Stuck in the Shallow End, updated edition
Title | Stuck in the Shallow End, updated edition PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Margolis |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Total Pages | 245 |
Release | 2017-03-03 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0262533464 |
Why so few African American and Latino/a students study computer science: updated edition of a book that reveals the dynamics of inequality in American schools. The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately low. And relatively few African American and Latino/a high school students receive the kind of institutional encouragement, educational opportunities, and preparation needed for them to choose computer science as a field of study and profession. In Stuck in the Shallow End, Jane Margolis and coauthors look at the daily experiences of students and teachers in three Los Angeles public high schools: an overcrowded urban high school, a math and science magnet school, and a well-funded school in an affluent neighborhood. They find an insidious “virtual segregation” that maintains inequality. The race gap in computer science, Margolis discovers, is one example of the way students of color are denied a wide range of occupational and educational futures. Stuck in the Shallow End is a story of how inequality is reproduced in America—and how students and teachers, given the necessary tools, can change the system. Since the 2008 publication of Stuck in the Shallow End, the book has found an eager audience among teachers, school administrators, and academics. This updated edition offers a new preface detailing the progress in making computer science accessible to all, a new postscript, and discussion questions (coauthored by Jane Margolis and Joanna Goode).
Shallow End
Title | Shallow End PDF eBook |
Author | Brenda Chapman |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Total Pages | 325 |
Release | 2017-03-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1459735129 |
Still waters run deep. English teacher, mother, wife, and convicted child predator Jane Thompson has made parole and she has a plan. She begins her life in the shadows while she bides her time. One month later, the bludgeoned body of the student she was found guilty of corrupting four years earlier is found on the shores of Lake Ontario. Officers Stonechild and Gundersund head up the investigation and Jane Thompson quickly becomes the prime suspect. But knowing guilt and proving it are two entirely different things. Wading through deeply buried secrets to the truth will take Stonechild and the team on a twisted journey into the heart of evil. The question is: who will come out the other side?
Shallow End
Title | Shallow End PDF eBook |
Author | Brenda Chapman |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Total Pages | 385 |
Release | 2017-03-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1459735110 |
Convicted child molester Jane Thompson has made parole, but one month later the body of the student she was found guilty of abusing is found on the shores of Lake Ontario. Sergeant Rouleau assigns Officers Stonechild and Gundersund to head up the murder investigation, but things quickly get ugly, and not just with the case.
The Shallow End
Title | The Shallow End PDF eBook |
Author | Ashley Sievwright |
Publisher | Clouds of Magellan |
Total Pages | 159 |
Release | 2011-06-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1742980732 |
It was one of the most perfect days, only just warm enough, an ever so slight breeze I could see in the hairs on my arm and in the flutter of the flags across each end of the pool but couldn't feel. It must have been the exact temperature of my blood.' On a cloudless afternoon, a man dives into a crowded swimming pool and disappears. Is it murder, a staged disappearance or alien abduction? 'The Shallow End' - a steady freestyle commentary on sex, celebrity and suntanning. The Shallow End was shortlisted in the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Swimming in the Shallow End
Title | Swimming in the Shallow End PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Raisor |
Publisher | Turning Point |
Total Pages | 80 |
Release | 2013-02 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781625490087 |
SWIMMING IN THE SHALLOW END is narrative poetry at its best, a verse memoir that examines the archetypal American conflict between the desire to stay and the passion to go. Take any community; every street, in and out, is crowded with the dreams and frustrations of characters who seek their identities on the road or in their favorite diners. In an exchange of stories between the narrator who returns like the prodigal son and his wayfaring friend, the worlds of the Bronx and Paris and Hanoi are not far from Muncie, Indiana. Like William Carlos Williams' Rutherford, New Jersey, and B.H. Fairchild's Liberal, Kansas, Philip Raisor's Middletown is a neighborhood pool that never seems long or deep enough, but grows in memory and the imagination. "Raisor's poems spring vividly from the country, with 'enough farm philosophy / to clog a pig, ' and move out into the wider world with wisdom, humor, and a stubborn resistance to despair. They look through the world's pain and confusion toward meaning and hope, which all our best poems do." --Peter Meinke "Philip Raisor's finely crafted collection is about the hometown that still haunts us long after we have left it. This skillfully unified narrative brings to mind James Joyce's Dubliners and the need to leave home for a wider perspective. Swimming in the Shallow End is an impressive, memorable book."--Peter Makuck "These brilliant poems are full of disquieting images: broken statues, downtown decay, faded prints of the Klan, small town America. It's the land of myth, broken dreams, and family memories. In Philip Raisor's shallow end there are dark, unsettling places, but enough light to provide pleasure and great insight into a difficult world." --Norman Denzin "Academics and journalists have written thousands of pages about Muncie, Indiana, the city Robert and Helen Lynd made famous as 'Middletown, ' but there is nothing like Swimming in the Shallow End. Raisor's poetry evokes the experience of living in and coming from this quintessentially American Community--its joys and sorrows, its characters, its feel--in a way no social survey could."--James J. Connolly
Notes from the Shallow End
Title | Notes from the Shallow End PDF eBook |
Author | Andy Flannagan |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 92 |
Release | 2014-06-20 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781910012086 |
Life at the Shallow End
Title | Life at the Shallow End PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Bailey |
Publisher | Hachette Children's |
Total Pages | 203 |
Release | 2011-04-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1444903721 |
Electra's family is falling apart. Her dad's moving out, her mum's given in to her daytime TV addiction, and her little brother (aka The Little Runt) has just been caught shoplifting. Even the guinea-pig's gone mental. And all Electra can think about is whether green eyeliner compliments or clashes with blue eyes. Where can a girl turn in her hour of need? To her best friends, of course. Together, they think up a plan: persuading the class geek to stalk her dad seemed like a good idea at the time ...