![]() ![]() Now, in an ever-more-rapidly changing world with an explosion of alternative routes to learning, it’s poised to continue to shake the world of institutional education for many more years.įeaturing a new foreword from Zachary Slayback, an Ivy League dropout and co-founder of tech start-up career foundry Praxis, this 25th anniversary edition will inspire new generations of parents and students to take control of learning and kickstart an empowered society of self-directed lifetime-learners. Gatto’s radical treatise on public education, a New Society Publishers bestseller for 25 years, continues to bang the drum for an unshackling of children and learning from formal schooling. He became a fierce advocate of families and young people taking back education and learning, arguing that “genius is as common as dirt,” but that conventional schooling is driving out the natural curiosity and problem-solving skills we’re born with, replacing it with rule-following, fragmented time, and disillusionment. ![]() Thirty years of teaching in the public school system led John Taylor Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling is to blame, accomplishing little but to teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine. After over 100 years of mandatory schooling in the U.S., literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, learning “disabilities” are skyrocketing, and children and youth are increasingly disaffected. ![]()
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You already read Strong Signal, which he wrote with Megan Erickson, so you have an idea for the quality of both of their writing. Santino Hassell is my fav author, who I discovered through the In The Company of Shadows world. ![]() Sutphin Boulevard - Santino Hassell - Well. ![]() ![]() You’ve already read some of my favorites!! 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'?Painfully timely and deeply moving, this is the novel the next generation should be reading' Jodi Picoult ![]() ![]() ![]() īy turns heart wrenching and hopeful, A Virtuous Death is a gripping tale of fortitude besieged by vengeance inside the extraordinary world of Queen Victoria's court. But as she closes in on a murderer with an unearthly motive, Violet realizes she may be digging her own grave. Brown's ominous talents, and, concerned by the fortuneteller's influence, Violet races against time to unearth the truth before the killer strikes again. The deaths merely buttress the queen's enthusiasm for Mr. Her suspicions only grow when one of London's "moralists," a group bent on repealing the law that forces prostitutes into hospitals, suffers a similar fate. Violet wonders if something foul is in the cards when the aristocratic young friends of the queen's daughter begin to die under mysterious circumstances. 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Undertaker Violet Harper is invited to attend one of Mr. ![]() Queen Victoria, still mourning her long-dead husband Prince Albert, has found solace in John Brown, an enigmatic palace servant who dabbles in the occult and keeps the grieving queen entertained with his tarot card readings. ![]() ![]() Unable to see Roiben until she has fulfilled his quest, Kaye finds herself in the center of the battle of wits and weapons being waged over his throne. But when Kaye drunkenly declares herself to Roiben, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest to find a faerie who can tell a lie. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing-her love for Roiben. ![]() In Ironside, the sequel to Tithe, the time has come for Roiben's coronation. When one talks Val into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature, Val finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. The story of Fairy tale revolves around Umeed, a young middle-class girl who dreams of living the life of a princess and is always on the lookout for. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. In Valiant, the companion to Tithe, seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. ![]() There, amid the blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient and violent power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms-a struggle that could very well mean her death. Fierce and independent, she drifts from place to place with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. ![]() In Tithe, sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Silva takes the news of the past as well as discovers repetitions of that past information in today’s headings as well as attempts to warn all of us that we are doomed if we duplicate the blunders of our past. The answer is that Silva is very passionate about his sights of right and also incorrect, reasonable as well as not, as well as the differing nature of reality as it never just has one master to offer. This book is an example of exactly how to get rid of the insinuated barriers to exceptional writing. The Defector Audiobook – Daniel Silva Streaming. 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Disclaimer: This reviewer is a Silva fan for 2 decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() There she discovers a forgotten legacy of magic that is bound to her own identity. Serafina’s hunt leads her into the very forest that she has been taught to fear. ![]() Braeden and Serafina must uncover the Man in the Black Cloak’s true identity before all of the children vanish one by one. Following her own harrowing escape, Serafina risks everything by joining forces with Braeden Vanderbilt, the young nephew of Biltmore’s owners. None of the rich folk upstairs know that Serafina exists she and her pa, the estate’s maintenance man, have secretly lived in the basement for as long as Serafina can remember.īut when children at the estate start disappearing, only Serafina knows who the culprit is: a terrifying man in a black cloak who stalks Biltmore’s corridors at night. There’s plenty to explore in the shadowed corridors of her vast home, but she must take care to never be seen. Summary: Serafina has never had a reason to disobey her pa and venture beyond the grounds of Biltmore Estate. ![]() Source: e-ARC via netgalley (Thank you, Disney-Hyperion!!) Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty ![]() ![]() The extraordinary new conditions in which this entire generation has lived constitute a comprehensive summary of all that, henceforth, the spectacle will forbid and also all that it will permit. ![]() Quite simply, the spectacle’s domination has succeeded in raising a whole generation moulded to its laws. “In all that has happened in the last twenty years, the most important change lies in the very continuity of the spectacle. Now finally available in a superb English translation approved by the author, Debord’s text remains as crucial as ever for understanding the contemporary effects of power, which are increasingly inseparable from the new virtual worlds of our rapidly changing image / information culture. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late twentieth century. ![]() Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. Most people today have scarcely any awareness of pre-spectacle history, let alone of anti-spectacle possibilities. Since 1967, Guy Debords critical manifesto The Society of the Spectacle has been an essentiel theoretical basis for any attempt to analyse the capitalist. ![]() |