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This book for middle-grade readers gives 15 real-life examples of people and communities from all over the world that established secret schools or learning circles because of their thirst for knowledge and to ensure their basic rights.
"SECRET SCHOOLS is about the power of education and how far some have had to go to offer it and to access it. This highly readable and inspiring book introduces middle-grade readers to 15 real-life examples of people...
3) One girl
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Inspired by the idea of empowering girls around the world to demand their right to education, one girl lights a small spark which catches fire and eventually lights up the whole world.
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"As the newly appointed minister of education in Sierra Leone, David Moinina Sengeh assumed that the administration he served—not to mention his family and friends—shared his conviction that all girls belong in the classroom. He was shocked to learn that many of those closest to him, including a member of his own family, were against lifting a long-standing policy banning pregnant girls from school. Radical Inclusion is the dramatic narrative...
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"Eighteen-year-old Khadidja Issa, who fled war-torn Sudan at the age of five and lived for nearly a dozen years inside a squalid refugee camp, had just one wish: to attend school. By the time she arrived in Pennsylvania in 2015, she had only a sixth-grade education, just like her mother, whose schooling was also cut short by war. But that was about to change - or so Khadidja thought. She believed she would break the cycle of poverty in her family...
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"In 1954, after the passing of Brown v. the Board of Education, the all-White school board of one county in south central Virginia made the decision to close its public schools rather than integrate. Those schools stayed closed for five years. While the affluent White population of Prince Edward County built a private school—for White children only—Black children and their families had to find other ways to learn. Some Black children were home...
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