A murdered millionaire, several wealthy prime suspects prepared to defend themselves at any cost, a homicide commander determined not to ruffle any important feathers, and a chief of police with a history of appeasing the power elite in the District of Columbia all make Murder On The Gold Coast a wonderful read. Readers of mystery fiction are usually comforted by the notion that crime doesn't pay; that the good are rewarded for their virtue; and that the bad are punished for their wickedness. However, Barbara Fleming's second offering in the Matthew Alexander Mystery Series questions readers' beliefs about good and evil, crime and punishment, and who pays the piper when the final account is taken. Her smart, strong-willed, fearless young hero, Lieutenant Matthew Alexander, takes the reader on a marvelous journey as he solves the Murder On The Gold Coast in his usual brash, in-your-face style. His investigative skills are truly tested as he attempts to solve the homicide of one of the District of Columbia's richest real estate developers in the home of the detective's former girlfriend.

Murder on the Gold Coast (A Matthew Alexander Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Barbara Fleming

Mystery

Silver Maple Publications

A rare publishing event, A Summer Remembered will be enjoyed by both young people and adults alike. A Summer Remembered tells the charming story of an African-American childhood in the Appalachian region of Western North Carolina. A delightful coming-of-age memoir, A Summer Remembered is the true story of the summer of 1956 when the author turned twelve years old, and his first-cousin Ike, who is already twelve, comes to visit for the whole summer. Ike is sent to Morganton, away from his hometown of Durham, North Carolina, because during the school year he came under the influence of a gang of tough boys. He is sent to spend the summer with his grandfather, DePapa, who is strict, morally upright, and church going. Ike's parents also hope that he will benefit from the good behavior of his cousin Johnny, the author. As the story reveals, its not clear who has influenced whom by the time the summer is over. A Summer Remembered also tells the story of the African-American community that has lived in the Appalachian region of Western North Carolina since slavery. It specifically recounts how one African-American family in this community, the Flemings, emerged from slavery to build a strong family line that still survives.

A Summer Remembered

Biographies & Memoirs

John E. Fleming

Community & Culture

Chasing Isfet in the District: A Matthew Alexander Mystery

Fleming, Barbara

This book investigates the following question: Why do foreign students who major in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields at U.S. colleges and universities get the best education money can buy while the U.S.’s own African-American students get the worst at all levels of the American education pipeline? On the face of it this is not an easy question to answer; but it is certainly a question that deserves an answer, an answer that looks across the landscape of issues confronting African-American families as they aspire and attempt to educate their children but often fail to do so through no fault of their own. Based on the data analyzed in this document, it is clear that America is operating dual national school systems—one for the affluent and well-to-do and one for the working class and the poor. There is a significant difference between the average reading scores achieved by U.S. students at both the 75th and 90th percentiles and the average reading scores at the 25th and 10th percentiles. African American students' average scores on the reading and mathematics scales of the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), i.e., the Nation's Report Card, fell into the low end of the 25th percentile which means that a significant number of Black children scored in the 10th percentile, the lowest percentile of national scores. The dismal performance of many Black, poor White, and other minority children on the reading and mathematics scales of the 2019 NAEP indicates that the U.S. is, in effect, operating two school systems: one for affluent, upper middle-class suburbanite families and the other for poor urban and rural families; and this split is pulling the entire elementary and secondary education enterprise of the country down.\nAccording to 2019 NAEP results from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department of Education, this split academic achievement among U.S. elementary and high school students is also evident from the reading scores of low-income students inasmuch as the scores of poor children have literally gone down over the past 10 years while the reading scores of more affluent children have gone up over time. In October, 2019, both the Secretary of Education and the Director of the National Center for Education Statistics that administers the NAEP decried the average reading scores of U.S. 4th and 8th graders on the 2019 NAEP. The Secretary stated that: “Two out of three of our nation’s children aren’t proficient readers”. The Associate Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) which administers the NAEP similarly stated in an NCES press release in October of 2019 that: "…. In fact, over the long term in reading, the lowest-performing students—those readers who struggle the most—have made no progress from the first NAEP administration almost 30 years ago".\nWith respect to scores on one international assessment measure--the 2015 TIMSS, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study--the average mathematics scale score for 4th graders who attended high-poverty schools where 75% or more of the students were eligible for Free or Reduced Price Lunch (FRPL) was 499 points while the average score of 4th grade students who attended schools where 10% or less of the students were eligible for FRPL was 600 points. The poorest students in the U.S. scored 100 points lower than the most affluent students. The same relative difference between 4th grade students was found on the 2019 TIMSS. Moreover, the same relative differences were also found between 8th grade students who attended high-poverty schools and those who attended more affluent schools. The size of African American students' academic deficits do not diminish between the 4th and 8th grades which means that they are cumulative and the deficits show up later in high school and college.

Desperately Searching for Higher Education among the Ruins of the Great Society, Volume I: America's Two National Elementary and Secondary School Systems: One for the rich and one for the poor

Education & Teaching

Fleming Ph.D., Barbara

Schools & Teaching

African American Mothers: Their Children and Their Poverty in America in the First Quarter of the Twenty-First Century (Desperately Searching for ... the Ruins of the Great Society Volume I)

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

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