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“laura bronstein”

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  • School-Linked Services

    Promoting Equity for Children, Families, and Communities

    by Laura Bronstein, Susan Mason ...
    The evidence-based strategies in this volume close the achievement gap among students from all sociological backgrounds. Designed according to local needs assessments, they provide the services, programs, initiatives, and relationships that are crucial for children's success in school and life.These practices and programs include afterschool and summer sessions, early-childhood education, school ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

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  • Cruel to Be Kind

    Saying no can save a child’s life

    by Cathy Glass ...
    Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes.Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes. Fostering Max gets off to a bad start when his mother, Caz, complains and threatens Cathy even before Max ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Cruel to Be Kind: Part 2 of 3

    Saying no can save a child’s life

    by Cathy Glass ...
    Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes.Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes. Fostering Max gets off to a bad start when his mother, Caz, complains and threatens Cathy even before Max ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Deepest Well

    Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity

    by Nadine Burke Harris ...
    “An extraordinary, eye-opening book.” —PeopleNational Health Information Awards winner“A rousing wake-up call. . . . This highly engaging, provocative book prove[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that millions of lives depend on us finally coming to terms with the long-term consequences of childhood adversity and toxic stress.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowDr. Nadine Burke Harris was ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Brightening Glance

    Imagination and Childhood

    by Ellen Handler Spitz ...
    In this remarkable book, Ellen Handler Spitz shows how to promote children’s creative and emotional growth by making the most of the unlimited possibilities of everyday experiences.Through delightful anecdotes about real children and their treasures, bedrooms, play spaces, music, scary things, and birthday parties, The Brightening Glance will inspire you to create a life of wonder, inventiveness, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Generation Z

    What It's Like to Grow up in the Age of Likes, LOLs and Longing

    by The Washington Post ...
    An in-depth profile of the digital native generation from the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper.For the generation after Millennials, technology has been the only way of life since birth. These children are the first group to have their formative moments chronicled on Facebook, to grow up surrounded by the ubiquity of smartphones, and most important, to navigate a social landscape ruled by the ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Children's Social and Emotional Wellbeing in Schools

    A Critical Perspective

    by Debbie Watson, Carl Emery, Phillip Bayliss, Margaret Boushel, Karen McInnes ...
    This book challenges the concept of wellbeing as applied to children, particularly in a school-based context. Taking a post-structural approach, it suggests that wellbeing should be understood, and experiences revealed, at the level of the subjective child. This runs counter to contemporary accounts that reduce children's wellbeing to objective lists of things that are needed in order to live well ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • American Child Bride

    A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States

    by Nicholas L. Syrett ...
    Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past. But Nicholas L. Syrett challenges this assumption in his sweeping and sometimes shocking history of youthful marriage in America. Focusing on young women and girls — the most common underage spouses — Syrett tracks the marital history of American minors from the colonial ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Negotiating Opportunities

    How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School

    by Jessica McCrory Calarco ...
    In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco traces that negotiated advantage from its origins at home to its consequences at school. Through their parents' coaching, working-class students learn to follow rules and work through problems independently. Middle-class ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • An Equal Start?

    Providing Quality Early Education and Care for Disadvantaged Children

    Edited by Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart, Jane Waldfogel ...
    Series series CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and Policy
    Early education and care has become a central policy area in many countries. As services expand rapidly, it is crucial to examine whether children from disadvantaged backgrounds receive provision of the highest possible quality.In this original, topical book, leading experts from eight countries examine how early education and care is organised, funded and regulated in their countries. Bringing ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Identity and Upbringing in South Asian Muslim Families

    Insights from Young People and their Parents in Britain

    by Michela Franceschelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    What is it like to grow up as a South Asian British Muslim today? What are the experiences of South Asian Muslim parents bringing up their children in contemporary Britain? Identity and Upbringing in South Asian Muslim Families explores these questions within the context of the series of events which, from 9/11 to the recent upsurge of the Islamic State, have affected the perceptions and the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Moving into Adolescence

    The Impact of Pubertal Change and School Context

    by Roberta G. Simmons ...
    Series series Social Institutions and Social Change Series
    From the sociological point of view, adolescence traditionally has been described as a period of physical maturity and social immaturity. Adolescents reach physical adulthood before they are capable of functioning well in adult social roles. The disjunction between physical capabilities and socially allowed independence and power and the concurrent status ambiguities are viewed as stressful for ... Read more

    $79.99 USD