When you're going through divorce, you have to make an overwhelming number of financial decisions. Should you sell the house? What happens to retirement benefits? How will you handle taxes?
Full of sensitive and practical advice, Divorce & Money guides you through the process of making these important decisions. It covers how to:
gain financial stability as a single person
The 8th edition provides the latest tax figures and data, plus expanded coverage of debts and bankrutpcy.
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"When you're going through divorce, you have to make an overwhelming number of financial decisions. Should you sell the house? What happens to retirement benefits? How will you handle taxes? Full of sensitive and practical advice, Divorce & Money guides you through the process of making these important decisions. It covers how to: determine the real value of the house, investments and other property divide debts set alimony and child support negotiate a settlement that's fair to both of you Bursting with practical strategies for surviving a divorce without going broke, the brand new 6th edition provides worksheets, charts, formulas and tables. It also includes new information on how to divide benefits like stock options and cafeteria plans. "
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Take it from me, this is the best book.......2006-02-22
All the dueling reviews below would have you wonder about the quality of both "Divorce and Money" books, so as an experiment I got both. It's pretty clear that this book (Nolo's) is the better one, hands down. The difference was evident in just minutes. Everything's presented in easy to read verbiage, the charts are easy to use, and the forms and checklists were really handy. Helped me and my ex make the split easier than I expected, frankly. Thank you for this book!!
My new favorite book!.......2004-07-13
Okay I might be exagerating but I did love this book. A friend recommended it after my husband and I decide to "part ways." I accidently picked up the other book with the same title and was not so thrilled with all the Get A Attorney advice, but then I realized my mistake and got this version -- it's SO helpful. It almost took me by the hand and showed me how to be less emotional than I would be when making decisions affecting how to split our property and bills up, and how to figure out child support.
My eyes glazed over.........FELT LIKE I WAS IN LATIN CLASS!!.......2004-03-03
Read both books and all the reviews of 2 books with basically the same name and if you want more information in a MUCH MORE user friendly, readable (in English) format at 1/2 the price buy the other book by Smith, Divorce and Money Everything you need to know. I read a review that the Smith book just wants you to hire expensive lawyers. NOTHING could be further from the truth. No matter what, you need a lawyer and this book tells you the same thing. It doesn't mean you have to be stupid! As a normal, middle class guy with a college education and MY OWN BUSINESS this book makes you feel like you are in Latin Class again. Do your self a favor and not only buy Smith's book on Money get her book on Children.......you will save lots of time and stress.
For my money, a better bet is............2004-03-03
....a newer book, "Divorce and Money: Eveything you need to Know," by attorney Gayle Rosenwald Smith. The newer book even has its own website, www.divorceandmoneybook.com, which allowed me to peruse the contents, view a video clip of the author on CBS, and check her calendar to see if she would be appearing at a book store near me. Well she was, and I got to talk to her in person, which was great! She's so knowledgeable and empathetic; her very human tone comes through in every page of her book. Gayle's book lists at $14.95 (but I got it for less!) vs. $24.50 for the other book. At a time like this, I need to hang onto every penny I've got. I'm really glad I bought Gayle's book, the information was up-to-date, thorough and invaluable. Why pay almost $10 more for an older book?
The best book available.......2004-01-30
Recently saw another book with this same title at the bookstore, so I picked up both. Of the two, the Nolo book was so much more helpful -- it assumes you want to handle most of the details yourself, and avoid lawyers, whereas the other kept talking about how to choose a lawyer (an expensive, time-wasting lawyer).
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Focusing on the role of library media specialists in assessing student learning, this is the first full-length book written to address its practical application in the school library media center. It is an important book for school librarians to consider as they address their role as "teachers" in schools and the accountability issues associated with that role. It places students at the center of the assessment equation and addresses the following topics as they relate specifically to school library instructional programs: purposes of assessment, essential elements of assessment, knowing what to assess, multiple methods for assessment, and management and communication of assessment results. The book's primary audiences are library media specialists and teachers in K-12 settings. It is also relevant for other educators, who are centrally involved in K-12 programs including district, regional and state library media coordinators, building level administrators, and library school educators. The authors cull from their own 30-year careers as library practitioners, university instructors, and workshop presenters to present doable, practical methods for the library media specialist to be involved in assessing student learning. Though this topic appears in the theoretical literature and is addressed in journal articles or chapters in contributed books, this is the first practical in-depth analysis for the school library field. Grades K-12.
