For most of America's history, schools were established to furnish more than just academic training: They were founded to form young people of strong character and civic conscience. We rarely think of our schools that way now. Ironically, we bicker over test scores, graduation rates, and academic standards, even as we are besieged by news stories of gratuitous misconduct and cynical, callous, unethical behavior. Might our schools provide a glimmer of hope? This is precisely the question th...

For most of America's history, schools were established to furnish more than just academic training: They were founded to form young people of strong character and civic conscience. We rarely think of our schools that way now. Ironically, we bicker over test scores, graduation rates, and academic standards, even as we are besieged by news stories of gratuitous misconduct and cynical, callous, unethical behavior. Might our schools provide a glimmer of hope? This is precisely the question th...

Finding My Humanity is a captivating memoir written by the author, Ryan Ubuntu Olson, as he recounts his experiences as a lonely, sullen youth who learned to overcome judgment and discover hope for the future.Olson takes readers on a journey across the globe, from his early days as a timid child to becoming an accidental activist, gaining notoriety for his efforts, leading to his work around the world supporting human rights advocates from various countries.Throughout the b...

Finding My Humanity is a captivating memoir written by the author, Ryan Ubuntu Olson, as he recounts his experiences as a lonely, sullen youth who learned to overcome judgment and discover hope for the future.Olson takes readers on a journey across the globe, from his early days as a timid child to becoming an accidental activist, gaining notoriety for his efforts, leading to his work around the world supporting human rights advocates from various countries.Throughout the b...

To understand cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) management, the clinician requires a foundation of information regarding CIED purpose, design and function, as well as experience in interpreting CIED output, i.e., electrical assessment of the system, programmed parameters, electrograms, and markers. In addition, one must be able to correlate and interpret the accompanying electrocardiographic tracing with the patient’s clinical presentation. For students of CIED management, be th...

In a world increasingly shaped by fear, division, and rising authoritarianism, Finding My Humanity is a timely memoir that invites us back to what connects us most—our mutual capacity for love, empathy, and courage- indeed our shared humanity. Ryan Ubuntu Olson's journey begins in rural Colorado, where he wrestles with his identity in a community that offers little space for difference. As a queer young man navigating isolation, discrimination, and heartbreak, he is forced to reckon with w...

This volume culls scholarship on both what high literacy is and how it is developed. It embraces the call put forth by Langer and Applebee (2016) that high literacy must continue to be our aim and to see more research analyzing and identifying how teachers might promote literacy practices that promote deep thinking around important content. The editors offer a conceptual framework for high literacy that explicates how each component (i.e. reading, writing, dialogic engagement, and epistemi...

What is the price of justice? Everything. Bass Olson, a genius, out-of-work software designer, returns to Innocence, Arkansas, to be by his grandfather's deathbed. No one has been able to understand Old Zeke's final words, but Bass creates a program that can decipher them. Old Zeke wants his son's murderer caught and brought to justice. The fact that Daniel's death seventeen years prior was deemed accidental at the time is just the first of many complications. Gran Olson is a feisty retire...

For most of America's history, schools were established to furnish more than just academic training: They were founded to form young people of strong character and civic conscience. We rarely think of our schools that way now. Ironically, we bicker over test scores, graduation rates, and academic standards, even as we are besieged by news stories of gratuitous misconduct and cynical, callous, unethical behavior. Might our schools provide a glimmer of hope? This is precisely the question th...

The sophisticated methods used in recent high-profile cyber incidents have driven many to need to understand how such security issues work. Demystifying the complexity often associated with information assurance, Cyber Security Essentials provides a clear understanding of the concepts behind prevalent threats, tactics, and procedures.To accomplish this, the team of security professionals from VeriSign’s iDefense® Security Intelligence Services supply an extensive r...