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Do clouds truly have silver linings? Betty Rollin answers with a resounding yes in this wise, moving, and funny book about the surprising upsides to life’s most challenging, painful, and seemingly insurmountable low blows. Rollin has been there. After being diagnosed with breast cancer more than thirty years ago–and again nine years later–she managed to find an astonishingly bright side to the darkness. She shares her often zany and unpredictable personal expe… More >>

Here’s the Bright Side: Of Failure, Fear, Cancer, Divorce, and Other Bum Raps

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Research shows that the educational outcomes forstate custody youth in the USA are poor. The primarymission of child protective services is the physicalsafety of children, and child welfare specialists arenot trained educators. Public education systems havehad difficulty in establishing effective programswithin youth shelters. This study contributes to ourknowledge base to improve outcomes for custodialyouth in such areas as grade retention, drop-outrates, and skill… More >>

Barren Refuge: Educational Failure Among ShelteredYouth in Oklahoma: Educational Challenges for Abused and Neglected Youthin State Custody: An Ethnographic Study