From Street Smart to School Smart
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-6110-5 (ISBN)
This non-fiction story is about 17-year-old Jewels Odom and 13 other ex-teen prostitutes, drug dealers and gang bangers, a story that is now still being relived by thousands of girls throughout our inner cities and towns. There are an estimated 900,000 girls, ages from 10 and older, nationwide and 20 million worldwide who are involved in prostitution and sex trafficking,
This story gives Jewels and her 13 "sisters" a pulpit to speak to other lost girls looking for an escape from what they call “streets of hell.” What separates Jewels from her “street sisters” is her ability to survive and succeed -- actually going to college to return as a teacher at “juvie.”
This true story ends with a mixture of successes and failures, but as always, Jewels is the one who has the final say when she tries to connect with Maya Angelou, the famous poet, to be the graduation speaker.
David Sortino has over 40 years of experience as a teacher, administrator, educational consultant and neuroscientist with at-risk youth. In addition, he has a graduate degree from Harvard University, where he studied with his advisor, the late Dr. Lawrence Kohlberg. He is the father of two girls.
Preface
Acknowledgements
CHAPTER ONE: The Worse Part of the Game
CHAPTER TWO: Your Dignity
CHAPTER THREE: Brown Leather Shoes
CHAPTER FOUR: A Place of Extremes
CHAPTER FIVE: A New Teacher Principal Man
CHAPTER SIX: Our Ghetto Brains
CHAPTER SEVEN: One of Our Greatest Challenges
CHAPTER EIGHT: Something Unusual Happened?
CHAPTER NINE: His Gentle Voice and Kind Face?
CHAPTER TEN: The Sincerely of His Lecture
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Selling us on Rules
CHAPTER TWELVE: Playin’ the Dozins
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Not a Piece of Cake
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Ghetto Heads
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Pitfalls that Confront Males
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Calm Our Anger and Rage
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Take off the Band aides
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Talk Therapy
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Mr. Buddha Man
CHAPTER TWENTY: Young Sexual Creatures
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Talk the Talk
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: The Sucking Couch
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: When I Became a Hooker?
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Showing Your Wares
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: When You Don’t Have a Future?
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: To Be a Snitch
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Colonel Sanders and Road Warrior
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: It never Leaves You
CHAPTER TWENTY- NINE: Sisters of the Streets
CHAPTER THIRTY: His Sacred Cow?
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: A Future Path to the Streets
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: The Shadow of Death
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: John Doone
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: Man on the Sidewalk
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: Andrea
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: Ghetto Heads
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: Fightin’
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: Maria Montessori
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: Track Meet
CHAPTER FORTY: Best Ribs Around
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: Top Dog or Shop Bully?
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO: Can’t Always Run from Failure
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE: Cold Darkness
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR: GED Tests
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE: The Johnson Rest Home
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX: Pulling for us to Succeed
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN: Two Inches from the Gutter?
CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT: The Real Game of Life Begins
EPILOGUE: A Circle
About the Contributors
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.06.2021 |
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| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 220 mm |
| Gewicht | 358 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4758-6110-9 / 1475861109 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4758-6110-5 / 9781475861105 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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