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If you're a teacher or librarian - buy this book!.......2006-03-14
This concise practical book on assessment is a must have resource for every teacher, and especially the teacher/librarian. The purpose, essential elements, and all of the methods of assessment are discussed with a plethora of examples. This valuable book should be used in all credentialing programs. Well worth the money - and I can't say that about many "teacher" books.
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THE LIVES AND LOVES OF DAISY AND VIOLET HILTON follows the poignant life story of twin sisters who were literally joined at the hip, set against the tumultuous backdrop of America during the first half of the 20th century. Daisy and Violet and an unforgettable cast of show-business characters come alive on the pages of this carefully researched and sensitively written biography.
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Freak Royals (my cut review).......2007-10-11
F. Scott Fitzgerald, perceptibly hung over, possibly still drunk, eyed the Hilton sisters over breakfast at MGM Studios. Daisy and Violet had just strolled into the commissary, taking a single empty chair across from him. Daisy picked up a menu, and without looking at her sister, asked Violet what she planned on ordering. Fitzgerald turned pea-green, ran outside, and retched. The sisters were at MGM to star in the film Freaks.
Daisy and Violet Hilton were pygopagus conjoined twins, united by a "cord of flesh" near the base of their spines. As described in Dean Jensen's biography, The Lives And Loves Of Daisy And Violet Hilton: A True Story Of Conjoined Twins, they were also clever, beautiful, and eminently likable women. And yet, Fitzgerald's reaction to them was uncommon only in manifestation. For something in the sister's irregular form converted even their most trivial activities into enchantments. In merely wanting breakfast, Daisy and Violet inspire our unseemly fascination, exposing us as gawkers, or moralists, or miserable, inconsiderate drunks.
Born in England, Daisy and Violet were just infants when the Brighton press proclaimed the occurrence of "an extraordinary freak of nature." They were toddlers when championed by Harry Houdini. At sixteen, having conquered American midways, they attempted a transition typically blocked to "sideshow freaks": they tried to make it in Vaudeville. In their first performance, Daisy and Violet sang, played instrumentals, and charmed the crowd with tosses of brown curls. Then two young boys, dressed in tuxedoes, joined them onstage. Each took a twin by the hand. Music swelled and the foursome began to glide across the stage, "locked in a pas de quatre." The sold-out crowd erupted. They stood in applause. They cried "tears of joy." They dashed toward the box office to secure tickets for the next show.
Such reactions, sparked at the sight of something as natural as teenagers dancing, explain Daisy and Violet's legendary success. It also inversely illustrates the more common, less noble, response they elicited: dehumanization. Given away by their unwed, terrified mother, the twins grew up chattel to guardians whose parental interest stopped at exploitation and appropriation. Even their first memories, "the movements of the visitor's hands which were forever lifting our baby clothes to see just how we were attached," recall their tragic position: trapped between those who used them and those who wanted only to look. Their childhood was replete with threats of being sent to the "asylum for monster children." They spent most of their time confined in a room - lest someone catch a free glimpse. Years later, while in the office of the attorney who would eventually emancipate them, Daisy and Violet were recounting their upbringing when they were interrupted by sobbing. The stenographer had begun to cry.
Curiously, the empathy wrought by Jensen's faithful portrayal of Daisy's and Violet's lives is no prophylactic to the rubbernecking its details will inspire. It is easy to chastise the surgeons who wanted to saw the sisters apart, but upon the discovery that when Violet got drunk - which she often did - Daisy would get "a little buzzed," the teratologic glee is irresistible.
