Gerry Albarelli's TEACHA! STORIES FROM A YESHIVA chronicls a year in the life of a non-Jewish teacher and his students at a wild Hasidic yeshiva in Brooklyn.

" One Shot at Forever is powerful, inspirational. . . This isn't merely a book about baseball. It's a book about heart." -- Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Boys Will Be Boys and The Bad Guys WonIn 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois, playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats, defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no coaching experience...

This "page-turning biography" reveals the extraordinary life of the children's book author behind Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny ( BookPage).Millions of people around the world know Margaret Wise Brown through her classic works of children's literature. But few know that she was equally remarkable for her business savvy, her thirst for adventure, and her vital role in a children's book publishing revolution.Margaret used her w...

A twenty-year veteran of the classroom, elementary school teacher Phillip Done takes readers through a lively and hilarious year in the classroom. Starting with the relative calm before the storm of buying school supplies and posting class lists, he shares the distinct personalities of grades K-4, what he learned from two professional trick or treating 8-year-old boys, the art of learning cursive and letter-writing, how kindergartners try to trap leprechauns, and what every child should ex...

Essay about the day and what happened when a mouse appeared in an inner city in-school-suspension classroom.

“Candid… reminiscent of the backwaters of Kerala placid and mirroring the verdure of nature and the blueness of the sky.” M. Mukundan, Award winning novelist, India “Radhika Lee is an extraordinary woman whose story of thriving through adversity will inspire and move you.” Nigel Barlow, MA Oxon, Author and business speaker “A life so rich, yet so marred by seemingly railroading circumstances. If you’ve ever been at the very bottom of the rock, this book is for you!” —Jackson Biko, Writer, j...

"Outback people are a different society, distinctly frontier in mind and deed. In 1961, a young and inexperienced teacher found himself in a small community facing a challenge few others had met. He endured, going in a boy and coming out a man, forever grateful to the extrodinary Aboriginal boy who gave him an eye for the bush. This is his story, told without fancy but with the flavor of those days". -Barry Broadfoot

Brookside Elementary in Norwalk, Connecticut, is preparing for a new school year and another chance to improve its failing scores on the statewide standardized test known as the CMT. The challenges are many, and for the faculty—whose jobs may depend on their students’ ability to improve on the test—the stakes are high.Ten-year-old Hydea is about to start fifth grade with second-grade reading skills. Her friend Marbella is only a little further along. In past years, these students w...

A Professor at the End of Time tells one professor’s story in the context of the rapid reconfiguration of higher education going on now, and analyzes what the job included before the supernova of technological innovation, the general influx of less-well-prepared students, and the diminution of state and federal support wrought wholesale changes on the profession.

Halfway up Parnassus is a personal account of the University of Toronto with particular emphasis on the period when Dr. Bissell was its president, from 1958 to 1971. The first half of that period was the flowering of the old, self-confident university, with its established patterns of government, and its untroubled constituents. The second half saw the slow, powerful emergence of a new university, uncertain of itself and its role, seeking to find a form for democratic aspirations—...

Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism provides an account of the life and writings of Ella Lyman Cabot (1866-1934), a woman who received formal training, but not formal recognition, in the field of classical American philosophy. It highlights the themes of idealism, pragmatism and feminism as they emerged in the course of career as an educational reformer and ethicist that spanned nearly four decades. Cabot's writings, developed in graduate seminars at Harvard and Radcliffe at the turn of the...

Book Summary: In this fascinating autobiography, years in the making, Robert D. Snater tells his personal story of his acquired German-Dutch heritage, raised by a single mother during the Great Depression and World War II in the small town of Ackley, in east-central Iowa. Relive your own youthful experiences while enjoying the adventures of the author and his friends. Follow his expanding horizons while attending Drake University and the discouraging realities he encountered in the early s...