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Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act Is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools
A citizens' guide to what's wrong with the nation's radical federal education legislation—and a passionate call for change The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has become the most fiercely debated education issue of this election year, and it will be at the center of the national conversation about schools for the foreseeable future. NCLB, signed into law in 2002, purports to improve public schools—and especially the way they serve poor children—by enforcing a system of standards and accountability through high-stakes testing and sanctions. It is radically affecting the life of schools around the country. Many Children Left Behind is a devastating brief against NCLB. Far from improving public schools and increasing the ability of the system to serve poor and minority children, the authors argue, the law is doing exactly the opposite. Here some of our most prominent, respected voices in education—including Deborah Meier, Alfie Kohn, and Theodore R. Sizer—come together to show us how, point by point, NCLB undermines the things it claims to improve: · How NCLB punishes rather than helps poor and minority kids and their schools · How NCLB helps further an agenda of privatization and an attack on public schools · How the focus on testing and test preparation dumbs down classrooms · How we need alternatives to construing the idea of accountability in terms of test scores and sanctions. Educators and parents around the country are feeling the harshly counterproductive effects of NCLB. This book is an essential guide to understanding what's wrong and where we should go from here..
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Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families
“Strips porn of its culture-war claptrap . . . Pornified may stand as a Kinsey Report for our time.”—San Francisco Chronicle Porn in America is everywhere—not just in cybersex and Playboy but in popular video games, advice columns, and reality television shows, and on the bestseller lists. Even more striking, as porn has become affordable, accessible, and anonymous, it has become increasingly acceptable—and a big part of the personal lives of many men and women.
In this controversial and critically acclaimed book, Pamela Paul argues that as porn becomes more pervasive, it is destroying our marriages and families as well as distorting our children’s ideas of sex and sexuality. Based on more than one hundred interviews and a nationally representative poll, Pornified exposes how porn has infiltrated our lives, from the wife agonizing over the late-night hours her husband spends on porn Web sites to the parents stunned to learn their twelve-year-old son has seen a hardcore porn film.
Pornified is an insightful, shocking, and important investigation into the costs and consequences of pornography for our families and our culture.
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Remotely Controlled: How Television is Damaging Our Lives
A startling exposé of Britain's growing addiction to television and why and what should be done to stop it, the author looks at the statistics that show television has become an obsession even more influential than parents inside the household. In this insightful and shockingly perceptive assessment of the relationship with the small screen, the author reveals the alarming reality of what television is actually doing physically, emotionally, intellectually, and socially. He provides evidence as to how television contributes to the rising global obesity rate by actually slowing our metabolic rate, stunts children’s brain development, and is responsible for over half of all rapes and murders in the industrialized world. .
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Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About It
Every concerned parent MUST have this book! Children throughout the developed world are suffering, with obesity, dyslexia, ADHD, and other serious ailments on the rise. And it’s not simply that our diagnostic ability has improved—there are very real and growing problems. Top literacy expert Sue Palmer examines the danger zones, from poor diet, lack of exercise, and sleep deprivation to symptoms emerging from our modern lifestyle of TV, computer games, and cell phones. This combination of factors, along with parents’ increasingly stressful lives, means that we are developing a toxic new generation, with its health and brains at risk. Here is the latest research from around the world, with advice for worried parents on protecting their families and ensuring their children emerge as healthy, intelligent, and happy adults. .
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The Antioxidant Save-Your-Life Cookbook: 150 Nutritious High-Fiber, Low-Fat Recipes to Protect Yourself Against the Damaging Effects of Free Radicals (Newmarket Jane Kinderlehrer Smart Food Series)
From the acclaimed nutrition expert and author of the Smart Food Cookbook series (over 200,000 sold) comes health insurance in every bite: delicious, time-saving, antioxidant-rich recipes, low in fat and calories, high in fiber and nutrients, with NO white flour, hydrogenated fats, or chemical additives. "Antioxidants are like guardian angels. . . . The more you have working for you, the better your chances of living longer in good health," writes Jane Kinderlehrer in her newest user-friendly cookbook. Here, she presents 150 family-and kitchen-tested recipes, explaining in each how the ingredients work to nutritionally protect you against virulent free radicals that can cause cancer and other diseases. The book also highlights the benefits of antioxidant-rich foods high in vitamins C, E, A, as well as beta-carotene. Ranging from delicious Raspberry Chicken to fluffy Sweet Potato Pancakes, these recipes will enhance your immune system, strengthen your bones, reinvigorate your love life, help you overcome fatigue, and much more. Separate chapters include recipes for breakfasts, side dishes and snacks, soups and stews, hearty main courses, dressings, dips, spreads and vinaigrettes. This collection is a must-have for every cook concerned with eating healthfully, preventing disease, and living a longer life..
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Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion
Autism: disease, disorder or difference? What causes autism - genes or environment? Can biomedical treatments cure autism, and are they safe? An increased public awareness of autism has resulted in a rising trend of diagnoses, creating the impression of an 'epidemic'. Many parents of children newly diagnosed with autism have been impressed by plausible theories blaming vaccines and other environmental causes. Many have also been captivated by claims that 'biomedical' treatments - including special diets and supplements, detoxification and medications - can achieve dramatic results. In "Defeating Autism", Michael Fitzpatrick, a family doctor and father of a son with autism, questions the scientific basis of environmental explanations of autism and exposes the incoherence of unorthodox 'biomedical' theories and therapies.This book reveals that these therapies are far from pioneering interventions and they remain unsubstantiated by scientific authorities. Campaigns promising to 'defeat or cure autism now' have attracted much support among parents struggling with their difficult children. But the crusade against autism risks dehumanising and stigmatising those who are identified as autistic and their families. This compelling book is essential reading for students and professionals working in the field of autism, as well as academics concerned with the public understanding of science and the treatment of scientific and medical controversies in the media..
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Raise the Bottom: How to Keep Secret Alcoholics from Damaging Your Business
Alcoholism is rampant, but due to its stigma, it is rarely discussed directly as a business issue. Raise the Bottom explains the real danger of alcoholism in the workplace -- the significant impact of alcoholic thinking and behavior, whether a person is under the influence or not. Raise the Bottom is a business book, not a recovery book. It covers Step Zero, the real beginning of any program of recovery. Raise the Bottom examines how alcoholics are secretly responsible for many different business problems in a variety of situations. The book takes readers from the preconceptions and cynicism about alcoholism typical of the general public, to the point of connecting the dots between the disease, the behavior, and the bottom line - and to propose effective steps to a solution. Part One discusses the problems created by alcoholism in the work environment, covering biological factors, definitions of alcoholism, and stages in the progress of the disease. Part Two shows how to identify alcoholics often long before the alcoholic himself is aware he has a problem. Part Three closes with concrete responses to the problem, including disenabling the alcoholic, and the other steps necessary to protect yourself and your business from the damage an alcoholic can cause and reduce the harm they do to themselves..
Price: $16.95
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