Secondary Education
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Dictatorship of Virtue
How the Battle Over Multiculturalism Is Reshaping Our Schools, Our Country, and Our Lives
Written by Richard Bernstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 396 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 29, 1995
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76398-7 (0-679-76398-8)
Bernstein offers an examination of multiculturalism--from its noble roots to the abuses and excesses that he sees being perpetrated in its name. Dictatorship of Virtue takes us to the front lines of this war for America's intellectual future: battles of school curricula, local legislation, college reading lists, censorship and freedom of... Read more >
How the Battle Over Multiculturalism Is Reshaping Our Schools, Our Country, and Our Lives
Written by Richard Bernstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 396 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 29, 1995
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76398-7 (0-679-76398-8)
Bernstein offers an examination of multiculturalism--from its noble roots to the abuses and excesses that he sees being perpetrated in its name. Dictatorship of Virtue takes us to the front lines of this war for America's intellectual future: battles of school curricula, local legislation, college reading lists, censorship and freedom of... Read more >
Cringe
Teenage Diaries, Journals, Notes, Letters, Poems, and Abandoned Rock Operas
Written by Sarah Brown
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-39358-6 (0-307-39358-5)
Did you keep a diary during your teen years? Do you have a box of loopy-cursive, never-sent notes to your crush? Or some overwrought poetry about your bleak existence? An unfinished rockopera? Well, you’re not alone, and in Cringe, you’ll find a reason to unearth your adolescent angst and have a... Read more >
Teenage Diaries, Journals, Notes, Letters, Poems, and Abandoned Rock Operas
Written by Sarah Brown
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-39358-6 (0-307-39358-5)
Did you keep a diary during your teen years? Do you have a box of loopy-cursive, never-sent notes to your crush? Or some overwrought poetry about your bleak existence? An unfinished rockopera? Well, you’re not alone, and in Cringe, you’ll find a reason to unearth your adolescent angst and have a... Read more >
The Best Old Movies for Families
A Guide to Watching Together
Written by Ty Burr
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9686-2 (1-4000-9686-3)
If a child can watch Barney, can’t that same child also enjoy watching Charlie Chaplin or the Marx Brothers? And as they get older, wouldn’t they grow to like screwball comedies (His Girl Friday), women’s weepies (Imitation of Life), and westerns (The Searchers)? The answer is that they’ll follow because they’ll... Read more >
A Guide to Watching Together
Written by Ty Burr
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9686-2 (1-4000-9686-3)
If a child can watch Barney, can’t that same child also enjoy watching Charlie Chaplin or the Marx Brothers? And as they get older, wouldn’t they grow to like screwball comedies (His Girl Friday), women’s weepies (Imitation of Life), and westerns (The Searchers)? The answer is that they’ll follow because they’ll... Read more >
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Teacher
The One Who Made the Difference
Written by Mark Edmundson
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70854-1 (0-375-70854-5)
In 1969, Mark Edmundson was a typical high school senior in working-class Medford, Massachusetts. He loved football, disdained schoolwork, and seemed headed for a factory job in his hometown—until a maverick philosophy teacher turned his life around.
When Frank Lears, a small, nervous man wearing a moth-eaten suit, arrived at Medford fresh... Read more >
The One Who Made the Difference
Written by Mark Edmundson
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70854-1 (0-375-70854-5)
In 1969, Mark Edmundson was a typical high school senior in working-class Medford, Massachusetts. He loved football, disdained schoolwork, and seemed headed for a factory job in his hometown—until a maverick philosophy teacher turned his life around.
