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Over the last few years, Orthodox Jewish private schools, also known as yeshivas, have been under fire by a group of activists known as Young Advocates for Fair Education, run by several yeshiva graduates, who have criticized them for providing an inadequate secular education. At the heart of the yeshiva controversy lies two important interests in education: the right of the parent to choose an appropriate education, which may include values-laden religious education, and the right of each child to receive an appropriate education, as guaranteed by the state. These interests raise further questions. If preference is given to the former, how much freedom should be given to a parent in choosing an appropriate education? If the latter, how does the state define what constitutes an appropriate education or measure the extent to which an appropriate education has been achieved? And when can—or must—the state override the wishes of parents? The purpose of this book is to explore these difficult questions.
How Jack Lost Time
LEVELING Guided Reading Level: T Common Core State StandardsRL.5.1,2,3,4,5,6,10L.5.3,4,4a,5,5a,5b,5c,6RF.5.3,4,4a,4b,4cSL.5.1,1c,1d,2,3,4,6W.6.3,3a,3b,3c,3d,3e,4,9,9a,10
Teatime Around the World
A celebration of diversity and deliciousness, Teatime Around the World reveals all the wonderful ways we can enjoy a cup of tea––or two! Let’s go on an adventure to discover new cultures and friends through tea! In this fun and lyrical picture book for ages 4-8, kids will learn how tea is enjoyed in Thailand, Japan, Russia, Egypt, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Uruguay, South Sudan, India, and more countries! Did you know that po cha, the traditional tea in Tibet, is thick and salty like soup? Or that in Iran, tea is served with a rock? (A rock candy, that is!) Or that afternoon tea was dreamed up in England by a duchess who complained of being hungry between lunch and dinner? With vivid poetry, vibrant illustrations, and unique facts about different tea cultures, Teatime Around the World tells the delightful story of a beloved beverage.
Small History of a Disagreement
An easy-to-read, lively introduction to the subjects of democracy, citizenship, and the importance of voting. Without being didactic, the story teaches the value of informed debate, problem solving, and working together. Environmental angle: helps kids understand the importance of protecting the natural world and endangered species through introducing an ancient monkey puzzle tree, which children fight to save from development in the book.Back matter explains the significance of the monkey puzzle tree especially in its native Chile, where the book is set. LEVELING Guided Reading Level: S Common Core State StandardsL.4.3,4,4a,5,5a,5b,5c,6RF.4.3,4,4a,4cSL.4.1,1b,1c,1d,2,3,4,5,6W.4.1,1a,1b,1c,1d,7,8,9,9a,10RL.4.1,2,3,4,6,7,9,10
Catch the Sky
LEVELING Guided Reading Level: N Common Core State StandardsRL.3.1,2,4,5,6,7,10L.3.3,3b,4,4a,5,5a,5b,5c,6RF.3.3,4,4a,4b,4cSL.3.1,1c,1d,2,3,4,5,6W.3.2,3,4,7,8,10
Animals Brag About Their Bottoms
For fans of Taro Gomi’s Everyone Poops and Matthew Van Fleet’s Tails , this cheeky, whimsical picture book for ages 3-7 inspires self-love and body positivity, plus a whole lot of laughter and fun! All bottoms are wonderful! Don’t you agree? Each animal in this adorable book has a different reason for loving their behind —from cute and round to fashionable and striped! Talented illustrator Maki Saito makes kids laugh out loud with playful illustrations of the backsides of hippos, zebras, pandas, mandrills, and more of our favorite animals. Her traditional Japanese art techniques add a sophisticated, beautiful feel to a book about … animal butts! Kids will love readling along to this wonderfully silly and unusually empowering book. “In Saito’s delicate renderings, each bottom is distinct and, yes, beautiful.”— Kirkus
Plasticus Maritimus
Honorbale Mention—Bologna Ragazzi AwardA valuable, middle-grade resource to help kids learn about the effects of waterborne plastics and how they are affecting our world’s oceans and the planet itself. Combines science, activism, and art into a multifaceted and highly comprehensive book ideal for school and home libraries. Pêgo’s approach is positive and practical, inspiring readers to not only learn about the problem, but to also become part of the solution. Critiques current “solutions” to the plastics crisis, such as recycling, and offers better, more informed solutions, which kids and adults can try at home.A fun “field guide” shares how to identify plastics as an invasive species: how to categorize it, collect it, and safely move it elsewhere.Includes colorful images of plastics found “in the wild” in locations around the world. LEVELING Guided Reading Level: W Common Core State StandardsW.6.1,2,3,4,8,9,9b,10RI.6.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10L.6.3,4,4a,4b,4d,5,5a,5b,5c,6SL.6.1,1c,1d,2,3,4,5,6 Next Generation Science StandardsMS-LS1-From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and ProcessesMS-LS2-Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and DynamicsMS-LS4-Biological Evolution: Unity and DiversityMS-ETS1-Engineering DesignMS-ESS3-Earth and Human ActivityMS-ESS2-Earth's SystemsMS-PS1-Matter and its InteractionsMS-PS2-Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
Blaming the Jews
In recent years Western countries have seen a proliferation of antisemitic material in social media, and attacks on Jews such as that on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. Much of this has stemmed, not from personal hostility to Jews on the part of this or that individual, but from a resurgence in groups at both ends of politics of the ancient delusion that «the Jews» collectively dominate world affairs and lie at the root of all the world's evils. In Blaming the Jews author Bernard Harrison, offers a new and unique analysis of this second and far more dangerous form of antisemitism and its persistence as a cultural phenomenon. Questioning the assumption that antisemitism affects or targets only Jews, he demonstrates that, allowed to go unrecognised or unchecked, antisemitism is potentially damaging to us all. In a world where rhetoric is fashioned on stereotypes and driven by political ideology, Harrison argues it is our responsibility to be vigilant in exposing the delusions of antisemitism and their consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike.
Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater
Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is the first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories. Through examples from opera's origins to contemporary musicals, Nina Penner examines the roles of character-narrators and how they differ from those in literary and cinematic works, how music can orient spectators to characters' points of view, how being privy to characters' inner thoughts and feelings may evoke feelings of sympathy or empathy, and how performers' choices affect not only who is telling the story but what story is being told. Unique about Penner's approach is her engagement with current work in analytic philosophy. Her study reveals not only the resources this philosophical tradition can bring to musicology but those which musicology can bring to philosophy, challenging and refining accounts of narrative, point of view, and the work-performance relationship within both disciplines. She also considers practical problems singers and directors confront on a daily basis, such as what to do about Wagner's Jewish caricatures and the racism of Orientalist operas. More generally, Penner reflects on how centuries-old works remain meaningful to contemporary audiences and have the power to attract new, more diverse audiences to opera and musical theater. By exploring how practitioners past and present have addressed these issues, Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater offers suggestions for how opera and musical theater can continue to entertain and enrich the lives of 21st-century audiences.