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A Room for Learning
The Making of a School in Vermont
Tal Birdsey
St. Martin's Press
"We see how an authentic teacher builds a caring, loving community of learners. Every page, every incident and observation Birdsey relates, is a gentle but firm repudiation of technocratic schooling . . .
A Room for Learning
shows exactly what 'something closer to the heart' looks like in education. Birdsey sees each of his students as whole persons, with their own challenges, inclinations, learning styles, quirks and insecurities. Most of them . . . are afraid of ridicule and rejection, suspicious of adults who judge them and peers who band together in cliques to exercise power. They are reluctant to open themselves to others, to test their own limits or pursue their deepest dreams. Birdsey tells how he created a safe, nurturing space in which these young teens could find and test their best, authentic selves . . . Ultimately, what really matters to Birdsey and his students is a community where everyone feels cared for, a community rooted in love.
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. . . is what people are for."—
Ron Miller, author of
What Are Schools For?
, Vermont Commons
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The Gutenberg Elegies
The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Sven Birkerts; With a New Introduction and Afterword
Faber and Faber, Inc.
"Birkerts' argument is persuasive, not only in its content but in its manner. His writing, which questions and muses at the leisurely pace of human speech, and which evinces both intelligence and feeling, reveals a complex individual personality, providing that vertical kind of connectedness that a thousand e-mail messages cannot."—
San Francisco Chronicle
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Front of the Class
How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had
Brad Cohen with Lisa Wysocky
St. Martin's Griffin
"Brad Cohen's story is a triumph of hope, determination, will, and relentless good humor. His approach to living with Tourette syndrome proves how much is possible when you expect the best of everyone, especially yourself.”—
Peter J. Hollenbeck, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Head of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
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Only Connect
The Way to Save Our Schools
Dr. Rudolph Crew with Thomas Dyja
Sarah Crichton Books
"Crew proposes a new strategy. First, school systems need to be run like businesses, with explicit goals, implementation plans and budgets. The school must become the nucleus of the community, the center of a web connecting business, the arts, health services and other social institutions that can be drawn into the school's orbit. 'Connected Schools,' as Crew calls them, bring outside resources in and give students . . . a better sense of what is going on in the larger world . . . Crew has the grit and determination to make his plan work."—
Publishers Weekly
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Why Read?
Mark Edmundson
Bloomsbury USA
"Thoughtful . . . striking . . . Edmundson lobbies for demonstrating literature's importance by teaching it through asking big, risk-taking philosophical questions."—
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Why cant U teach me 2 read?
Three Students and a Mayor Put Our Schools to the Test
Beth Fertig
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"Carefully considered treatment of a troubling subject that will be particularly useful to educators and policymakers."—
Kirkus Reviews
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Cross-X
The Amazing True Story of How the Most Unlikely Team from the Most Unlikely of Places Overcame Staggering Obstacles at Home and at School to Challenge the Debate Community on Race, Power, and Education
Joe Miller
Picador
"While
Cross-X
might have started out as a
Rocky
-like story of a team conquering great odds, it morphs into an important, thoughtful, and provocative look at race and class in America, celebrating the tiny—and triumphant—inroad that these kids made in their lives and in the world of debate."—
Caroline Leavitt,
The Boston Globe
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The Short Bus
A Journey Beyond Normal
Jonathan Mooney
Holt Paperbacks
“By the end of
The Short Bus
, Mooney will have you wondering just where the deficits lie: with kids so labeled or the labelers themselves . . . Although many of those recollections are sad and discomfiting, Mooney uses self-depreciating humor to diffuse anything that smacks of a pity party. Most important, he celebrates the immense diversity of human minds, reminding us that there is much to learned from those who make their home somewhere beyond ‘normal.’”—
Carole Goldberg,
Newsday
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Tested
One American School Struggles to Make the Grade
Linda Perlstein
Holt Paperbacks
“Deploying the fine fly-on-the-wall reporting skills that made her previous book,
Not Much Just Chillin’
, so uncannily evocative of the lives of middle school kids, she opens a window into a school that has become over-the-top test obsessed. She weaves in extensive discussions of federal education policy, pushing readers to the conclusion that the standards and accountability movement in general, and No Child Left Behind in particular, have gone badly awry. Perlstein paints a sobering portrait of Tyler Heights.”—
Ben Wildavsky,
The Miami Herald
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Soldier's Heart
Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
Elizabeth D. Samet
Picador
"By writing a thoughtful, attentive, stereotype-breaking book about her 10 years as a civilian teacher of literature at the Military Academy, she offers a significant perspective on the crucial social and political force of honor: a principle of behavior at the intersection of duty and imagination."—
Robert Pinsky,
The New York Times Book Review
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Why Darwin Matters
The Case Against Intelligent Design
Michael Shermer
Holt Paperbacks
"Shermer lays out the case for evolution cogently, if not in great detail, in
Why Darwin Matters
. He then does what many scientists are unwilling to do: He engages and answers the arguments of people who don't accept evolution. He does this with care and respect but without any false even-handedness . . . With zest but without gloating, Shermer takes on the arguments against evolution and mows them down."—
David Brown,
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Beer and Circus
How Big-Time College Sports Has Crippled Undergraduate Education
Murray Sperber
Holt Paperbacks
In this fascinating book, Sperber uses original research culled from students, faculty, and administrators around the country, to argue that what universities...
