{"title":"Urban","description":"\u003cp\u003eUrban education focuses on the opportunities and challenges unique to teaching and learning in city settings. This subject explores educational methods, policy discussions, and social factors affecting students and schools in urban areas. Readers will find resources that address issues such as equity, access, community involvement, and the influence of city environments on classroom experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo refine your understanding of urban topics within education, consider narrowing your exploration by specific issues like multilingualism, youth culture, or educational reform in metropolitan regions. Comparing urban education with other major areas in education, such as rural or special education, can also offer fruitful contrasts for research or practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"desk-was-already-here-poems-9798218714826-new","title":"The Desk Was Already Here: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Desk Was Already\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHere\u003c\/strong\u003e is the debut poetry collection from Shamon Lawrence, a writer and educator answering a question Countee Cullen posed nearly a century ago: Why would God make a poet Black and bid him sing? This collection is the song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the quiet ache between classroom bells and long silences, Lawrence reckons with the impact of structures that never asked him to speak. His poems trace the sacred architecture of desks. Those inherited, assigned, built over, or broken down. Spanning from the desks where Black boys are told to be still, to the ones where Black men are asked to perform miracles as teachers, The Desk Was Already Here traces the sacred, strained lineage between student and educator.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith nods to Hughes, Cullen, and the Black Baptist tradition, Lawrence builds a lyrical record of what school never teaches but always enforces: the burden of where you're placed, the pressure of what you're expected to become, and the quiet acts of care that keep Black students and teachers going.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection is part hymn, part indictment, part field note from an educator who knows the difference between compliance and communion. In these pages, the desk is not merely a setting, but a witness. A relic. A wound. A calling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Desk Was Already Here, Lawrence dares to imagine what it means to teach, to write, and to live as if the desk were hallowed, and to sing anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INDEPENDENT CAT","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51543457235234,"sku":"9798218714826-new","price":12.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9798218714826.jpg?v=1776380890"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/collections\/education-urban.oembed","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}