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Holler If You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students
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Include books by the same authorOne 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.
The Diary of Ma Yan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese Schoolgirl
Ma Yan, Pierre Haski · 176 pages
White Teacher
Vivian Gussin Paley · 140 pages
Vivian Paley presents a moving personal account of her experiences teaching kindergarten in an integrated school within a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood. In a new preface, she reflects on the way that even simple terminology can convey unintended meanings and show a speaker's blind spots. She also vividly describes what her readers have taught her over the years about herself as a
The Brainy Bunch: The Harding Family's Method to College Ready by Age Twelve
Kip Harding, Mona Lisa Harding · 244 pages
Train Go Sorry
Leah Hager Cohen · 296 pages
"Train go sorry" is the American Sign Language expression for "missing the boat." Indeed, missed connections characterize many interactions between the deaf and hearing worlds, including the failure to recognize that deaf people are members of a unique culture. In this intimate chronicle of Lexington School for the Deaf, Leah Hager Cohen brings this extraordinary culture to life and captures a piv
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
Jonathan Kozol · 368 pages
A Framework for Understanding Poverty
Ruby K. Payne · 205 pages
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
The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future
Linda Darling-Hammond · 394 pages
Argues that the education system in America needs to make drastic changes in order to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that protects every child's right to learn.
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
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
Twilight Children
Torey L. Hayden · 352 pages
For decades, former special education teacher Torey Hayden has been a light in the darkness for severely troubled children, and she has chronicled her determined efforts, triumphs, and breakthroughs in a series of internationally bestselling books, beginning with her powerful and poignant One Child. But it wasn't until she left the classroom that she faced three of her most extraordinary challenge
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
Paul Tough · 256 pages
Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in this book the author argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character: skills like perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, optimism, and self-con
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.
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: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick · 240 pages
Praise for I Am Malala: A 2015 Amelia Bloomer Project List Selection A CBC 2015 Children's Choice Book Awards Finalist A 2015 International Literacy Association Teachers' Choice Selection * "A searing and personal portrait of a young woman who dared to make a difference." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This is no simple redaction. With the capable assistance of co-author McCormick,
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover · 353 pages
Choose the good -- The midwife -- Cream shoes -- Apache women -- Honest dirt -- Shield and buckler -- The Lord will provide -- Tiny harlots -- Perfect in his generations -- Shield of feathers -- Instinct -- Fish eyes -- Silence in the churches -- My feet no longer touch Earth -- No more a child -- Disloyal man, disobedient heaven -- To keep it holy -- Blood and feathers -- In the beginning -- Reci
Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard
Laura Bates · 306 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.