Democratic values, student achievement, and effective citizenship are intrinsically linked. The research, however, is that students, especially those from underprivileged backgrounds, have few opportunities to practice democratic citizenship in secondary schools. Alongside current threats to democracy, this should concern us all: professional learning communities, teacher-leaders, parents, consultants, administrators, school districts, human rights activists, minority leadership, the justi...

Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first days, the first principles, and the first effo...

Hold your breath while Jack B. Ninja dodges, leaps, and evades capture in this fantastical rhyming story from author Tim McCanna and award-winning illustrator Stephen Savage!*Jack B. Ninja! Jack, be quick! Jack, jump over the bamboo stick! Secret mission starts tonight. Hide in shadow, out of sight.*In this imaginative ninja fantasy inspired by the classic nursery rhyme "Jack Be Nimble," cheer on Jack as he sneaks over castle walls, swims through hidden tunnels, an...

This old English story, collected by James Halliwell Orchard Phillips, is a good fireside yarn. If you know the story of the Golden Goose, you might see some similarities. It has a nice repeating structure, and by the end of it, you will probably agree with Jack’s mother, that he’s not the cleverest of lads.

On each of the adventures, our characters get caught up in situations sometimes exciting, sometimes dangerous, and sometimes comical. Along with a host of other interesting characters attached to their adventures, these stories are written to help introduce children to a new way of looking at something that may ordinarily present a challenge. The adventures attached to discovering new tastes will have the reader and listener alike drawn into what happens next as both fun and danger await o...

Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book AwardWinner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book AwardA reverent celebration of learning to swim among a diverse cast of children and families who each experience the mysterious joys of water in nature.In this exploration of what it truly means to swim, expansive vignettes introduce sandpipers, tannin-soaked lakes, and the feeling of a small waterfal...

A hilarious, wacky Christmas tale from the New York Times bestselling author, Kelly Dipucchio, based on the classic children's rhyme, The House That Jack Built!This is the house Jack's family ate!This is the mother who's wrapping up giftswhile secretly munching on marshmallow driftson the house Jack's family ate.Join Jack's wacky family as they try to build a gingerbread house for Santa Claus... if only they can stop eating ...

Told through essays, memoirs, and other musings, this is the story of a radical Jew, academic, and educator from his birth in Ukraine during the Holocaust through the radical 60s and 70s, to the present day as he fights anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, xenophobia, and hate.Internationally known in Holocaust, genocide, and Jewish studies, Jack Nusan Porter was born in Maniewicz, Ukraine to Jewish Partisans in the 1940s. Through this engaging and thoughtful memoir, we fo...

Jack Nusan Porter’s writings date back to 1966, during the height of the Vietnam War. He describes the anguished struggle against war, racism, and poverty, as well as the radical groups and individuals involved—Jewish socialists, radical Zionists, radical Jews, Rabbi Meir Kahane and the Jewish Defense League, the counterculture, liberals, and conservatives alike. In addition, his writings vividly recount the anti-Zionist, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, and revolutionary terrorism of the times....

Return to Orchard Canyon...A Business Novel…Unlike any other business book, Return to Orchard Canyon will get you thinking - and working - toward a future you once thought was just a pipe dream.This is the story of David Reynolds, his father Ron, and his daughter Meghan. Through these unlikely teachers, you'll discover a path to understanding the plight of modern-day life.A life you yourself may be living and questioning... So many people are feeling...

Jack trades his favourite creepy-crawly for a magic spider's egg - and goes on a wriggly, wormy, gigantic insect adventure!

Jewish Partisans of the Soviet Union is a classic compilation of original Russian and Jewish sources on the anti-Nazi resistance in Eastern Europe. It is rooted in decades of research motivated by a desire to set the record straight on Jewish participation in resistance movements, a phenomenon often overlooked when not actively concealed. As the son of Jewish partisans in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, Jack Porter presents here the result of his decades-long research: first-hand ac...