Society of Midland Authors Book Awards - Winner - Adult Nonfiction
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How Lincoln Learned to Read
Twelve Great Americans and the Educations That Made Them
Daniel Wolff
Bloomsbury USA
"A riveting, original examination of education inside and outside the classroom. What makes this work particularly captivating is that music historian Wolff doesn't focus primarily on the book learning acquired by a dozen Americans, from Benjamin Franklin to Elvis Presley. Rather, his interest is in how they learned—that is, the life experiences that helped transform them into the figures they became . . . Their stories attest that learning doesn't just happen in a schoolhouse, and life itself may well be the most effective teacher of the most important lessons. Well thought-out, well-argued and thoroughly engaging."
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Nobody Left to Hate
Elliot Aronson
Holt Paperbacks
On April 20, 1999, the halls of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, reverberated with the sound of gunshots as two students, highly armed and...
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The Art of Teaching Art to Children
In School and at Home
Nancy Beal; With Gloria Bley Miller
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
An inspiring and comprehensive guide to art education. In this accessibly written guide for classroom and art teachers as well as parents, Nancy Beal shows...
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Get It Together for College
A Planner to Help You Get Organized and Get In
The College Board
College Board
Any high school senior will tell you that the hardest part of applying to college is organizing their work and staying on top of the various tests, forms,...
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College Success
What It Means and How to Make It Happen
The College Board
College Board
"The College Board has done the educational community a great service by publishing this excellently chosen set of essays that focuses primarily on what happens to students after they enter college. Many of us have felt for some time that too much emphasis is often placed on who gets into college rather than on success in college. McPherson and Schapiro provide a valuable guide to the contents in their introduction, and readers will have no difficulty identifying the essays of particular interest to them."—
William Bowen, President Emeritus, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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Reclaiming Childhood
Letting Children Be Children in Our Achievement-Oriented Society
William Crain
Holt Paperbacks
“A thoughtful and valuable resource for parents and teachers looking for alternative approaches to education.” —Booklist As our children...
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Smart Kids, Bad Schools
38 Ways to Save America's Future
Brian Crosby
Thomas Dunne Books
In Smart Kids, Bad Schools, award-winning author and educator Brian Crosby draws on his twenty years as a high school English teacher to offer a candid...
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Basic Montessori
Learning Activities For Under-Fives
David Gettman
St. Martin's Griffin
For the first time, Basic Montessori opens the celebrated philosophy and method to a more general public. David Gettman has devised a clear and modern...
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Einstein Never Used Flashcards
How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D., and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D., with Diane Eyer, Ph.D.
Rodale Books
"Although parents know that the early years are learning years, just what that means has been confusing—until now.
Einstein Never Used Flash Cards
makes practical sense of the vast number of technical studies and the hyperbole of advertising claims. It explains in clear, compelling, and scientific terms how learning really takes place. This book is a must-read for parents, grandparents, teachers, caregivers, pediatricians, and policy makers—in other words, all those who care about (and for) the next generation of children."—
Ellen Galinsky, president and cofounder of the Families and Work Institute in New York City
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Dangerous Minds
They Were Problem Kids With One Last Chance . . . Her
LouAnne Johnson
St. Martin's Paperbacks
She bullied, bluffed, and bribed her students into caring about school. And if that didn't work, the pretty, petite ex-marine told them she'd been trained...
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Pillars of the Republic
Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860
Carl F. Kaestle
Hill and Wang
Pillars of the Republic is a pioneering study of common-school development in the years before the Civil War. Public acceptance of state school systems,...
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Games with Books
Twenty-eight of the Best Children's Books and How to Use Them to Help Your Child Learn—From Preschool to Third Grade
Peggy Kaye
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Everyone knows how important it is to read with children. But how can you continue your child's learning experience and enjoyment of a story once you close...
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