This conflict resonates loudest in Jensen's chapters discussing the sisters' love lives. Readers will no doubt be moved by Daisy and Violet's inability to find lasting love outside themselves. They will decry the twenty-one states that refused, on moral grounds, to permit Violet to marry. They will disdain the reporters who pressed their eyeballs to the keyhole of Daisy's bridal suite. They will blame the public responsible for this media circus when her introverted husband runs off. And yet, when the reader's friends discover the Hiltons were conjoined twins, and ask the question that everyone asks, the reader will will be quick to answer: Yes, Daisy and Violet had sex, lots of it. Even Jensen, unflaggingly sympathetic as he is, seems unable to resist this salacious urge, ending his story with Daisy and Violet's most enduring "trebling," a burial plot shared with a man whom they never met.
Had Daisy and Violet not been conjoined twins, their biography might well resemble that of those other Hilton sisters, circa 2050. The Hiltons sought and eventually rebuked public attention. The Hiltons learned those well-worn lessons of fleeting fame and wasted fortune. Such comparisons phosphoresce in Jensen's exposition, which can, at varying times, feel either rudimentary or dispensable. Yet, Jensen avoids melodrama. He evokes the Dickensian far more than he uses it as an adjective. And he is delightfully adept with anecdotes, a skill put to memorable use recounting a world populated by the likes of pugilistic bandleader Blue Steel; "flimflam man extraordinaire," Terry Turner; and a villain who actually named himself, Myer Myers. And besides, Daisy and Violet are not those other Hiltons. They were world famous: the Royal English Twins United, made singular by a slip of Mother Nature's hand, "grown together the way tomatoes on a vine sometimes do."
read in 1 day!.......2007-08-08
I just could not put this book down. These girls were vulnerable, tragic, and strong and heroic all at once. The author reports of a life I cannot imagine. Very well written and researched. DO NOT start reading this book unless you have all night to do so.
Daisy and Violet Hilton.......2007-05-13
I am directing a Musical based on their lives called " Side Show " at UCLA and the research material in this book was invaluable to me, even though I don't think the book is particularly well written. He does something some biographers are guilty of that I absolutely hate, and that is he'll write a private conversation he couldn't possibly have had access too or knowledge about as if it were fact...... but ignoring the faults in the writers style, the information in the book was a great help to my work in mounting this production!
HIGHLY recommended read........2007-03-18
Dean Jensen did a great job unearthing the facts and assembling the intimate life stories of the ORIGINAL Hilton Sisters, in his book, "The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton: A True Story of Conjoined Twins". His writing style is very easy to read and the story sucks you in early on. Although these sisters are looked upon as "freaks", the more you read about the challenges they faced, the more you see they are just two women searching for happiness and love.
As the mystery is unlocked, and intimate details are exposed something surprising happens, you find yourself rooting for the twins and genuinely caring about them. This book takes you on an emotional roller coaster ride detailing their lives of coming into this world a little different, entertaining millions internationally and dying virtually unknown. By the time you read about the accounts of their death, you feel like you've lost two good friends.
I was swept away in the descriptive writing of the vaudeville era, the glimpse into the sideshow life and how fickle the entertainment industry really is. It was unbelievable to learn that the twins helped the careers of many 'just starting out stars' like Bob Hope & Burns and Allen and how the great magician Harry Houdini taught them a technique to 'separate themselves'. The more you read about how extraordinary their lives were, the more you change your perception of how you view people who are different from you. Life handed them lemons, so they made lemonade and then some.
I highly recommend this book!
An Incredible Achievement !.......2007-02-26
I originally became intrigued by conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton after seeing the 1932 film "Freaks" back in the late 1980s. I subsequently read that they had spent their final years, and in fact are buried, in my own state of North Carolina.
When James Taylor reprinted the sisters' own autobiography in his publication "Shocked and Amazed," I eagerly ordered those issues. I was pleasantly surprised to learn in those pages that a gentleman named Dean Jensen was researching the sisters' lives, and that what he had discovered was a lot wilder than the euphemistic gloss the twins put on their own account of their adventures.
