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A Washington Post Book of the Year Winner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award “A masterful study of privacy.” —Sue Halpern, New York Review of Books “Masterful (and timely)...[A] marathon trek from Victorian propriety to social media exhibitionism...Utterly original.” —Washington Post Every day, we make decisions about what to share and when, how much to expose and to whom. Securing the boundary between one’s private affairs and public identity has become an urgent task of modern life. How did privacy come to loom so large in public consciousness? Sarah Igo tracks the quest for privacy from the invention of the tel...
For classroom teachers and reading specialists in grades K-8, here is a unique daily diagnostic tool for the quick, informal assessment of children's competence in basic reading skills at specific grade levels in any classroom or school-wide reading program. Included are 8 separately printed, spiral-bound volumes at 8 levels: Reading Skills Competency Tests: READINESS LEVEL Reading Skills Competency Tests: FIRST LEVEL Reading Skills Competency Tests: SECOND LEVEL Reading Skills Competency Tests: THIRD LEVEL Reading Skills Competency Tests: FOURTH LEVEL Reading Skills Competency Tests: FIFTH LEVEL Reading Skills Competency Tests: SIXTH LEVEL Reading Skills Competency Tests: ADVANCED LEVEL Eac...
Just as Mississippi whites in the 1950s and 1960s had fought to maintain school segregation, they battled in the 1970s to control the school curriculum. Educators faced a crucial choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or offering students a more enlightened multiracial view of their state's past. In 1974, when Random House's Pantheon Books published Mississippi: Conflict and Change (written and edited by James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis), the defenders of the traditional interpretation struck back at the innovative textbook. Intolerant of its inclusion of African Americans, Native Americans, women, workers, and subjects like poverty, white terrorism, and cor...
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The most current information on United States secondary schools-- both public and private-- in a quick, easy-to-use format.