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            6 Articles Categorized Under Community & School Reads Adults: Current Events

            Community & School Reads Adults: Current Events Community & School Reads Adults: Narrative Nonfiction First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: Social Justice
            March 14 2018

            10,000 New Social Housing Units – Thanks to Matthew Desmond’s EVICTED

            Tom Barrett, Mayor of Milwaukee, read Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, which tells the story of eight impoverished families in his city who are threatened with forced eviction. Influenced by this multi-award-winning book, Barrett is launching an ambitious housing project to build or renovate 10,000 housing units in Milwaukee over the next

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            10,000 New Social Housing Units – Thanks to Matthew Desmond’s EVICTED

            Community & School Reads Adults: Current Events Community & School Reads Adults: Narrative Nonfiction First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: Social Justice
            March 14 2018
            Horace Mann
            Community & School Reads Adults Community & School Reads Adults: Current Events Community & School Reads Adults: Memoir & Biography
            June 8 2017

            Celebrating “Book Day”: Horace Mann Reads Coates’ BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME

            Every spring for the past 23 years, the Horace Mann School (HM) in the Bronx, NY, has celebrated Book Day, a common reading event.  Book Day is a day when the entire school community—including students, faculty, parents, and alumni—dedicates one day to one book. Classes for more than 740 students and 150 faculty members are

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            Horace Mann

            Celebrating “Book Day”: Horace Mann Reads Coates’ BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME

            Community & School Reads Adults Community & School Reads Adults: Current Events Community & School Reads Adults: Memoir & Biography
            June 8 2017
            Social Justice
            Community & School Reads Adults: Current Events
            June 7 2017

            Young Readers Books to Help You Talk About Social Justice

            Looking for ways to introduce social justice into your classroom? We have a list of four books that will help you do just that! From nonfiction aimed at exposing problem areas in our communities to fiction where you can truly empathize with the characters and their plights, we have just the books for you.

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            Social Justice

            Young Readers Books to Help You Talk About Social Justice

            Community & School Reads Adults: Current Events
            June 7 2017
            Handmaid's Tale
            Community & School Reads Adults Community & School Reads Adults: Current Events
            April 26 2017

            New Audiences for THE HANDMAID’S TALE

            More than thirty years after its original publication, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel set in a frightening America of the near future where women-function only in the strictly defined roles assigned to them by men, remains unnervingly resonant to our current cultural conversation. The book as a result has returned to the bestseller list. Atwood has written a new introduction to the

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            Handmaid's Tale

            New Audiences for THE HANDMAID’S TALE

            Community & School Reads Adults Community & School Reads Adults: Current Events
            April 26 2017
            Enriques Journey TedX
            Community & School Reads Adults: Current Events Community & School Reads Kids: Nonfiction First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: Social Justice
            April 10 2017

            “Solving Illegal Immigration [For Real]:” ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY Author Sonia Nazario’s Ideas for Fixing a Broken System

            In a new Ted Talk entitled “Solving Illegal Immigration [For Real],” decorated journalist and author Sonia Nazario suggests an alternative method to naturalization or heavy border policing to stem the flow of undocumented individuals into the United States. Nazario boasts a long and impressive writing career, during which she has shown immense dedication to featuring

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            Enriques Journey TedX

            “Solving Illegal Immigration [For Real]:” ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY Author Sonia Nazario’s Ideas for Fixing a Broken System

            Community & School Reads Adults: Current Events Community & School Reads Kids: Nonfiction First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: Social Justice
            April 10 2017
            Community & School Reads Adults: Current Events First-Year Reading: Social Justice
            November 16 2015

            “Genius” Grant Winner Matthew Desmond on Eviction, Poverty and Profit in the American City

            By Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Crown, March 2016) I began this project because I wanted to write a different kind of book about poverty in America. Instead of focusing exclusively on poor people or poor places, I began searching for a process that involved poor and well-off

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            “Genius” Grant Winner Matthew Desmond on Eviction, Poverty and Profit in the American City

            Community & School Reads Adults: Current Events First-Year Reading: Social Justice
            November 16 2015
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