I began anticipating this book immediately. Even then, Jensen's work-in-progress seemed too good to be true, his subject(s) so esoteric and obscure a topic of interest, that I had to wonder if it would ever see publication. Time passed, my anticipation cooled off . . . and then out of the blue this year, an internet correspondent mentioned he'd just received his copy! A web search confirmed it had been out for several months already! A bit chagrined, I quickly ordered a copy for myself.
I have to say the long wait was justified by the degree of biographical detail Mr. Jensen put into his book. This is especially impressive considering how difficult it must have been to dig up the facts on these girls in whom any popular interest had gone cold long before the petite Daisy and Violet were laid to rest in a single casket in a grave plot that was theirs only out of charity.
Take, for instance, the intimate account of their birth, almost a hundred years ago, in a Brighton England slum. It reads as though Mr. Jensen was an eyewitness!
Daisy and Violet emerge in Jensen's biography as complex, flawed human beings, far from the mere "victims-of-fate-and-avarice-to-be-pitied" their own memoir paints them as. Their behavior is often far from admirable though they will still engage your sympathies.
This book is fascinating and more than once jaw-dropping. I have to say, "Thank you, Mr. Jensen; your book was worth the wait."
-- Micah Harris
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The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950 (Blacks in the Diaspora)
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This study of Boston's West Indian immigrants examines the identities, goals, and aspirations of two generations of black migrants from the British-held Caribbean who settled in Boston between 1900 and 1950. Describing their experience among Boston's American-born blacks and in the context of the city's immigrant history, the book charts new conceptual territory. The Other Black Bostonians explores the pre-migration background of the immigrants, work and housing, identity, culture and community, activism and social mobility. What emerges is a detailed picture of black immigrant life. Johnson's work makes a contribution to the study of the black diaspora as it charts the history of this first wave of Caribbean immigrants.
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Stories of Young Pioneers in Their Own Words.......2005-03-29
Since my early childhood I have been fascinated by stories of pioneers who went west to settle the wilderness. The idea of leaving one's friends, and everything they owned, except a few things they could carry, or put in a wagon or a handcart, and heading west into unknown territory has always seemed almost unbelievable. "What was going on in their minds?" was the question that intrigued me.
I think this is an unprecedented work and has no equal anywhere.
To be sure she could catch the flavor of the pioneer experience she even traversed every inch of the three major pioneer trails, sometimes riding and sometimes walking.
This magnificent compilation of references is the result of researching over 500 documents including letters, diaries, and news reports. An exhaustive piece of research!
I marveled at the fourteen-year-old boy who was cutting timber in 1845, hauling it nine miles, then boating it across a river.
I laughed at the way eleven-year-old Edwin Petit dressed up as a girl (in Huckleberry-Finn fashion) to stow away on a wagon train. I was awed by the courage of youngsters like the Sager children who became orphans once when their parents died, on the trail in 1844, and again a few years later when Narcissa and Marcus Whitman, who had adopted them, were killed.
Many of the children's writings begin with "I can see," or "I can still see", then they paint the most vivid pictures of "shimmering heat waves", dark masses of buffalo", and "empty plains with their rolling land waves". They were incredibly literate and poetic in their descriptions.
I spent 37 years in public school work, as a teacher, and later as a counselor, and it is my opinion that this book should be found in every school library, both elementary and secondary. Many adults will also love it, as I do. My hat is off to Mrs. Kimball for a job well done.
Richard Rogers, Ed.D
Written for children; interesting for adults, also........2005-02-24
"I can see why this book won three awards. I read "Stories of Young Pioneers, In Their Own Words" in one night. It is a fabulous, swift-moving read. Favorite things about the book: The history of black pioneers: seeing the Native American "threat" into perspective, and the profiles of individuals such as Welborn Beeson, Lizzy Flake, and the Donner, Reed Children. I wonder how much time the author spent finding a photograph of a black pioneer, (Lizzy Flake) I was grateful for the photos of the landmarks, especially Independence Rock, which would have been difficult to picture without the photo. I felt like I was there on the trail.
