Off Magazine Street
Off Magazine Street

Author: Ronald Everett Capps

Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9781596921320

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The lives of Bobby Long, content drowning his life in alcohol and tolerant woman, and his partner, Byron Burns, take a bizarre turn when their female companion dies and they find themselves putting up her young daughter, Hanna.

The Street
The Street

Author: Ann Petry

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2013-08-23

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 0547525346

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES “How can a novel’s social criticism be so unflinching and clear, yet its plot moves like a house on fire? I am tempted to describe Petry as a magician for the many ways that The Street amazes, but this description cheapens her talent . . . Petry is a gifted artist.” — Tayari Jones, from the Introduction The Street follows the spirited Lutie Johnson, a newly single mother whose efforts to claim a share of the American Dream for herself and her young son meet frustration at every turn in 1940s Harlem. Opening a fresh perspective on the realities and challenges of black, female, working-class life, The Street became the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies.

Street Data
Street Data

Author: Shane Safir

Publisher: Corwin

Published: 2021-02-12

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1071812661

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Radically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doing Education can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of the focus being on "fixing" and "filling" academic gaps, we must envision and rebuild the system from the student up—with classrooms, schools and systems built around students’ brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellectual potential. Street data reminds us that what is measurable is not the same as what is valuable and that data can be humanizing, liberatory and healing. By breaking down street data fundamentals: what it is, how to gather it, and how it can complement other forms of data to guide a school or district’s equity journey, Safir and Dugan offer an actionable framework for school transformation. Written for educators and policymakers, this book · Offers fresh ideas and innovative tools to apply immediately · Provides an asset-based model to help educators look for what’s right in our students and communities instead of seeking what’s wrong · Explores a different application of data, from its capacity to help us diagnose root causes of inequity, to its potential to transform learning, and its power to reshape adult culture Now is the time to take an antiracist stance, interrogate our assumptions about knowledge, measurement, and what really matters when it comes to educating young people.

Getting Off the Street
Getting Off the Street

Author: Charles Massimo

Publisher: Cjm Fiscal Management Incorporated

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9780990549017

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Charlie Massimo knows what Wall Street is hiding because he spent two decades on the front lines at major financial firms. Feeling disillusioned by his employers' profit-driven motives, Massimo left Wall Street to start his own firm. Getting Off the Street offers honest, realistic investment advice based on Massimo's experience helping hundreds of clients achieve their financial vision. His method, called structured investing, has helped clients weather devastating market crashes while investment giants suffered major losses, but you won't hear about it from Wall Street advisors because they can't profit from it. Told with Massimo's signature warmth, clarity, and wisdom that can only come from three decades on and off "The Street," this book will help you achieve your financial goals and build the life you desire.

Street Kids
Street Kids

Author: Kristina E. Gibson

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2011-05-09

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0814732895

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Street outreach workers comb public places such as parks, vacant lots, and abandoned waterfronts to search for young people who are living out in public spaces, if not always in the public eye. Street Kids opens a window to the largely hidden world of street youth, drawing on their detailed and compelling narratives to give new insight into the experiences of youth homelessness and youth outreach. Kristina Gibson argues that the enforcement of quality of life ordinances in New York City has spurred hyper-mobility amongst the city’s street youth population and has serious implications for social work with homeless youth. Youth in motion have become socially invisible and marginalized from public spaces where social workers traditionally contact them, jeopardizing their access to the already limited opportunities to escape street life. The culmination of a multi-year ethnographic investigation into the lives of street outreach workers and ‘their kids’ on the streets of New York City, Street Kids illustrates the critical role that public space regulations and policing play in shaping the experience of youth homelessness and the effectiveness of street outreach.