In Learning While Black Janice Hale argues that educators must look beyond the cliches of urban poverty and teacher training to explain the failures of public education with regard to black students. Why, Hale asks simply, are black students not being educated as well as white students?Hale goes beyond finger pointing to search for solutions. Closing the achievement gap of African American children, she writes, does not involve better teacher training or more parental invo...

I was married to Janice for forty-one years. Our time together was cut short by cancer. These poems were what I could find from her various writings, mostly her yearly planners which she never threw away, sometimes in cards or in a special book in which she wrote to me . Most of these poems are quite personal, but I am sharing them because she loved poetry and I wanted to somehow acknowledge her own poet nature and to preserve, for those who loved her, the imagery of her writing. Since thi...

Sadie doesn’t want a new life; her old one suits her just fine. But times are hard in drought-plagued Missouri, and Daddy thinks they’ll be better off in Texas. It’s tough for Sadie to give up her beloved home for this strange place, where even children clean shrimp at the cannery to help make ends meet and where people are rude to her disabled father.Yet when trouble comes, it is the kindness of these new neighbors that helps the family through. And no one helps more than Dollie, ...

Here is a small book with the Maxims of Brother Lawrence. The book is set up so that you can absorb these maxims with short, easy readings each day over the course of one month, allowing you ample time to reflect and meditate upon each maxim.

George Washington's Rules of Civility is a short list of 110 principles or maxims by which, supposedly, proper decent people must abide. While some of these maxims may seem dated others are still quite apt for today. A quick read, George Washington's Rules of Civility is an insightful look at the manners and customs of an age gone by.

This collection consists of thirty poems that relate the notion of love, loss, and hopelessness. The verses contained herein presents the struggle to find ourselves after a moment of despair threatens to engulf us; which is heartbreaking, yet something that binds us in our humanity despite our differences. It is our frailty that makes us human; and our strength to not give up when hope seems lost. We are not alone in our despair as we struggle and lay all things bare.

Pain, specifically the pain of a loss, is an unavoidable fact of life. Some of us have had so much pain that we are overwhelmed by it. The thought of trying to work through the pain, to face the realities of what has happened, may make us feel like shutting down and giving up. However, there is hope. There is a way to work through pain and to come out the other side stronger. In the end we have to make peace with the past in order to continue this life. The poetry collection As the Rest Co...

A collection of poems I have kept since I was 13-17 years old. They're all varying in different subjects but mostly it's about what I imagine certain things must have been like.

There was once a king's son, who was no longer content to stay at home in his father's house...

This poetry collection mainly explores human emotions. In an average day we all experience so many emotions and this is normal because we are imperfect and mortal humans. Though we may be placed in the same situation as another person we will always react in different ways because we are all different and unique. This collection of poems is what I have written from the age of 14 until now, exploring my own emotions and writing them down along the way.

Jeff Poggi's Modern Sonnets breathes new life into an old form.