Educators
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Teacher Man
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how one great storyteller found h
- Author: McCourt, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 19, 2006
- ISBN10: 0743243781
- Language: English
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The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori
$28.99 Read moreA fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator and activist who changed the way we look at children’s minds, from the author of Oriana Fallaci.
Born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria M- Author: de Stefano, Cristina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1635420849
- Language: English
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Glimpses of a Public Ivy: 50 Years at William & Mary
$24.99 Read moreThis behind-the-scenes collection of vignettes, as told by a professor of four decades, shares the story of life at America’s second-oldest college from 1950 to 2000.
Learn about the remarkable stud… [more below]
- Author: Holmes, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0764364448
- Language: English
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A Teacher’s Journey
$14.95 Add to cartA Teacher’s Journey explores the many successes and a few failures that I experienced during my years of teaching. While it is a book that offers teaching ideas, it is more than that. When I hesitated
- Author: Wickersham, Brigid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 26 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891577633
- Language: English
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The Tiger’s Child: What Ever Happened to Sheila?
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of One Child comes this incredible, true story of the six-year-old girl who touched the hearts of millions–and the courage of one teacher who would not give up on her.
What
- Author: Hayden, Torey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0062662880
- Language: English
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Renegade Teacher: Inside School Walls with Standards and the Test
$15.95 Add to cartUS public schools can do better. Post-pandemic, Harvard researcher Martin West states, “We’ve had the greatest decline in student achievement in US history. We have to have strategies to address this.
- Author: Scheidler, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886792614
- Language: English
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Renegade Teacher: Inside School Walls with Standards and the Test
$26.95 Add to cartUS public schools can do better. Post-pandemic, Harvard researcher Martin West states, “We’ve had the greatest decline in student achievement in US history. We have to have strategies to address this.
- Author: Scheidler, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886792621
- Language: English
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The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill
$25.99 Add to cartPsychologically astute and passionately written, Molly Worthen’s remarkable debut charts the intricate relationship between student and teacher, biographer and subject. As a Yale freshman, Worthen fou… [more below]
- Author: Worthen, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 16 2007
- ISBN10: 0618872671
- Language: English
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Walking Out on the Boys
$21.00 Add to cartIn May 1991, Frances K. Conley, the first female tenured professor of neurosurgery in the country, made headline news when she resigned from Stanford University to protest the medical school’s unabash
- Author: Conley, Frances K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0374525951
- Language: English
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To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe
$23.95 Add to cartHow have Black women fostered belonging in higher education institutions that have persisted in marginalizing them? Focusing on the career of Lucy Diggs Slowe, the first trained African American stude
- Author: Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Tamara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0820361658
- Language: English
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A Memoir My Life, Loves, and Laughs
$11.99 Add to cartThis is a social, intellectual, and spiritual autobiography of an average man who grew up in the American Midwest (Wisconsin) of a middle-class family, in the middle of the Twentieth Century.
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- Author: Sheldon, Garrett Ward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0996689060
- Language: English
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Men As Friends: From Cicero to Svevo to Cataldo
$26.95 Add to cartNeither a cautionary tale nor a polemic, Men as Friends is about a variety of male friendships and a variety of men. A “coming-of-old-age story,” it speaks to an audience of men who love or have loved
- Author: Epstein, Irwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: May 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1646639936
- Language: English
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Stanford’s Wallace Sterling: Portrait of a Presidency 1949-1968
$50.00 Add to cartJ. E. Wallace Sterling was Stanford University’s fifth president, serving from 1949 until 1968. During his presidency, Stanford evolved from a notable regional university into a leading national and e
- Author: Nilan, Roxanne L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 098479588X
- Language: English
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Terlingua Teacher: The Remarkable Lessons Taught and Learned in a One-room Texas Schoolhouse.
$22.00 Add to cartThe Remarkable Lessons Taught and Learned in a One-room Texas Schoolhouse.
A search for a simpler, more rewarding lifestyle brings Trent Jones and his wife Olga to the ghost town of Terlingua, Texas so
- Author: Jones, Trent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0974504831
- Language: English
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Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work
$18.00 Read moreMaria Montessori is important background reading for parents considering Montessori education for their children, as well as for those training to become Montessori teachers. The first woman to win a … [more below]
- Author: Standing, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0452279895
- Language: English
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The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade
$21.95 Add to cartIn this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South–and particularly its history of slavery–turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of
- Author: Dew, Charles B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0813940397
- Language: English
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life’s Greatest Lesson
$27.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A special 20th anniversary edition of the beloved book that changed millions of lives–with a new afterword by the author
“A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by- Author: Albom, Mitch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 18 2010
- ISBN10: 0739377779
- Language: English
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Gordon Cressy Tells Great Stories
$20.99 Add to cartGordon Cressy is a walking, talking civics lesson. His work over the years has been a driving force in making Toronto what it is today – a city that takes top spots globally in livability rankings for
- Author: Cressy, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1771806702
- Language: English
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The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori
$18.99 Read moreA fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator and activist who changed the way we look at children’s minds, from the author of Oriana Fallaci.
Born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria M- Author: de Stefano, Cristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1635424135
- Language: English
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Music in the Halls: The Heart and Heartbreak of Teaching at a High-Poverty School in Washington, DC
$17.95 Read moreThrough vignettes, essays, snapshots, portraits, and poems, Music in the Halls reveals the inner workings of a high-poverty District of Columbia Public School. In it, Jankowski brings to light the vis… [more below]
- Author: Jankowski, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1646034244
- Language: English