When Frank Lears, a small, nervous man wearing a moth-eaten suit, arrived at Medford fresh... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Relentless Pursuit
A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America
Written by Donna Foote
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27823-4 (0-307-27823-9)
When Locke High School opened its doors in 1967, the residents of Watts celebrated it as a sign of the changes promised by Los Angeles. But four decades later, first-year Teach for America recruits Rachelle, Phillip, Hrag, and Taylor are greeted by a school that looks more like a prison, with... Read more >
A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America
Written by Donna Foote
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27823-4 (0-307-27823-9)
When Locke High School opened its doors in 1967, the residents of Watts celebrated it as a sign of the changes promised by Los Angeles. But four decades later, first-year Teach for America recruits Rachelle, Phillip, Hrag, and Taylor are greeted by a school that looks more like a prison, with... Read more >
Relentless Pursuit
A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America
Written by Donna Foote
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 15, 2008
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26571-5 (0-307-26571-4)
A revealing look inside a national phenomenon, Teach For America, which, since its founding in 1990, has pursued one of the most daring—and controversial—strategies for closing the educational achievement gap between the richest and poorest students in the country.
The story is set in South Los Angeles at Locke High School, an... Read more >
A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America
Written by Donna Foote
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 15, 2008
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26571-5 (0-307-26571-4)
A revealing look inside a national phenomenon, Teach For America, which, since its founding in 1990, has pursued one of the most daring—and controversial—strategies for closing the educational achievement gap between the richest and poorest students in the country.
The story is set in South Los Angeles at Locke High School, an... Read more >
Also available as an
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trade paperback.
The Pen Commandments
Written by Steven Frank
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3229-7 (1-4000-3229-6)
Thou Shalt Honor Thy Reader, Thou Shalt Not Waste Words, Thou Shalt Not Kill Thy Sentences—these are three of the “pen” commandments through which, with humor and an engaging sense of purpose, Steven Frank inspires his readers not just to write but to write well.
Thou Shalt Take Pleasure in Thy Pen... Read more >
Written by Steven Frank
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3229-7 (1-4000-3229-6)
Thou Shalt Honor Thy Reader, Thou Shalt Not Waste Words, Thou Shalt Not Kill Thy Sentences—these are three of the “pen” commandments through which, with humor and an engaging sense of purpose, Steven Frank inspires his readers not just to write but to write well.
Thou Shalt Take Pleasure in Thy Pen... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Schools We Need
And Why We Don't Have Them
Written by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 17, 1999
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49524-0 (0-385-49524-2)
Now in paperback with a new introduction, The Schools We Need offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America’s schooling methods and ideas—by one of America’s most important educators, and author of the bestselling Cultural Literacy.
For over fifty years, American schools have operated under the assumption that challenging... Read more >
And Why We Don't Have Them
Written by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 17, 1999
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49524-0 (0-385-49524-2)
Now in paperback with a new introduction, The Schools We Need offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America’s schooling methods and ideas—by one of America’s most important educators, and author of the bestselling Cultural Literacy.
For over fifty years, American schools have operated under the assumption that challenging... Read more >
Elvis Is Titanic
Classroom Tales from Iraqi Kurdistan
Written by Ian Klaus
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27689-6 (0-307-27689-9)
In the spring of 2005, twenty-five-year-old Rhodes Scholar Ian Klaus took a semester-long appointment at Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Officially he was there to lecture on American history and to teach English. Unofficially he was there because he felt obliged, as a... Read more >
Classroom Tales from Iraqi Kurdistan
Written by Ian Klaus
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27689-6 (0-307-27689-9)
In the spring of 2005, twenty-five-year-old Rhodes Scholar Ian Klaus took a semester-long appointment at Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Officially he was there to lecture on American history and to teach English. Unofficially he was there because he felt obliged, as a... Read more >
Letters to a Young Teacher
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-39371-5 (0-307-39371-2)
In this collection of his letters to Francesca, a first year teacher in a Boston elementary school, Jonathan Kozol reflects on what he calls the “beautiful profession” she has chosen while he also tries to guide her through the many unexpected challenges she encounters. Under her shrewd and sometimes irreverent questioning... Read more >
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-39371-5 (0-307-39371-2)
In this collection of his letters to Francesca, a first year teacher in a Boston elementary school, Jonathan Kozol reflects on what he calls the “beautiful profession” she has chosen while he also tries to guide her through the many unexpected challenges she encounters. Under her shrewd and sometimes irreverent questioning... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
The Shame of the Nation
The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5245-5 (1-4000-5245-9)
"The Shame of the Nation is a national wake-up call... It should be required reading."--Marian Wright Edelman, CEO and Founder, Children's Defense Fund
Over the last 15 years, the state of inner-city public schools has been in a steep and continuing decline. Since the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in... Read more >
The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5245-5 (1-4000-5245-9)
"The Shame of the Nation is a national wake-up call... It should be required reading."--Marian Wright Edelman, CEO and Founder, Children's Defense Fund
Over the last 15 years, the state of inner-city public schools has been in a steep and continuing decline. Since the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in... Read more >
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The Shame of the Nation
The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5244-8 (1-4000-5244-0)
“The nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we’re committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable." --Shame of the Nation
Over the past several years, Jonathan... Read more >
The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5244-8 (1-4000-5244-0)
“The nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we’re committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable." --Shame of the Nation
Over the past several years, Jonathan... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
The Essential Conversation
What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other
Written by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-47580-0 (0-345-47580-1)
With the insights she has gleaned from her close and subtle observation of parent-teacher conferences, renowned Harvard University professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot has written a wise, useful book about the ways in which parents and teachers can make the most of their conversation.
