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In other words, it often looks like single-sex schools are doing a better job educating kids, but they aren'tI hated reading before middle school when I read this bookCopy Email to a friend On Facebook Share on Facebook On Twitter Share on Twitter But in most cities, that revival has largely bypassed communities of concentrated poverty, like large swathes of Chicagos predominantly African-American South Side or mostly Hispanic East CharlotteThe year's coolest, most laid-back empowerment jamSingle-sex schooling also hasnt been shown to offer a bump in girls attitudes toward math and science or change how they think about themselvesSince the start of this academic year, black college students have been targeted in a rash of attacksat an Ivy League university in New York, at a public college in Illinois, at a Catholic college in Pennsylvania, and at a flagship state university in MichiganUse the list below to browse NPR's Best Books Of 2012 recommendationsA new working paper titled Do Parents Value School Effectiveness? suggests that parents similarly opt for schools with the most impressive graduates rather than figuring out which ones actually teach bestThe story goes something like this: a low-level bank employee has an affair with a high school drum major and is infused with such confidence that she takes over the entire bank131 (1st movement)"Beethoven's moving and melancholy meditation is based on a melody that surges and then falters time and time again in a Sisyphean struggleImpossible sounds manipulated so expertly that they subtly synchronize breathing, heart beating, head nodding, mind racingReview Courage And Curiosity: The Best Heroines Of 2012 December 27, 2012 This year's literary heroines aren't defined by their desire to love or be loved or even to be especially lovableNas, "The Don""20 years in this game, lookin' 17," crows Nasir Jones, sidestepping the question of how to age gracefully in hip-hopKishi Bashi, "Bright Whites"An infectiously joyful one-man symphony of violins and voices inventively looped to create overlapping melodies that flutter like butterflies inside your chestIn the mid-19th century, the United Statesand to a lesser extent other industrializing nations such as England and Germanydeparted from this historical patternTake the work of Erin Pahlke, for exampleWe've again enlisted the help of some of our favorite writers and book lovers to help recognize those works for the latest in The Atlantic Wire's Year in Review, this time for the "grown-up reads." Most of these are books published this year, though we've occasionally paid homage to works from previous years that we rediscovered or read for the first time in 2012Watch Video The Threat of Objects Lost in Space Emily Buder 100 million pieces of space junk currently orbit our planet at 17,500 miles per hour
December 24, 201210:00 AM ET Twitter Most Popular Presented by SWNS A Catfishing With a Happy Ending Jeff Maysh Emma Perrier was deceived by an older man on the interneta hoax that turned into an unbelievable love storyDespite the horror stories shed heard about online dating, Emma, 33, downloaded a matchmaking app called ZooskEnlarge this image This mix is best enjoyed in warm weather, near a large body of water, with your old school boombox turned up to 11As he told me this summer,"Writing scary stuff for kids is totally the opposite of writing horror for adultsThough it was "an especially strong year for books," saysTobias Carroll, managing editorofVol.1 Brooklyn, "I'm going to go with Leni Zumas'sTheListeners, which follows a damaged onetime musician haunted bythejarringly violent incidents that have punctuated her lifeErykah BaduWhat would the great Afro-Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaria who wrote this tune in 1959 have thought of this new version by Robert Glasper and Erykah Badu? Proof, once again, that a well written song is the perfect palette for the adventurous spiritBut thats only true if the two tanks are filled with the same substance(Also, someone make this happen, please!) John Talabot, "Destiny" featYet as central as currency has been to so many civilizations, people in societies as different as ancient Greece, imperial China, medieval Europe, and colonial America did not measure residents well-being in terms of monetary earnings or economic outputGlobal News Notes The Masthead Photo Video Events Writers Projects Magazine Magazine Current issue All issues Manage subscription Subscribe More More Create account Your account Sign in Sign out Newsletters Audio iOS App Life Timeline Events Books Shop View all Subscribe Search Search Quick Links James Fallows Ta Nehisi Coates Manage subscription Search The Atlantic Quick Links James Fallows Ta Nehisi Coates Manage subscription The Books We Loved in 2012 Adult fiction and nonfiction were pretty phenomenal this yearNorton & Company, list price $15.95 Among Others, by Jo Walton, paperback, 302 pages, Tor Books, list price $14.99 The Double Game, by Dan Fesperman, hardcover, 355 pages, Knopf, list price $26.95 Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein, hardcover, 343 pages, Hyperion Book CH, list price $16.99 Short Stories To Savor On A Winter WeekendRecommended by Jane Ciabattari Blasphemy, by Sherman Alexie, hardcover, 465 pages, Grove Press, list price $27 What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, by Nathan Englander, hardcover, 207 pages, Knopf, list price $24.95 The Doctor's Wife, by Luis Jaramillo, paperback, 158 pages, Dzanc Books, list price $14.95 Dear Life, by Alice Munro, hardcover, 319 pages, Knopf, list price $26.95 Battleborn, by Claire Vaye Watkins, hardcover, 288 pages, Riverhead Hardcover, list price $25.95 Graphic Novels That Flew Under The Radar In 2012Recommended by Glen Weldon The Crackle of the Frost, by Lorenzo Mattotti and Jorge Zentner, hardcover, 118 pages, Fantagraphics, list price $19.99 Little White Duck: A Childhood in China, by Andres Vera Martinez and Na Liu, paperback, 96 pages, Graphic Universe, list price $9.95 Drama, by Raina Telgemeier, paperback, 233 pages, GRAPHIX, list price $10.99 Gloriana, by Kevin Huizenga, hardcover, 96 pages, Drawn and Quarterly, list price $19.95 Saga 1, by Brian K"But in all seriousness, this book is beautifully written with such a touching story about growing up, what it means to love and learning to accept things that you may not be used toShe also sees a strong resurgence in political themes, with a focus on civilizations on the brink of transformation or collapse d53ff467a2
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