Battered Love Karen A. Pomerinke Parents become agents of change

Parents become agents of change for children's success when they nurture six critical skills

participatory budgeting involves spending real public money on the priorities that the community identifies

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Cross-national comparisons suggest that America's early reliance on women teachers quickened and extended the reach of schools across the nations social classes

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Battered Love Karen A. Pomerinke Parents become agents of changeWeems's pioneering study explores the puzzling ways in which the Hebrew prophets' portrayals of divine love, compassion, and conventional commitment often became associated with battery, infidelity, and the rape and mutilation of women. She wrestles with the prophets' rhetoric and sexual metaphors to uncover Israelite social structures, asking, "What is implied about women, men, and God by the language that the prophets use to describe the covenant