In 1996 a record one million-plus bankruptcy cases were filed in the United States. In this important book, an eminent legal authority provides an accessible introduction to and evaluation of the federal bankruptcy system governing these filings. Karen Gross describes existing bankruptcy law, assesses what is actually happening in practice, and makes specific―and controversial―recommendations for reform. Gross explores the varying and often conflicting interests of debtors, creditors, and community in the bankruptcy system. She justifies the idea of a "fresh start" for individual and business debtors by analyzing notions of forgiveness and rehabilitation in a civilized society. She offers a new perspective on how to treat certain of the creditors that bankruptcy touches, substituting a principle of equality of outcome for the principle of equality of treatment. She also presents an original argument about community interests, contending that they should be given serious weight in the necessary balancings that make up bankruptcy law and policy, and provides specific statutory amendments to achieve this goal. Offering a humanitarian approach to bankruptcy rather than the law and economic approach commonly used, this book places legal issues of bankruptcy in their social context and opens the dialogue about bankruptcy to lawyers and nonlawyers alike.

Failure and Forgiveness: Rebalancing the Bankruptcy System (Yale Contemporary Law Series)

Gross, Karen

Business

Yale University Press

Breakaway Learners: Strategies for Post-Secondary Success with At-Risk Students

Honorable Mention for 2018 Delta Kappa Gamma Educators Book Award
This powerful book explores how institutions of higher education can successfully serve students who have experienced poverty, toxic stress, trauma, or abuse. Introducing a new concept called “lasticity,” Karen Gross offers an approach to addressing inequities that focuses on the many positive attributes these students have acquired due to their low socioeconomic status (SES) and other life factors. Drawing on her experience as a college president, the book outlines practical steps that institutions can take to create structures of support and opportunity that build reciprocal trust. Students must trust their institutions and professors, professors must trust their students, and eventually students must learn to trust themselves. Breakaway Learners is must reading for anyone interested in closing the gap between low-SES and high-SES students in today’s colleges and universities. The strategies presented can also be adapted to the K–12 setting. Visit the book’s website at breakawaylearners.com.
Book Features:
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<li>Addresses flagging efforts to improve the educational progress of students who have experienced poverty, toxic stress, or abuse. </li>
<li>Focuses on the institutions that serve students as opposed to efforts to fix failing students.</li>
<li>Provides concrete strategies and describes their actual impact on individuals and institutions.</li>
<li>Offers strategies that can be replicated and scaled and can be adapted to the K–12 educational landscape.</li>
<li>Includes images, some of which were created by a breakaway learner.</li>
</ul>

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Teachers' College Press

This powerful book explores how institutions of higher education can successfully serve "breakaway" students first-generation, low-income students who are trying to break away from the past in order to create a more secure future. The gap between low-SES and high-SES students persists as efforts to close it have not met with great success. In this provocative book, Gross offers a new approach to addressing inequities by focusing on students who have succeeded despite struggling with the impacts of poverty and trauma. Gross draws on her experience as a college president to outline practical steps that post-secondary institutions can take to create structures of support and opportunity that build reciprocal trust. Students must trust their institutions and professors, professors must trust their students, and eventually students must learn to trust themselves.Book Features:* Addresses flagging efforts to improve the educational progress of low-income students.* Focuses on the institutions that serve students as opposed to efforts to fix failing students.* Provides concrete strategies and describes their actual impact on individuals and institutions.* Offers strategies that can be replicated and scaled and can be adapted to the K 12 educational landscape.* Includes images, some of which were created by a breakaway learner.

This book explores how educational institutions have failed to recognize and effectively address the symptoms of trauma in students of all ages. Given the prevalence of traumatic events in our world, Gross argues that it is time for educational institutions and those who work within them to change their approaches and responses to traumatic symptoms that manifest in students in schools and colleges. These changes can alter how and what we teach, how we train teachers, how we structure our calendars and create our schedules, how we address student behavior and disciplinary issues, and how we design our physical space. Drawing on real-life examples and scenarios that will be familiar to educators, this resource provides concrete suggestions to assist institutions in becoming trauma-responsive environments, including replicable macro and micro changes. Book Features: <ul> <li>Focuses on trauma within the early childhood-adult educational pipeline.</li> <li>Explains how trauma is often cumulative, with recent traumatic events often triggering a revival of traumatic symptomology from decades ago.</li> <li>Provides clarifications of currently used terms and scoring systems and offers new and alternative approaches to identifying and remediating trauma.</li> <li>Includes visual images to augment the descriptions in the text.</li> </ul>

Trauma Doesn't Stop at the School Door: Strategies and Solutions for Educators, PreK–College

Schools & Teaching

Mending Education: Finding Hope, Creativity, and Mental Wellness in Times of Trauma

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Wang, Edward K. S.

Mental Health

The post-Inaugural Women’s March on January 21, 2017 was, in a word, remarkable. Across the globe, millions of people gathered to share their concerns about how our world was changing and how the values we hold dear were being threatened. One of the striking features of the marches, in addition to the absence of violence and the presence of men and women and children of all ages and stages, of all races and ethnicities, were the signs.  These signs — as varied as the marchers themselves — messaged loudly and clearly.  The signs spoke to the concerns we confront and the pressing need to speak up and out. But, the signs also were a message to and for our children and our children’s children — we need to insure that they inherit a world of which we can be proud and in which they can exist with decency and respect and grace. The people at the marches — many  with children or grandchildren in tow — were signaling to the world: let’s teach our children well. That is our responsibility. That is our charge. That is our obligation.

Teach Our Children Well: Why the January 21, 2017 Marches Matter

Politics & Social Sciences

Wraga, Debbi

Women's Studies

Northshire Bookstore

A prequel to the Lady Lucy series, youngsters are introduced to Lucy and some of her animal friends. In this book, she goes in search of a giraffe, one animal she has never seen. Through simple word use, repetition, and hide-and-seek, this book will become a favorite. Importantly, too, the story messages the importance of respecting diversity at all levels.

Are You A Giraffe

Children's Books

Animals

ShiresPress

Lady Lucy's Ghost Quest is the 4th book in the Lady Lucy's series about a multi-racial heroine who becomes a knight in the Middle Ages. In this beautifully illustrated sequel, Lady Lucy and her friends Dillon (the dragon) and Tapestry (the unicorn) travel all the way from England to Vermont to save a vacated but spectacular mansion occupied by ghosts. In a story filled with charm, humor and excitement, Lady Lucy demonstrates yet again the power of the possible, the capacity to find creative solutions to difficult situations and the recognition that what we fear might not be so dangerous after all. Join her and her friends on this amazing new Quest! You won't be disappointed. Forthcoming Book: Lady Lucy's Dinosaur Quest

Lady Lucy's Ghost Quest

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Books by Gross, Karen

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Failure and Forgiveness: Rebalancing the Bankruptcy System (Yale Contemporary Law Series)

Breakaway Learners: Strategies for Post-Secondary Success with At-Risk Students

Breakaway Learners: Strategies for Post-Secondary Success with At-Risk Students

Trauma Doesn't Stop at the School Door: Strategies and Solutions for Educators, PreK–College

Trauma Doesn't Stop at the School Door: Strategies and Solutions for Educators, PreK–College

Mending Education: Finding Hope, Creativity, and Mental Wellness in Times of Trauma

Mending Education: Finding Hope, Creativity, and Mental Wellness in Times of Trauma

Teach Our Children Well: Why the January 21, 2017 Marches Matter

Are You A Giraffe

Lady Lucy's Ghost Quest