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"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; They are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."

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Elisheva Hannah Levin
Quemado, New Mexico, United States
is an Educational Anarchist who has been a geologist, biologist, and teacher, and now lives the quiet life on a ranch in New Mexico with her husband, the Engineering Geek aka the EG, and her son, the Cowboy, who runs the cattle operation. A Libertarian, Educational Anarchist and Gadfly, Elisheva writes about anything that catches her fancy. When she isn't blogging, she is doing research for her dissertation, entitled Autism Spectrum Disorder Policymaking in New Mexico: An Ethnographic Case Study. She expects to graduate in May of 2017. She is the mother of a daughter and a son, and was adopted as a ranch mama to another adult daughter. She takes great pride in their independence and successes, and is entirely smitten with her granddaughter, Charlotte, and her two grandsons, Roman and Zachary.
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  • Elisheva: Stop the Islamization of America by Pamela Geller
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  • The CIT: The Cowboy at Work: All About His Job and How He Does It by Fay E. Ward
  • The Engineering Geek: Surrender is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations

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  • The Accidental Blogger
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  • The Thinking Mother

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Favorite Books about Gifted/Twice-Exceptional Kids

  • Asperger Syndrome in the Family: Redefining Normal by Liane Holliday Willey
  • Barefoot Irreverence: A Collection of Writings on Gifted Child Education by Jim Delisle
  • Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome: A User's Guide to Adolescence by Luke Jackson
  • In the Mind's Eye: Visual Thinkers, Gifted People with Dyslexia and Other Learning Difficulties, Computer Images and the Ironies of Creativity by Thomas G. West
  • Losing Our Minds: Gifted Children Left Behind by Deborah l. Ruf
  • Misdiagnosis and Duel Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults by Webb, et. al.
  • Once Upon a Mind: The Stories and Scholars of Gifted Child Education by Jim Delisle
  • Some of My Best Friends Are Books: Guiding Gifted Readers from Pre-school to High School by Judith Wynn Halstead
  • Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey through Autism by Dawn Prince-Hughes
  • The Edison Gene: ADHD and the Gift of the Hunter Child by Thomas Hartmann
  • The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen
  • The Oasis Guide to Asperger Syndrome: Advice, Support, Insight and Inspiration by Bashe and Kirby
  • Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports of My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin

Ragamuffin Studies has been nominated in Alesandra's Homeschool Blog Awards

Ragamuffin Studies was nominated in Alesandra's HBA contest...

...and in the HSBA in the "Live What You Believe" Category.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Kol Nidre

Posted by Elisheva Hannah Levin at 9:59 PM
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