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This book examines disproportionality in education, focusing on issues of social justice for diverse and marginalized students. It addresses disproportionality as an indicator of biased practices and uses social justice as the frame for conceptualizing disproportionality historically and as a means to improve educational practice. Chapters explore the historical issue of disproportionality in education, outcomes experienced by racially and eth...

This book examines disproportionality in education, focusing on issues of social justice for diverse and marginalized students. It addresses disproportionality as an indicator of biased practices and uses social justice as the frame for conceptualizing disproportionality historically and as a means to improve educational practice. Chapters explore the historical issue of disproportionality in education, outcomes experienced by racially and eth...

In seinem in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzten Buch >Eleni< hat Nicholas Gage die tragische Geschichte seiner Mutter erzählt. Im griechischen Bürgerkrieg rettete Eleni ihre Kinder vor der Deportation, indem sie sich lieber foltern und erschießen ließ, als deren Versteck zu verraten. 1949 kamen der neunjährige Nicholas und seine Schwestern dann nach Amerika, am Pier erwartete sie ihr Vater, der ihnen und ihrer Mutter während der Kriegswirren nich...

Bold, stunning, vastly entertaining, this sweeping saga of the rich, powerful Golden Greeks who have dominated world shipping for more than a century digs deep into their humble beginnings, passionate private lives, creative business practices that brought them enormous fortunes, and conflicted efforts to penetrate high society while remaining strongly bound to their island values. The Bourlotas Fortune offers the most revealing inside view of...

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In 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist "camps" inside the Iron Curtain. Eleni Gatzoyiannis, forty-one, defied the traditions of her small village and the terror of the communist insurgents to arrange for the escape of her three daughters and her son, Nicola. For that act, she was imprisoned, tortured, and executed in cold blood. Nicholas Gage joined his father in Massachusetts at the age of nine and ...