{"id":2021,"date":"2009-09-23T20:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2016-03-21T21:43:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T21:43:46","slug":"get-em-while-theyre-fresh-new-books-for-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2009\/09\/23\/get-em-while-theyre-fresh-new-books-for-september-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ‘Em While They’re Fresh: New Books for September 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s officially fall\u2014if you listen carefully, you might be able to hear the post-summer whimpering of kids consigned to classrooms again. At one high school in New York, however, that also means creating comic books about their lives. In Manga High<\/em>: Literacy, Identity, and Coming of Age in an Urban High School<\/em><\/a>, Michael Bitz \u201cexplores the convergence of literacy, creativity, social development, and personal identity\u201d and includes students\u2019 original art and writing from his four-year study.<\/p>\n

While hooking teens on writing via comics makes sense, something tells me that math might be a harder sell. Jo Boaler, a professor of mathematics education at Stanford University, sees this as a crisis. After following student progress and observing successful strategies, she articulates a new course of action in What\u2019s Math Got to Do with It?<\/em>: Helping Children Learn to Love Their Least Favorite Subject\u2014and Why It\u2019s Important for America<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Moving on to my own most favorite subject, Worlds of Sound: The Story of Smithsonian Folkways<\/a><\/em> tells of Moses Asch\u2019s lifelong quest to document \u201cfolk expression\u201d in all its forms\u2014folk, bluegrass, country, jazz, blues, and sound recordings that included tree frogs, the poetry of Langston Hughes, train locomotives, and civil rights sit-ins. His label\u2019s amazing treasures became part of the Smithsonian collection after his death (and are available in our Smithsonian Global Sound<\/a> database).<\/p>\n

To see if any of our other new books sound good, check out the displays at the Lincoln Park or Loop Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s officially fall\u2014if you listen carefully, you might be able to hear the post-summer whimpering of kids consigned to classrooms again. At one high school in New York, however, that also means creating comic books about their lives. In Manga High: Literacy, Identity, and Coming of Age in an Urban High School, Michael Bitz \u201cexplores <\/p>\n

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