Other People s Children

• Author : Lisa D. Delpit
• Publisher : The New Press
• Release : 31 March 2023

An updated edition of the award-winning analysis of the role of race in the classroom features a new author introduction and framing essays by Herbert Kohl and Charles Payne, in an account that shares ideas about how teachers can function as "cultural transmitters" in contemporary schools and communicate more effectively to overcome race-related academic challenges. Original.

• Author : Lisa Delpit
• Publisher : The New Press
• Release : 01 August 2006

Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award and Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic book award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine’s “great books,” Other People’s Children has sold over 150,000 copies since its original hardcover publication. This anniversary paperback edition features a new introduction by Delpit as well as new framing essays by Herbert Kohl and Charles Payne. In a radical analysis of contemporary classrooms, MacArthur Award–winning author Lisa Delpit develops ideas about ways teachers

• Author : Jeff Hoffmann
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 06 April 2021

An “engrossing debut” novel (Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me) about a couple whose dreams of adoption push them to do the unthinkable when their baby’s birth family steps into the picture. HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO SAVE YOUR FAMILY? As soon as Gail and Jon Durbin bring home their adopted baby Maya, she becomes the glue that mends their fractured marriage. But the Durbin’s social worker, Paige, can’

• Author : Joanna Trollope
• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• Release : 31 March 1999

A novel on the effect of divorce and remarriage on children. The wife, Josie, has one girl while Matthew, the husband, has three children. Matthew's children did not particularly love their mother, Nadine, but out of loyalty they feel obliged to give Josie a hard time. By the author of The Best of Friends.

• Author : Debbie Ausburn
• Publisher : Hatherleigh Press
• Release : 25 May 2021

Raising Other People's Children helps you navigate the complicated world of foster and step-parenting with better awareness and greater empathy, providing real-life solutions for forging strong relationships in extraordinary circumstances. Drawing on Debbie Ausburn’s decades of experience with every facet of the foster care system, Raising Other People's Children provides expert guidance viewed through the lens of real human interactions. The responsibility and complexity involved in raising someone else’s child can seem overwhelming. Regardless of whether you’re

• Author : United States. Children's Bureau
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 March 1964

• Author : Cecilia Kato
• Publisher : AuthorHouse
• Release : 02 December 2014

The Nigerian Civil War left behind unsung heroes—women and children. Some of them had befriended soldiers to ensure the survival of their families. These children and others born out of wedlock constitute a community of people who have identity crises rocking their lives. Also, veterans of the war, abandoned by the authorities, were left as ordinary individuals to contend with the war’s destructive impact. This is the focus of the title story, “Other People’s Children.” “Homeless” captures

• Author : Julia Wrigley
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 March 1995

Based on more than 150 interviews with caregivers and parents, this book explores the hidden side of caregiving relationships. Julia Wrigley asks how parents learn to be employers and why some fail at the task. The book is an unsparing examination of the poignant situations and conflicts that can arise when parents and caregivers share child rearing but little else. In their own words, caregivers tell of working long hours in aching isolation and boredom, asked to invest emotionally in children

• Author : Ramesh Raghavan
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 March 2023

• Author : Frances Kemper Alston
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 March 1984

The demand for child care is immense, and is growing every day. More and more two-salary families are joining the already large number of working single parents. And more and more people want to stay at home but need a steady source of income. Family day care - caring for other people's children in one's home - is often the answer to both.

• Author : Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Publisher : DigiCat
• Release : 04 September 2022

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of

• Author : Peter C. Scales
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 06 December 2012

According to the study conducted by Gallup Organization, only a minority of Americans experience consistent normative motivation for engaging with other people's children. Social norms theory suggests that adults are more likely to get deeply involved if that involvement is viewed as highly important, and if they perceive a social expectation to do so. This volume examines the nature of social norms in general and in relationship to children and adolescents. The book examines the complex dynamics of understanding the

• Author : Victoria Purcell-Gates
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release : 03 August 2012

If asked to identify which children rank lowest in relation to national educational norms, have higher school dropout and absence rates, and more commonly experience learning problems, few of us would know the answer: white, urban Appalachian children. These are the children and grandchildren of Appalachian families who migrated to northern cities in the 1950s to look for work. They make up this largely "invisible" urban group, a minority that represents a significant portion of the urban poor. Literacy researchers

• Author : Vershawn Ashanti Young,Rusty Barrett,Y'Shanda Young-Rivera,Kim Brian Lovejoy
• Publisher : Teachers College Press
• Release : 01 December 2013

This book presents an empirically grounded argument for a new approach of teaching writing to diverse students in the English language arts classroom. Responding to advocates of the "code-switching" approach, four uniquely qualified authors make the case for "code-meshing"--allowing students to use standard English, African American English, and other Englishes in formal academic writing and classroom discussions. This practical resource translates theory into a concrete roadmap for pre-and in-service teachers who wish to use code-meshing in the classroom to

• Author : Marcus Erooga,Helen Masson
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 27 September 2006

Presenting a detailed and coherent analysis, exploring the key aspects of working with children and young people with sexually harmful behaviours, this revised and expanded volume includes fresh and updated chapters, which address context and systems issues, assessment and planning, as well as interventions and practitioner issues. The major topics covered include: policy, law, organizational contexts and service provision in the UK developing a comprehensive inter-agency system of response the management of sexual behaviour problems in schools and in placements