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Greg Mortenson · 420 pages
From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian's efforts to promote peace through educationIn this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan af
Teach with Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from The Freedom Writers
Erin Gruwell · 272 pages
In this memoir and call to arms, Erin Gruwell, the dynamic young teacher who nurtured a remarkable group of high school students from Long Beach, California, who called themselves the Freedom Writers, picks up where The Freedom Writers Diary (and the movie The Freedom Writers) end and catches the reader up to where they are today. Teach with Your Heart will include the Freedom Writers' unforgettab
Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard
Laura Bates · 306 pages
One Child
Torey L. Hayden · 251 pages
Hayden recounts her battle to uncover the keen intelligence and touch the emotions of a troubled, sexually molested six-year-old girl who abused a younger child and was placed in her class for retarded preadolescents while awaiting space in a state institution.
The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
Adam Braun · 272 pages
This the story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life. The author began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful Wall Street career. But while traveling he met a young boy begging on the streets of India, who after bein
Creating Room to Read
John Wood · 290 pages
The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive's quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of books. He strove to bring the lessons of the corporate world to the nonprofit sector--and succeeded spectacularly. Now, he explains his vision and the story of his startup.
Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington · 192 pages
Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment of African Americans in the post Reconstruction period. "Up From Slavery" is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington's life and work, which has been the source of inspiration for all Americans. Washington reveals his inner most thoughts as he transi
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb · 311 pages
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous re
Confessions of a Bad Teacher: The Shocking Truth from the Front Lines of American Public Education
John Owens · 244 pages
An explosive new look at the pressures on today's teachers and the pitfalls of school reform, Confessions of a Bad Teacher presents a passionate appeal to save public schools, before it's too late. "An explosive new look at the pressures on today's teachers and the pitfalls of school reform, Confessions of a Bad Teacher presents a passionate appeal to save public schools, before it's too late. Wh
Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids
Nicholson Baker · 727 pages
Nicholson Baker tells us all about the time in 2014 he worked as a substitute teacher in the Maine public school system.
In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: Confessions of an Accidental Academic
Professor X. · 258 pages
A caustic expose of the deeply state of our colleges-America's most expensive Ponzi scheme. What drives a former English major with a creative writing degree, several unpublished novels, three kids, and a straining marriage to take a job as a night teacher at a second-rate college? An unaffordable mortgage. As his house starts falling apart in every imaginable way, Professor X grabs first
Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had
Brad Cohen, Lisa Wysocky
One Day, All Children...: The Unlikely Triumph Of Teach For America And What I Learned Along The Way
Wendy Kopp · 190 pages
Since its inception in 1990, the Teach for America program has placed recent college graduates in two year teaching positions in low income and rural areas. In this text, Wendy Kopp, the program's founder, recounts her experiences from developing the initial idea during her senior year at Princeton, through struggles to keep the program going, and Teach for America's current successes.
Death at an Early Age
Jonathan Kozol · 242 pages
The story of the year the author spent teaching in a predominantly black school in Boston.
Life Is So Good: One Man's Extraordinary Journey through the 20th Century and How he Learned to Read at Age 98
George Dawson, Richard Glaubman · 280 pages
Radical: Fighting to Put Students First
Michelle Rhee · 286 pages
A teacher in inner-city Baltimore, chancellor of the Washington, D.C. schools, and the founder of the advocacy organization StudentsFirst shares her eighteen-year mission to prioritize the interests of children through education reform.
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin · 338 pages
The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan's treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountai
To Teach: The Journey, in Comics
William Ayers, Ryan Alexander-Tanner · 128 pages
"This graphic novel brings to life William Ayers's bestselling memoir To teach : the journey of a teacher, third edition. From Ayers's early days teaching kindergarten, readers follow this renowned educational theorist on his 'voyage of discovery and surprise.'"--Cover, p. [4].
The Water is Wide
Pat Conroy · 260 pages
"A young white teacher goes to an island off the coast of South Carolina to teach a group of functionally illiterate black children. Yamacraw Island is backward and primitive, a world for the most part left untouched by the 20th century....By ignoring the textbooks and concentrating on meaningful situations and dialogue...he begins to make headway. He also, unfortunately arouses the ire of the pow
Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
Philip Delves Broughton · 280 pages
In the century since its founding, Harvard BusinessSchool has become the single most influential institution inglobal business. Twenty percent of the CEOs of Fortune 500companies are HBS graduates, as are many of our savviestentrepreneurs (e. g. , Michael Bloomberg) and canniest felons(e. g. , Jeffrey Skilling). The top investment banks and brokeragehouses routinely send their brightest young star
It's Your Time You're Wasting: A Teacher's Tales Of Classroom Hell
Frank Chalk · 237 pages
"Frank Chalk is a teacher in a fairly poor inner city school - a school where the kids get drunk, take drugs and beat up the teachers...when they can be bothered to turn up. He confiscates their porn, booze and trainers, fends off angry parents and worries about the few conscientious pupils. Terrifying and hilarious, It's your time you're wasting is Chalk's real-life diary from the front line of t