Want something marvelous to read this summer? I highly recommend the following:
The Help by Kathryn Stockett takes place in 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi. It explores the reality of segregation when a group of white women decide that their black maids can’t use the family’s bathroom because of racial prejudice. The thinking of that time period is explored and we are exposed to the bare roots of racism. Powerful stuff!
Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn take us into the third world to explore the degradation of women and efforts to improve their treatment in Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Issues such as prostitution, female circumcision, AIDS, poverty and deaths during childbirth are addressed. Beautifully written and full of people
you won’t forget.
How can technology improve the educational process? Many of our students have handheld devices that are faster and more useful than the equipment available in our schools. This book talks about the movement to online classes and better use of technology. The educational system in this country has not quite caught up to the 21st century. Gives you something to think about.
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