Can White teachers teach Black Students? This is the provocative and pointed inquiry that drives the creation of White Teachers, Black Students. The twin purpose of this book is how can White teachers consistently teach and reach Black students? Hines starts the book by framing these inquiries within the historical context of race, whiteness, and white people. He then carefully draws a line from this context to the modern day white framing of White teachers’ actions towards African America...

The saga continues where the names change, but the game remains the same. When technology was incorporated into the oldest profession known to man it created a new generation of high tech participants. With the assistance of Wi-Fi and terabytes of RAM a once underworld elite trade has reached infinite levels of entrepreneurship. As Money Clip and Finesse merge over into the slower lanes of the game’s highways, Lil Juan appears in high definition and Turn’t up to pull more cards than a Blac...

This novel describes a character we may have encountered in some stage for our lives. While fictitiously created, "Money Clip" resides where fact and fiction cross that thin line of belief and imagination. His journey starts on the wicked streets of Los Angeles and travels to the crisp scenery of Portland. He sticks thumb tacks on the map pinpointing Miami, Canada, and other regions of the globe, where the sale of sex is prominent.Although he excelled in the trade of a flesh peddli...

This issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, edited by Mack T. Ruffin IV, MD, MPH and Cameron G. Shultz PhD, MSW, is devoted to Preventive Medicine. Articles in this issue include Risk Assessment Approach Screening; Substance Use and Tobacco Screening; Sexually Transmitted Infections; Planned Pregnancy; Violence Screening; Breast Cancer Screening; Lung Cancer Screening; Colorectal Cancer Screening; Prostate Cancer Screening; Heart Disease Screening; Screening for Depression; and...

The reclamation of Black Lives Matter (BLM) in education represents a powerful movement to confront and dismantle systemic racism within schools and academic institutions. Rooted in the struggle for racial justice, this initiative highlights Black voices, experiences, and histories marginalized or excluded from traditional curricula. It challenges disciplinary policies and institutional practices that disproportionately harm Black students. As educators, students, and communities push for ...

Knocked from her ThroneJust when she's at top of her game and the queen reigning over many, Caiza's upward climb does an about-face when a stupid mistake forces her into a life of poverty. Turning to her best friend for help, Caiza is initiated into the sleazy and treacherous world of stripping. Struggling to maintain her sanity, Caiza becomes immobilized in a late-night, grimy life she never could have imagined. While trying to accept her new station in life, Caiza...

An updated and revised edition of the controversial classic—now more relevant than ever—argues that boys are the ones languishing socially and academically, resulting in staggering social and economic costs.Girls and women were once second-class citizens in the nation’s schools. Americans responded with concerted efforts to give girls and women the attention and assistance that was long overdue. Now, after two major waves of feminism and decades of policy reform, w...

#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Emmy Award–winning comedian, actress, writer, and star of Inside Amy Schumer, Hulu’s Life & Beth, and the acclaimed film Trainwreck has taken the entertainment world by storm with her winning blend of smart, satirical humor. Now, Amy Schumer has written a refreshingly candid and uproariously funny collection of (extremely) personal and observational essays.**“Amy S...

Calls for renewed moral education in America's schools, offering dozens of programs schools can adopt to teach students respect, responsibility, hard work, and other values that should not be left to parents to teach.

From the MacArthur Award–winning education reformer and author of the bestselling Other People's Children, a long-awaited new book on how to fix the persistent black/white achievement gap in America's public schoolsAs MacArthur Award–winning educator Lisa Delpit reminds us—and as all research shows—there is no achievement gap at birth. In her long-awaited second book, Delpit presents a striking picture of the elements of contemporary public education that ...

The second sizzling segment in the erotic serial His to Possess, an intoxicating tale of a woman torn between a dominant billionaire and a tattooed, bad boy rock musician.When Jessica and Dane shared a night of explosively hot, no-strings-attached sex, she never expected him to offer the one thing she needed most—a job at his business empire.As she embraces her role as his assistant, it becomes impossible to keep things strictly professional. Her body burns f...

Recently the lives of people from age 18 to 29 have changed so dramatically that a new stage of life has developed, emerging adulthood, that is distinct from both the adolescence that precedes it and the young adulthood that comes in its wake. Rather than marrying and becoming parents in their early twenties, most people in industrialized societies now postpone these transitions until at least their late twenties, and instead spend the time in self-focused exploration as they try out diffe...