I appreciated how the author incorporated all three trails--The Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails--and that the illustrations enhance the history by putting us there on the trail. She must have had to pare down mounds and mounds of material to create an exciting narrative.
I wanted more, more: I wanted to know more about the brave youngsters like eight year old Nicolean Bertlesen who had to stop in St. Louis and earn money to complete her journey, and those like the orphaned Sager children who were adopted by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman; and orphaned again when the Whitmans were killed by the Cayuse.
This author has done a great job getting a variety of quotes and using original quotes from those outstanding young pioneers.
A Mormon history book.......2004-11-24
Although an interesting little book, it is primarily a Mormon history book written from a child's perspective with most documentation from Mormon sources. If you are looking for a book the covers a broader spectrum of material, this is not the book for you.
Young Pioneers in Their Own Words Rocks!.......2001-03-24
My mom got me this book and I loved it. I couldn't stop reading it even when I was jumping on the trampoline. I thought it was great to read about kids like me, who were pioneers and had to go through such hard times. My favorite story in the book is one where they took some cows across a river and they had to seperate the moms and the babies and they didn't know how they would get them both across, but the moms and babies wouldn't leave each other and just swam across to stay together. What I liked most is learning how much these kids had to do on their own and how grown up they were. They worked just as much as the adults and some of them even had to take care of their families when their moms and dads died. I thought it was great that this book was made up from things these kids actually wrote and told about, so you could tell what they thought. I wish there were more books about how kids really are and what it was like to live in a different time. I think everyone should read this book.
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We address two overarching questions in this book:
· What is worth learning? · How do we make this learning happen?
In dealing with these questions, we emphasize the following important points: · Inquiry as a critical approach to learning. · Student outcomes as the target in teaching. · Library media specialists as key partners in curriculum planning.
The individual chapters deal with the following aspects of inquiry learning and the collaborative work involving the library media specialist. Each chapter is organized around key questions with explanations and examples throughout. · Chapter 1 provides an overview of the school environment in which inquiry learning is the focus. It describes how such a school differs from a conventional one and the role of the library media specialist in this school. · Chapter 2 defines the essential elements of an inquiry curriculum. It emphasizes the importance of questions that drive substantive learning. · Chapter 3 deals with school teams working collaboratively. It examines what makes these partnerships survive and thrive. · Chapter 4 zeroes in on two possible approaches to inquiry-focused instruction: 1) starting with themes or large concepts and 2) starting with problems or issues. It provides detailed explanations and scenarios of how both approaches are used in inquiry-focused projects. · Chapter 5 centers on assessing student learning in inquiry-focused projects. It describes different assessment tools and gives examples of the tools in practice. · Chapter 6 presents instructional strategies that can be used in these projects. It addresses the importance of dealing with diverse student needs and how technology provides a valuable tool for teaching and learning. · Chapters 7 through 9 highlight examples of inquiry-focused units, one each at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Each example is organized in a template format for easier reading. · Chapter 10 returns full circle to the notion of building a school-wide approach to inquiry learning. It identifies specific action strategies to consider and a detailed scenario of how the strategies might be used in a school.
An extensive bibliography identifies the references used in this book. The list also provides a useful starting point for more information on various aspects of inquiry learning.
Who Might Use This Book Inquiry learning requires planning and teaching as teams. While we highlight the collaborative effort of classroom teachers and the library media specialist, we also acknowledge the contributions of other critical team members including the technology coordinator and the administrator. For teams designing inquiry learning, the book provides guidelines for creating learning that results in important student achievement. It identifies research-based strategies and tools to strengthen collaborative instructional planning and presents practical suggestions for integrating information literacy with the school's academic program.
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Buffalo pottery is constantly growing in popularity as a collectible. This documentary volume preserves all available background information and lists and pictures many of the firm's products. Here, in eleven concise, information-packed chapters, with well over 400 pieces illustrated, are all the facts, statistics, and details. Every kind of ware the firm is known to have made is discussed or pictured. Here, too, is the fascinating background story of the John D. Larkin mail-order company which founded the pottery that made Deldare, Albino, blue Willow, advertising and commemorative pieces, game sets, pitchers and jugs and other articles dating from its early days that are cherished and highly valued today.
