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Educated: A Memoir – Tara Westover

ByCatherine Read March 11, 2018March 17, 2018

(March 2018) “I am not the child my father raised. But he is the father who raised her.” A gripping memoir. From the opening passage to the final sentence, I was pulling for Tara Westover to make it. Raised in a Mormon family in Idaho that eschewed modern medicine, public education and was deeply fearful…

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Miseducated – Brandon Fleming

ByCatherine Read June 28, 2023July 1, 2023

(June 2023) This is such a powerful book. It’s not just the individual journey of Brandon P. Fleming, which is an odyssey of Homeric proportions; it’s how he challenged accepted beliefs about education and changed the lives of Black children by creating opportunities. It’s about the nexus of scholarship and culture. The first part of…

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