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Remember the nothing class of Home Ec? Turns out it’s got a past.

The Secret History of Home Economics by Danielle Dreilinger

January 8, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

What do chemistry, business, politics, and social justice have in common? I’m betting that no one would have automatically though “Home Economics!” but that’s exactly what The Secret History of Home Economics show. It all started with Catharine Beech, Olivia Washington (3rd wife of Booker T.), and Ellen Swallow in the late 1800s where educational opportunities for women were few and far between. By contextualizing studying chemistry as women as a way to develop better household practices, these ladies and more like them developed one […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: American History, Danielle Dreilinger, Education, home ec, home economics, non fiction, politics, Social Justice

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: American History, Danielle Dreilinger, Education, home ec, home economics, non fiction, politics, Social Justice ·
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Hop on the bus, Gus You don’t need to discuss much…just say your ABCs

The Library Bus by Bahram Rahman

July 8, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Library Bus by Bahram Rahman will see a paperback edition in August of 2022. This story is about how some Afghan girls are able to achieve an education. Once a week, a young girl’s mother, in the dark of the morning, takes a special bus with no seats but a lot of books off to a village and the refugee camp. Pari’s (our young narrator) mother also teaches the children the English alphabet. We, and Pari, learn a little about why this is happening, […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Religion Tagged With: Afghanistan, Bahram Rahman, Books & Libraries, Diversity & Multicultural, Education, Gabrielle Grimard, Kabul, Middle East, Social Themes, women's studies & history

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:357 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Religion · Tags: Afghanistan, Bahram Rahman, Books & Libraries, Diversity & Multicultural, Education, Gabrielle Grimard, Kabul, Middle East, Social Themes, women's studies & history ·
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Sssshhh! It’s a secret!

Secret Schools: True Stories of the Determination to Learn by Heather Camlot

May 12, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

If it had not been for a secret schooling system, we would not have had Marie Currie or Janusz Korczak (born Henryk Goldszmit). If it had not been for secret schooling, Japanese immigrants and their decedents would have lost their language and culture in Brazil. If it had not been for secret schooling in a South African prison, the man that would become of the first elected black leader of the country, Nelson Mandela, would probably have not been. If it had not been for […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Education, Erin Taniguchi, Heather Camlot, schooling, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:219 · Genres: Children's Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: Education, Erin Taniguchi, Heather Camlot, schooling, Social Themes ·
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Must love cats

P Is for Purr by Carole Gerber

April 19, 2022 by BlackRaven 1 Comment

P Is for Purr and for Perfect, and Packed, and Powerful and Pretentious. And only three of those descriptor words are correct to describe this book (if you cannot guess, it is not pretentious). This is an alphabet book that takes basic or common things about cats (they purr for P) and some educational things (X for Xanthus Av Jostedalsbreen or Norwegian Forest Cat) and makes a cute book for cat lovers of all ages. Carole Gerber and Susanna Covelli must love cats. A lot. […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Alphabet, animals, Carole Gerber, Cats, Education, Susanna Covelli

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:155 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: Alphabet, animals, Carole Gerber, Cats, Education, Susanna Covelli ·
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She wanted to be a Doctor but became a Lawyer and changed a few things along the way.

Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight: Patsy Takemoto Mink and the Fight for Title IX by Jen Bryant

January 19, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Did you know that Title IX was not just for athletes? It started out as not forty words that said that women had to be treated equally in all matters: education, and sports alike. Of course, that was only one thing Patsy Takemoto (later Patsy Mink) would do in her life. A young Patsy lived in Maui. She knew her family had come to this country for a better life and that meant (though she was not sure at the time) an education. At four-years-old […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Sports Tagged With: discrimination, Education, hawaii, Japan, Jen Bryant, Patsy Mink, Patsy Takemoto, politics, Social Themes, Toshiki Nakamura, United States - 20th Century

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:23 · Genres: Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Sports · Tags: discrimination, Education, hawaii, Japan, Jen Bryant, Patsy Mink, Patsy Takemoto, politics, Social Themes, Toshiki Nakamura, United States - 20th Century ·
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And here I always wanted a snow day

When the Schools Shut Down : A Young Girl's Story of Virginia's "Lost Generation" and the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Decision by Yolanda Gladden

January 4, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

While When the Schools Shut Down : A Young Girl’s Story of Virginia’s “Lost Generation” and the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Decision is a slightly romantic telling of the several years after Brown v. Board of Education when one community went out of their way to make sure their black citizen did not get an education, this book is still strongly showing how much people want to learn, and how far they are willing to go to get what they want. After the decision […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: African American & Black, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Decision, Dr. Tamara Pizzoli, Education, Keisha Morris, school, Yolanda Gladden

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: African American & Black, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Decision, Dr. Tamara Pizzoli, Education, Keisha Morris, school, Yolanda Gladden ·
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