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The Book of Buffalo Pottery.......2000-01-20
Excellent source of information for anyone interested in collecting Buffalo Pottery. It even has a well organized section of values of various pieces.
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The summer that Viney is eleven years old is extraordinary. It takes her out of school and puts her under the wing of Missy Violet, a well-loved midwife whose wise and warm ways help teach Viney about the business of catchin" babies. Suddenly, Viney must learn about roots and herbs and their medicinal purpose, understand the contents of Missy Violet's "birthin" bag," and contend with a snooty peer and wild, irrepressible cousinCharles Elister Paxton Nehemiah Windbush. And all this before she actually helps to deliver a single baby! At turns scary, funny, and exhilarating, the rhythm of Viney's rural life in the South quickens as she embraces her apprenticeship and finds her own special place as Missy Violet's "best helper girl." Hot jiggetty!
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The real "world's oldest profession".......2005-05-02
When I first heard of the concept of this book I was skeptical. Another children's book about midwifery? Goodness me, didn't we already have "The Midwife's Apprentice" to fill that particular gap? Why on earth would the world need more than one book on the painful process of birthing babies? But after a moment of such ludicrous thoughts, I came to my senses. After all, we're talking about one of the most difficult and underappreciated professions in the world. The kind of job that's never received the respect of the medical community (in spite of having preceded it) or even the general modern populace. And this is the kind of job that's universal. Wherever there are humans, there are midwives. Heck, thinking in such terms as that, it's amazing that there aren't MORE children's books about it. Where's the Chinese midwife tale? The Roman? The Pict? Till such stories come, we must be content with what we have. And what we have is a lovely little number called, "Miss Violet and Me". A slim 100 page novella, the book had its flaws and fumbles, but altogether it's a good egg. A nice little tale.
Viney hasn't a clue where babies come from. All she knows from experience is that once in a while her mama gets fat and then the amazing Missy Violet comes in the house and leaves them with a beautiful new baby. Unfortunately, Missy doesn't work for free and Viney's father owes her a child or two. The fairest method of payment turns out to be Viney herself. Turned into Missy Violet's own personal helper, Viney has the joyful task of going out and helping her idol "catch a baby" or two. In the process, she learns the truth of birth, how to cope in difficult situations, and eventually how to save the day. Set in the rural South around the 1930s, the book tells short enjoyable tales about the rarely recorded lives of African-American midwives.
I commend the book fully for its subject matter. First time author Barbara Hathaway based the tales on the stories told by her mother about a relative who'd served as a southern midwife in the 30s. Through the book we get a peek into the inner workings of those professionals that relied on useful herbs and home remedies to produce healthy babies and mothers. Unfortunately, the book is only 100 pages. Just as you begin to learn a little more about Missy Violet and Viney, the book stops with a screech. I couldn't help but feel that there was so much more to say in this story. So much more to tell. Also, I got the really clear sense that white people get off pretty darn easily. Every white person in this book seems to be exceptionally broadminded towards their African-American neighbors. There's hardly a whiff of prejudice, let alone Jim Crow. And though I probably wouldn't have wanted the book to indulge in lengthy speeches against the evils of the world, a little realistic glimpse into just how HARD it was to be black in the South in the 30s wouldn't have been out of place.
So credit towards a great story and interesting characters. Points off for an overabundance of nice whites and zippo recognition of the reality of the setting. As a first book, "Missy Violet and Me" has lovely potential. Author Hathaway is certain to produce more fine books in the future. Here's hoping they're longer.
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This volume brings together researchers and participants from diverse groups, reflecting the different ways in which the field of multicultural literacies has been interpreted. A common theme across the chapters is attention to the ways in which elements of difference--race, ethnicity, gender, class, and language--create dynamic tensions that influence students' literacy experiences and achievement. The hope of the editors is that readers will build on the experiences and findings presented so that the field of multicultural literacies will have a greater impact of literacy research, policy, and practice.
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