Swimming in the Shallow End
Author | : Ron Kolm |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781570273759 |
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Author | : Ron Kolm |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781570273759 |
Author | : Wanda Phipps |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 9781570273735 |
Author | : Hannah Cole |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Swimming |
ISBN | : 9780744514773 |
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).
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
Author | : John Shelby Spong |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0061936685 |
Drawing on a lifetime of wisdom, New York Times bestselling author and controversial religious leader John Shelby Spong continues to challenge traditional Christian theology in Eternal Life: A New Vision. In this remarkable spiritual autobiography about his lifelong struggle with the questions of God and death, he reveals how he ultimately came to believe in eternal life.
Author | : Karen Eva Carr |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2022-07-18 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1789145775 |
A deep dive into the history of aquatics that exposes centuries-old tensions of race, gender, and power at the root of many contemporary swimming controversies. Shifting Currents is an original and comprehensive history of swimming. It examines the tension that arose when non-swimming northerners met African and Southeast Asian swimmers. Using archaeological, textual, and art-historical sources, Karen Eva Carr shows how the water simultaneously attracted and repelled these northerners—swimming seemed uncanny, related to witchcraft and sin. Europeans used Africans’ and Native Americans’ swimming skills to justify enslaving them, but northerners also wanted to claim water’s power for themselves. They imagined that swimming would bring them health and demonstrate their scientific modernity. As Carr reveals, this unresolved tension still sexualizes women’s swimming and marginalizes Black and Indigenous swimmers today. Thus, the history of swimming offers a new lens through which to gain a clearer view of race, gender, and power on a centuries-long scale.
Author | : Pete Andersen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2014-11 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9780989946865 |
This affordable 107 page book reviews water safety measures and your personal skill level in the shallow end of a pool or lake first before attempting to swim in any deep water. You must be confident of your efficient floating and swimming skills first. You are taken through a series of review steps to build your confidence with floating, kicking, arm stroking, breathing, and relaxation all in the shallow end. You are advised to notify and get permission from a lifeguard when the pool is not busy so you can swim in the deep end. Next, with a lifeguard standing present, you can learn to swim across the corner of the deep end of a pool that will be only half the distance you are expected to swim without touching the bottom in the shallow end. Once you relax and take your time your confidence and skills will improve to swim in all kinds of deep water.
Author | : Jane Margolis |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2010-02-26 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0262260964 |
An investigation into why so few African American and Latino high school students are studying computer science 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, according to recent surveys. 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 looks 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. She finds an insidious “virtual segregation” that maintains inequality. Two of the three schools studied offer only low-level, how-to (keyboarding, cutting and pasting) introductory computing classes. The third and wealthiest school offers advanced courses, but very few students of color enroll in them. The race gap in computer science, Margolis finds, is one example of the way students of color are denied a wide range of occupational and educational futures. Margolis traces the interplay of school structures (such factors as course offerings and student-to-counselor ratios) and belief systems—including teachers' assumptions about their students and students' assumptions about themselves. 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.
Author | : Nancy Lawson |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2017-04-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1616896175 |
In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.