| Description |
xii, 243 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-243) |
| Contents |
Prologue: Jordan in Georgia -- Part I. Why don't you go back? -- The fugees -- The luck ones -- Shit show -- A more convenient season -- Imagine -- Shoo Baidein? -- Part II. Fifteen years in fifteen minutes -- Radical integration -- You can do better -- The art of teaching fugees -- The good of all -- Teaching children of truma -- Catching up from far behind -- Redefining success -- Epilogue: an opportunity like not other. |
| Summary |
"Luma Mufleh—a Muslim woman, a gay refugee from hyper-conservative Jordan—joins a pick-up game of soccer in Clarkston, Georgia. The players, 11- and 12-year-olds from Liberia and Afghanistan and Sudan, have attended local schools for years. Drawn in as coach of a ragtag but fiercely competitive team, Mufleh discovers that few of her players can read a word. She asks, 'Where was the America that took me in? That protected me? How can I get these kids to that America?'...Learning America is the moving and insight-packed story of how Luma Mufleh grew a soccer team into a nationally acclaimed network of schools—by homing in laserlike on what traumatized students need in order to learn. Fugees accepts only those most in need: students recruit other students, and all share a background of war, poverty, and trauma. No student passes a grade without earning it; the failure of any student is the responsibility of all. Most foundational, everyone takes art and music and everyone plays soccer, areas where students make the leaps that can and must happen—as this gifted refugee activist convinces—even for America’s most left-behind." |
| Subject |
Refugee children -- Education -- Georgia -- Clarkston.
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Refugees -- Georgia -- Clarkston.
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Mufleh, Luma.
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Soccer coaches -- Georgia -- Clarkston -- Biography.
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Sexual minorities -- Georgia -- Clarkston -- Biography.
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Immigrants -- United States.
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Arab Americans -- Georgia -- Clarkston -- Biography.
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| Genre |
Autobiographies.
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| Added Title |
One woman's fight for educational justice for refugee children |
| ISBN |
9780358569725 |
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0358569729 |
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