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\"When Tess is asked to run a classmate's campaign for student council, she agrees. But when the candidates are the children of politicians, even a high school election can uncover life-shattering secrets\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Gratitude and Learning
When Herold started her post-undergraduate career as a classroom educator, she recalls stating in her job interview that she wanted to make a difference in her students' lives. Today that strikes her as very Pollyannaish, but she was a twenty-two-year-old newly degreed English major with a Behavioral Science concentration who chose to read fairy tales, fantasy, science fiction, and romance as her elective reading. She was energetic and optimistic. She probably still is several decades and a different career later. It's rather ironic that when she was teaching, she took for granted the thanks of appreciative parents and notes and gifts of current and former students. She was immersed in the daily work of lesson planning, grading, and reading the history textbook to keep ahead of her students. It wasn't until she was teaching history that she took a college history course.
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Jasmine Zumideh needs a win
After lying on her college admissions, seventeen-year-old Jasmine needs to win her senior class election, but the Iran Hostage Crisis explodes across the nightly news and her opponent begins to stir up anti-Iranian hysteria at school causing Jasmine to reconcile with her identity in way she never has before.
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Alert Collector: Looking Inside: What Coloradans Who Are Incarcerated Like to Read
A recent episode of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning podcast Ear Hustle titled “A Little Streets, a Little Romance, a Little Deception,” explores the reading tastes of incarcerated people in San Quentin, a California prison. The episode was so funny and insightful it inspired me to write about what people read in our Colorado prison libraries, with the hope that it will provide collection development guidance about what books this underserved population loves to read. Donations are a lifeblood to so many prison libraries, but unfortunately much of what is sent by well-meaning donors doesn’t meet the needs of the readers I serve.
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Grace goes to Washington
On a school field trip to Washington, D.C., student council member Grace and her classmates learn about the three branches of the federal government, how school government operates, the qualities of effective leadership, and how to be a good citizen.
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Science v. Fiction: Gen Z’s Skepticism of Disinformation Used to Justify Anti-Trans Legislation in the USA
Introduction
US state legislatures introduced more than 500 anti-LGBTQ + bills in 2023, many of which specifically target trans youth. Anti-trans legislation is often supported by disinformation on topics such as gender-affirming healthcare. This study examined the extent to which Gen Z young adults believe such disinformation and the factors that predict belief.
Methods
Surveys were used in late 2022 and early 2023 to measure disinformation belief in a convenience sample of
n
= 103 undergraduate psychology students of different gender identities, SES, ethnicities, religious beliefs, and political views. Predictors included measures of conventionalism, such as social conservatism and religiosity, as well as transphobic attitudes, news consumption, and trust in government.
Results
Large majorities of participants doubted several pieces of disinformation, such as the pernicious “grooming” assertion; expressed uncertainty about some, such as the gender/sex distinction; and were split on others, such as the alleged athletic advantage of trans girls. Male, socially conservative, and religious individuals tended to exhibit stronger disinformation belief, as did those who expressed more trust in government. Regression analysis showed transphobic attitudes to strongly predict anti-trans disinformation belief, above and beyond demographic factors.
Conclusions
The results are consistent with prejudice-driven reasoning, stressing the need for prejudice reduction along with misinformation mitigation strategies like fact checking.
Policy Implications
The USA should reform media policy to counter the threat of disinformation and more widely adopt trans refuge policies that protect access to care and freedom from prosecution, and education policies that normalize gender diversity beginning in childhood.
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The race is on
Frank and Joe vote to solve the mystery of who sabotaged their friend's election speech in this Hardy Boys Secret Files adventure.
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Reclaiming the Vision Thing: Constructivists as Students of the Future
This article argues that constructivists committed to reflexivity should be students of the future. It notes that both conventional and critical approaches do not sufficiently engage with the problem of future uncertainty in the process of identity formation and neglect its behavioural implications. Against this backdrop, the article regrounds constructivism in a temporal ontology and the argument that humans, in the face of contingency, seek to establish visions of a meaningful future. It discusses how visions, as utopias and/or dystopias, define possibilities of being and thereby provide actors with a sense of direction, and it differentiates between \"robust\" and \"creative\" visions to highlight two ways in which such possibilities are manifested. In doing so, the article encourages constructivists to become more attentive in identifying the visions which enable and bind creative agents in the process of realization.
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She's the liar
Entering Brookside Academy in the sixth grade, Abby is determined to reinvent herself as a confident and popular \"Abbi,\" but she is shocked to find out that her older sister, Sydney (eighth grade) has already crafted a new identity as the president of the \"Committee,\" the all-powerful student organization that controls extracurricular life and rules the student body through intimidation--and inevitably the two clash, because they both know what the other is hiding, and soon they are hopelessly tangled up in the lies they have created for themselves.
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STARSHIP TROOPERS: MAKING FASCISM SEXY AGAIN
Perhaps one of the first writers to break science fiction out of niche confines, Robert Heinlein brought intellectual caliber to a genre that was struggling to be taken seriously. His big ideas helped push fledgling sci fi toward the mainstream, while contributing fundamental offerings to modern understandings of everything from libertarianism to sexuality. Heinlein also offered a fresh perspective of the concepts and values behind militarism--a word nearly always used pejoratively, but conceptually revered by Heinlein, whose works remain the only science fiction books on the US military' official reading list, and whose writings are recommended at most military academies. Staunchly opposed to denuclearization and what he saw as the coddling of Americans into a generation of pacifist weaklings, Heinlein was loudly booed during his speech at the 34th World Science Fiction Convention when he declared that people could have peace or freedom but not both.
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