acclaimed Pushout, now a core text for teachers and principals on
the criminalisation of Black girls in schools, leading advocate
Monique W. Morris invokes the spirit of the blues to articulate a
radically healing and empowering pedagogy for Black and Brown
girls.
This is the first book in the Selecta, the collected works of Benoit Mandelbrot. This volume incorporates his original contributions to finance. The chapters consist of much new material prepared for this volume, as well as reprints of his classic papers which are devoted to the roles that discontinuity and related forms of concentration play in finance and economics. Much of this work helps to lay a foundation for evaluating risks in trading strategies.
Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was
expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and
teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was
being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested
and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to
attend school. Just 16 percent of female students, Black girls make
up more than one-third of all girls with a school-related arrest.
The first trade book to tell these untold stories, Pushout exposes
a world of confined potential and supports the growing movement to
address the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push
countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and
often unsafe futures. For four years Monique W. Morris, author of
Black Stats, chronicled the experiences of black girls across the
country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged—by
teachers, administrators, and the justice system—and degraded by
the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. Morris
shows how, despite obstacles, stigmas, stereotypes, and despair,
black girls still find ways to breathe remarkable dignity into
their lives in classrooms, juvenile facilities, and beyond.
The “powerful” (Michelle Alexander) exploration—featured by The Atlantic, Essence, the Washington Post, New York magazine, NPR, and others—of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting Black girls in schools.
In a work that Lisa Delpit calls “imperative reading,” Monique W. Morris (Black Stats, Too Beautiful for Words) chronicles the experiences of Black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged—by teachers, administrators, and the justice system—and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. Called “compelling” and “thought-provoking” by Kirkus Reviews, Pushout exposes a world of confined potential and supports the rising movement to challenge the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures.
Called a book “for everyone who cares about children” by the Washington Post, Morris’s illumination of these critical issues is “timely and important” (Booklist) at a moment when Black girls are the fastest growing population in the juvenile justice system. Praised by voices as wide-ranging as Gloria Steinem and Roland Martin, and highlighted for the audiences of Elle and Jet right alongside those of EdWeek and the Leonard Lopate Show, Pushout is a book that “will stay with you long after you turn the final page” (Bookish).
Mandelbrot is world famous for his creation of the new
mathematics of fractal geometry. Yet few people know that his
original field of applied research was in econometrics and
financial models, applying ideas of scaling and self-similarity to
arrays of data generated by financial analyses. This book brings
together his original papers as well as many original chapters
specifically written for this book.
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Amid the widespread spin and skewed analysis that is commonplace to
media and politics alike, the need for less filtered information
and more raw facts is more pressing than ever. 'Black Stats', a
compact and useful guide, skips over the assumptions, suppositions
and hypotheses about trends and patterns in American society and
offers up-to-date figures on black life in the United States today.
Goal-Directed Decision Making: Computations and Neural Circuits
examines the role of goal-directed choice. It begins with an
examination of the computations performed by associated circuits,
but then moves on to in-depth examinations on how goal-directed
learning interacts with other forms of choice and response
selection. This is the only book that embraces the
multidisciplinary nature of this area of decision-making,
integrating our knowledge of goal-directed decision-making from
basic, computational, clinical, and ethology research into a single
resource that is invaluable for neuroscientists, psychologists and
computer scientists alike. The book presents discussions on the
broader field of decision-making and how it has expanded to
incorporate ideas related to flexible behaviors, such as cognitive
control, economic choice, and Bayesian inference, as well as the
influences that motivation, context and cues have on behavior and
decision-making.
Unmasking Masculinities: Men and Society is a new anthology that
provides a fresh and comprehensive introduction to the field of
critical masculinity studies. Grounded in the theories of
masculinities with explicit connections between various theoretical
perspectives and the readings, this book examines unique domains,
such as the Presidency or men's responses to feminism. Through the
book's emphasis on cross-cultural perspectives and experiences,
readers will find new and provocative takes on masculinity today,
such as nerd masculinity, female masculinity, misogyny through
social media, feminism and men, and men's intimate relationships
with other men.
An avalanche of recent newspapers, weekly newsmagazines, scholarly
journals, and academic books has helped to spark a heated debate by
publishing warnings of a "boy crisis" in which male students at all
academic levels have begun falling behind their female peers. In
Learning the Hard Way, Edward W. Morris explores and analyzes
detailed ethnographic data on this purported gender gap between
boys and girls in educational achievement at two low-income high
schools-one rural and predominantly white, the other urban and
mostly African American. Crucial questions arose from his study of
gender at these two schools. Why did boys tend to show less
interest in and more defiance toward school? Why did girls
significantly outperform boys at both schools? Why did people at
the schools still describe boys as especially "smart"? Morris
examines these questions and, in the process, illuminates
connections of gender to race, class, and place. This book is not
simply about the educational troubles of boys, but the troubled and
complex experience of gender in school. It reveals how particular
race, class, and geographical experiences shape masculinity and
femininity in ways that affect academic performance. His findings
add a new perspective to the "gender gap" in achievement.
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