“The essential conversation” is the crucial exchange that occurs between... Read more >
What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other
Written by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-47580-0 (0-345-47580-1)
With the insights she has gleaned from her close and subtle observation of parent-teacher conferences, renowned Harvard University professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot has written a wise, useful book about the ways in which parents and teachers can make the most of their conversation.
“The essential conversation” is the crucial exchange that occurs between... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Real Education
Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
Written by Charles Murray
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Crown Forum
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-40538-8 (0-307-40538-9)
In Real Education, researcher and scholar Charles Murray confronts the American educational system. Essentially, he posits four simple truths that parents and educators must come to terms with:
• Ability varies
• Half of the children are below average
• Too many people are going to college
• America’s future depends on how we educate... Read more >
Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
Written by Charles Murray
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Crown Forum
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-40538-8 (0-307-40538-9)
In Real Education, researcher and scholar Charles Murray confronts the American educational system. Essentially, he posits four simple truths that parents and educators must come to terms with:
• Ability varies
• Half of the children are below average
• Too many people are going to college
• America’s future depends on how we educate... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Conscientious Objections
Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education
Written by Neil Postman
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 3, 1992
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73421-5 (0-679-73421-X)
In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst--and the best--of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty. Writing in the traditions of Orwell and H.L. Mencken, Postman sends... Read more >
Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education
Written by Neil Postman
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 3, 1992
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73421-5 (0-679-73421-X)
In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst--and the best--of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty. Writing in the traditions of Orwell and H.L. Mencken, Postman sends... Read more >
The End of Education
Redefining the Value of School
Written by Neil Postman
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 29, 1996
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75031-4 (0-679-75031-2)
Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earlier generations. Instead, today's schools promote the false "gods" of economic utility, consumerism, or ethnic separatism and resentment. What alternative strategies can we use to... Read more >
Redefining the Value of School
Written by Neil Postman
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 29, 1996
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75031-4 (0-679-75031-2)
Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earlier generations. Instead, today's schools promote the false "gods" of economic utility, consumerism, or ethnic separatism and resentment. What alternative strategies can we use to... Read more >
The Art of the Handwritten Note
A Guide to Reclaiming Civilized Communication
Written by Margaret Shepherd
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: January 22, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0745-3 (0-7679-0745-0)
The Art of the Handwritten Note gives thorough instruction to students who are adept at typing away at a forgiving computer, but who are daunted with the prospect of hand-writting notes. From overcoming illegible penmanship to mastering the challenge of keeping straight margins, avoiding smeared ink, and choosing stationery that is... Read more >
A Guide to Reclaiming Civilized Communication
Written by Margaret Shepherd
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: January 22, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0745-3 (0-7679-0745-0)
The Art of the Handwritten Note gives thorough instruction to students who are adept at typing away at a forgiving computer, but who are daunted with the prospect of hand-writting notes. From overcoming illegible penmanship to mastering the challenge of keeping straight margins, avoiding smeared ink, and choosing stationery that is... Read more >
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