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            8 Articles Tagged Current Events

            First-Year Reading
            September 15 2020

            Register for the 2021 Penguin Random House First-Year Experience® Conference Virtual Author Events!

            Penguin Random House Author Events at the 40th Annual First-Year Experience® Conference February 15-19, 2021 Click Here to RSVP Interested in hosting one of these authors at your school? Click their name below to learn more! Emily Bernard Ta-Nehisi Coates Michele Harper Megha Majumdar Isabel Wilkerson  

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            Register for the 2021 Penguin Random House First-Year Experience® Conference Virtual Author Events!

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            September 15 2020
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            April 5 2018

            Five Key Terms to Understand the Shared Struggle for Black and Latinx Civil Rights: A Letter from Christian Coleman on Paul Ortiz’s New Book

            The following letter was contributed by Christian Coleman, Digital Marketing Associate at Beacon Press.  We live in a time where a president makes barefaced remarks in speeches that African Americans and Latinx people are prone to violence and corruption. His statements, obviously, pay no respect to the centuries-long history of African Americans and Latinx people organizing together

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            Five Key Terms to Understand the Shared Struggle for Black and Latinx Civil Rights: A Letter from Christian Coleman on Paul Ortiz’s New Book

            Community & School Reads Adults
            April 5 2018
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            First-Year Reading
            August 17 2017

            A letter from Nadia Murad, author of THE LAST GIRL

            My name is Nadia Murad. I am Yazidi, a member of a small, monotheistic religious community whose holy temples and homelands are located in northern Iraq. Early in the morning of August 3, 2014, militants with the Islamic State attacked Kocho, my small village, and from that moment on my life—as well as the lives

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            A letter from Nadia Murad, author of THE LAST GIRL

            First-Year Reading
            August 17 2017
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            First-Year Reading
            March 22 2017

            Neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin on Critical Thinking in a Post-Truth Era

            The best defense against sly prevaricators, the most reliable one, is for every one of us to learn how to become critical thinkers. Critical thinking trains us to take a step back, to evaluate facts and form evidence-based conclusions.

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            Neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin on Critical Thinking in a Post-Truth Era

            First-Year Reading
            March 22 2017
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            March 13 2017

            You Can Save Lives with This Community Read

            by DONNA GEPHART, author of Lily and Dunkin (Delacorte Press, May 2016)   I’m not going to sugarcoat this. The statistic is grim and the stories behind it heartbreaking. Forty-three percent of transgender young people try to kill themselves. Why? Here’s one story: Because her parents isolated her from supportive friends and adults, refused to accept

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            You Can Save Lives with This Community Read

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            March 13 2017
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            February 6 2017

            VIDEO: Chelsea Clinton Shares Why She Loves Audiobooks

            Did you know that more than 85% of learning derives from listening? Chelsea Clinton, author and narrator of IT’S YOUR WORLD, shares some fascinating literacy facts that support why audiobooks are an important addition to any classroom or library.

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            VIDEO: Chelsea Clinton Shares Why She Loves Audiobooks

            Community & School Reads Kids Community & School Reads Kids: Nonfiction
            February 6 2017
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            First-Year Reading: Science & Technology
            January 25 2017

            Journalist Jon Ronson on Twitter Shaming

            Twitter has become a stage for constant artificial high drama, where every day a new person emerges as either a magnificent hero or a sickening villain.

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            Journalist Jon Ronson on Twitter Shaming

            First-Year Reading: Science & Technology
            January 25 2017
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            December 22 2016

            Community-Wide Reads: Young Adult Adaptations of Bestselling Books

            Many times, when communities consider books for a common reading experience, they are taking into account the entire makeup of their group or groups of people. This undoubtedly includes families with young children and/or teenagers, and what better way to bring this collective group together than to appeal to all age groups? When a book

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            Community-Wide Reads: Young Adult Adaptations of Bestselling Books

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            December 22 2016
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