Advocates of religious schooling have frequently had to answer the charge that what they supported was un-American. In a book that is more than just a history, Jones tries to make sense of that charge by tracing the development of religious schooling in America over the last 125 years. He explores the rationale for religious schooling on the part of those who choose it for their children and in terms of its impact on communities, and he considers the arguments of those who criticize such schools for undermining efforts to promote national unity. The book focuses on the gradual embrace of sectarian schooling by different religious communities in America, particularly Catholics, Jews, and later, conservative Protestants (mainly in the form of homeschooling). It also considers Muslim schools, not currently a force in private schooling or the subject of much debate, but perhaps next in line to make their case for a place in America's educational landscape.
Near the end of the 19th century, publicly financed, publicly administered schooling emerged as the default educational arrangement for American children. But this supremacy has not gone unchallenged. The sectarian schools that, in fact, predate public education in America have survived, even thrived, over the past century. Multiple religious communities, including those that opposed sectarian schooling in earlier generations, have now embraced it for their children.

Religious Schooling in America: Private Education and Public Life

History

Jones, Steven L.

Americas

Praeger

Jack Trice was working to earn a degree and go south to help fellow African Americans when tragedy struck.

Football's Fallen Hero: The Jack Trice Story (Cover-To-Cover Informational Books: Sports)

Children's Books

Sports & Outdoors

Perfection Learning

Jack Trice was working to earn a degree and go south to help fellow African Americans when tragedy struck.

Football's Fallen Hero - The Jack Trice Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Stanley, Alan D.

Regional U.S.

ISBN # 9780789154873-Red Tails: WORLD WAR II'S TUSKEGEE AIRMAN - In 1941, an experitmental training plan for black aviators began in Alabama. These men became some of the best pilots in the Army Air Corps.
 RL 5.2 - GRL V - LEX 650

The Red Tails: World War II's Tuskegee Airmen (Cover-to-Cover Books)

Medical Language Accelerated approaches medical terminology not as words to be memorized but as a language to be learned. If you treat medical terminology as a language and learn how to read terms like sentences, you will be able to communicate clearly as a health care professional and will be a full participant in the culture of medicine. Memorizing definitions is equal to a traveler memorizing a few phrases in another language to help during a brief vacation: It will help a traveler survive for a few days. But if one is going to live in another culture for an extended period of time, learning to speak and understand the language becomes essential.

Medical Language Accelerated

Medical Books

Cavanagh, Andrew

Medicine

McGraw=Hill

Acquiring Medical Language approaches medical language not as words to be memorized but as a 
language to be learned. This text teaches students to break down words into their composite parts 
and exposes students to all the relevant information (the root, its meaning, its use), so they see how 
it relates to the other roots in the context of the body system.

Acquiring Medical Language

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McGraw–Hill Education

Loose Leaf for Medical Language Accelerated

Business & Money

Economics

Loose Leaf for Acquiring Medical Language

Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record

Arts & Photography

Music

Feral House

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