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| This is a moving and personal story of teacher's life told from her side of the desk. Teachers build a nation by touching the lives of... "From the Streets to the Skies No Limits" is based on a true story and the diary of Crystal Victoria. The book addresses many obstacles...
Forensic Leadership is a book about a young man who grew up on the westside of town in the government subsidized projects and how he... Chris Payne writes a hilarious surreal account of life as a university professor at a dysfunctional university in the Turkish Republic of...
Raised in a Greek immigrant family amid New England's industrial decline, Manny Voulgaropoulos wanted to explore exotic places. His... A Life Renewed, 1983-1998 continues the personal story begun in Roderick Stackelberg's earlier autobiographical volumes, Out of Hitler's...
When eleven-year-old Francis Duworko was abducted as a child soldier, he fought for the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy... A college dropout, twenty-year-old Vincent Martino works as a security guard in a parking garage-a job that gives him plenty of time to...
Marry Me in Africa is an invitation to discuss approaches and processes in African marriage ritual. As one crucial institution in African... "I will forever cherish the life lessons I learned from Mr. Mitchell. I learned about love, about tragedy, about overcoming setbacks and...
Have you ever wanted to know what it's like being a male student of African descent, who never encountered any educators that were male... When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the...
A must-read for parents, new teachers, and classroom veterans, Educating Esmé is the exuberant diary of Esmé Raji Codell's first year... In the year he spent teaching at Borrego Pass, a remote Navajo community in northwest New Mexico, Kurt Caswell found himself shunned as...
This collection of work is an analysis and investigation into Maxine Greene, the most important philosopher of education in the United... This definitive biography of the charismatic Alexander Meiklejohn tracks his turbulent career as an educational innovator at Brown...
Praise for Sam Pickering: "Pickering has all of Thurber's humor, and he writes as well as E. B. White. He writes with passion, wit, and... Franklin Murphy? It's not a name that is widely known; even during his lifetime the public knew little of him. But for nearly thirty...
The Los Angeles Times called the first volume of The Gold and the Blue "a major contribution to our understanding of American research... Psychologically astute and passionately written, Molly Worthen’s remarkable debut charts the intricate relationship between student...
This is the first volume of my autobiography covering the years 1950 to 1968, when I left Pontardawe Grammar School. The book opens with... The first years of teaching are full of any number of unexpected problems and issues that can frustrate even the most prepared early...
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