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Diversity in Research in Action is an essential resource for educators and policy makers who are committed to transforming and invigorating public education in the United States and around the world.There is almost universal agreement that we cannot go back to a pre-Covid world. Our capacity to shape the future for all our children will depend upon our re-imagining the ways in which they are educated. Their prospects and the realization of the...

Family Literacy presents the stories of six families, each having a child considered by the parents to be a successful reader and writer.

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Family literacy initiatives are ubiquitous in the U.S., Canada and many countries in Europe, and in many economically advantaged countries family literacy programs are available for refugees and economic migrants, especially mothers and children learning new languages and life skills so that they can survive and thrive in the new places that have become their home. Similarly, countries such as Afghanistan, Nepal, and Sub Saharan Africa offer v...

Toodle-oo Ruby Blue! Two little girls have been playing together and now it is time for one of them to go home. Saying goodbye is hard for little kids. Sometimes it's a child's mother or father leaving for work, sometimes it's the loss of a grandparent. Little tragedies as well as big tragedies can be huge problems for little kidThese days when the whole world is wobbly, saying goodbye can be especially difficult. It's the reason at Garn Press...

Toodle-oo Ruby Blue! Two little girls have been playing together and now it is time for one of them to go home. Saying goodbye is hard for little kids. Sometimes it's a child's mother or father leaving for work, sometimes it's the loss of a grandparent. Little tragedies as well as big tragedies can be huge problems for little kids.These days when the whole world is wobbly, saying goodbye can be especially difficult. It's the reason at Garn Pre...

She died within seconds of falling. She could see the shadows that went with the echoes of screams from up above, but the patterns of light and the fading sounds were nothing more than that. There was not time to think about them, to name them or to say, 'There's lovely', but that is how she felt in those last moments of her life." Rosie's Umbrella is about love and loss, forgetting and remembering, losing one's self and becoming someone you n...

ROSIE'S UMBRELLA - NEW 2017 SECOND EDITION "She died within seconds of falling. She could see the shadows that went with the echoes of screams from up above, but the patterns of light and the fading sounds were nothing more than that. There was not time to think about them, to name them or to say, 'There's lovely', but that is how she felt in those last moments of her life." Rosie's Umbrella is about love and loss, forgetting and remembering, ...

During the 2016 election President Donald Trump entered into a pact with the NRA "To make America free again". Adam Winkler, a law professor at the University of California-Los Angeles states, "They are tight with Trump Administration. They have their people in place and they know exactly what they're going for." Already Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), who was instrumental in defeating the 2013 Assault Weapons Ban bill, has had a bill read twice a...

Teaching without Testing: Assessing the Complexity of Children's Literacy Learning by Denny Taylor is the second book in Garn Press Women Scholars Series. This book revisits Taylor's seminal and influential work based on her Biographic Literacy Profiles Project. Teaching without Testing: Assessing the Complexity of Children's Literacy Learning is a timely book that challenges the scientific assumptions of standardized testing in developing eff...

Bio-punk. Weird literature. A sci-fi fantasy that is frighteningly real. Split Second Solution is a dystopian urban novel set in New York City in 2022 that predicted the rise of Trump (the Ginger Tom) and anticipates his fall. Here's a review:From the opening scene I felt I was reading something like a Miyazaki masterpiece. The descriptions are so vivid that only his genius talent for animation could capture them. Just as Howl's Moving Castle ...

In an imaginary conversation at Café Griensteidl in New York City twelve venerable women scholars outdo nine very rich dangerously misguided men of enormous power. Bill Gates appears and so does Sir Michael Barber of Pearson, along with Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth and Dorothy Lintott of Alan Bennett's History Boys. Scenes from Isaac Asimov's Nightfall and Italo Calvino's Daughters of the Moon are folded in. Sarah Montague of BBC's Hardtalk, ...

Denny Taylor's conclusions confirm many teachers' doubts about America's mania for standardized tests, and serve as a signal to teachers and administrators that a reliance on test results can be more than misleading, it can be a hazard to the child.

Part One is one of betrayal and a path that leads into darkness. The path traces the author's life from sixteen to twenty-seven years old, and starts with the first two women he dated. He was Catholic then, and lonely. Part Two chronicles his time with Carolyn: how they met, how the Lord transferred all the love he had for the first woman he dated to Carolyn. It's about how she gave him four wonderful children, only to find out she had ca...

Part One is one of betrayal and a path that leads into darkness. The path traces the author's life from sixteen to twenty-seven years old, and starts with the first two women he dated. He was Catholic then, and lonely. Part Two chronicles his time with Carolyn: how they met, how the Lord transferred all the love he had for the first woman he dated to Carolyn. It's about how she gave him four wonderful children, only to find out she had cancer ...

She died within seconds of falling, " Rosie's Umbrella begins in 1955. "She could see the shadows that went with the echoes of screams from up above, but the patterns of light and the fading sounds were nothing more than that. There was not time to think about them, to name them or to say, 'There's lovely', but that is how she felt in those last moments of her life as she fell down the old mine shaft." Living a life of privilege in Boston ...

She died within seconds of falling, " Rosie's Umbrella begins in 1955. "She could see the shadows that went with the echoes of screams from up above, but the patterns of light and the fading sounds were nothing more than that. There was not time to think about them, to name them or to say, 'There's lovely', but that is how she felt in those last moments of her life as she fell down the old mine shaft." Living a life of privilege in Boston ...

What would it take to make Earth a child safe zone? Nineteen Clues: Great Transformations Can be Achieved through Collective Action makes the case that there are two threats to our children that impact every aspect of their present and future lives. The first threat to our children is the hostile take over the US public education system. Noam Chomsky calls it, "the campaign to destroy those parts of the education system that enrich the lives o...

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Rat-a-tat-tat! I've Lost My Cat! is a picture story book written by renowned literacy scholar Denny Taylor to entertain and be great fun for children learning to read. When read aloud the story hums, and the rhythm of the highly predictable text makes it easy for children to read. The paintings of the charismatic characters and the irresistible cats are bold and brilliantly painted by the acclaimed conceptual artist, Shelton Walsmith.