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  • Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work by Standing, E. M.
    E. M. Standing

    Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work

    Maria 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 degree as a Doctor of Medicine in Italy in 1896, Maria Montessori's mission to...
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  • Sounds from Silence: Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor, Psychiatrist, and Teacher by Krell, Robert
    Robert Krell

    Sounds from Silence: Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor, Psychiatrist, and Teacher

    I have long described child Holocaust survivors as "elderly children." We were forced to grow up overnight and lost pieces of childhood - of play and security, of comfort and predictability, of parental love and guidance. Those few of us fortunate to have survived...
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  • The Road to Home: My Life and Times by Gregorian, Vartan
    Vartan Gregorian

    The Road to Home: My Life and Times

    In this humorous, learned, and moving memoir, Vartan Gregorian recounts his journey from an impoverished childhood as a Christian Armenian in Muslim Tabriz to cultured citizen of the world. Gregorian's odyssey begins in an obscure poor quarter of a provincial city (thought by some...
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  • Chasing One Day at a Time by Moline, Thomas Lee
    Thomas Lee Moline

    Chasing One Day at a Time

    ANOTHER SPIRITUAL BEING SIMPLY HAVING A HUMAN EXPERIENCE Receipt of the family genealogy inspires the author to capture his life story in writing before it is too late. Intending to simply supplant a tombstone with an autobiography, the book that is produced generates example...
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  • I'm the Teacher, You're the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom by Allitt, Patrick
    Patrick Allitt

    I'm the Teacher, You're the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom

    What is it really like to be a college professor in an American classroom today? An award-winning teacher with over twenty years of experience answers this question by offering an enlightening and entertaining behind-the-scenes view of a typical semester in his American history course....
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  • Whistling for Hippos: A memoir of life in West Africa by Corey, Scott
    Scott Corey

    Whistling for Hippos: A memoir of life in West Africa

    Africa has a way of luring you in, Scott Corey writes in the opening lines of Whistling for Hippos. It begins with a flash of dark eyes in the firelight and ends with life-long fascination. Or it may begin with a mud-brick village awash...
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  • The Art of Being a School Counselor: Leading with Confidence, Compassion & Authenticity by Regas, Nancy L.
    Nancy L. Regas

    The Art of Being a School Counselor: Leading with Confidence, Compassion & Authenticity

    Are you thinking about school counseling as a profession or just starting as a school counselor? Okay, maybe you're already an established school counselor; congratulations! However, are you feeling stuck, lost, or frustrated in your present position? If you answer yes to either question,...
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  • One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season by Ballard, Chris
    Chris Ballard

    One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season

    "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 Won In 1971, a small-town high...
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  • Anna and the King of Siam by Landon, Margaret
    Margaret Landon

    Anna and the King of Siam

    The bestselling book that inspired the musical play and film The King and I"Enchanting. . . . The author wears her scholarship with grace, and the amazing story she has to tell is recounted with humor and understanding. And what a story it is!"...
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  • The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Stewart, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Stewart

    The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

    A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro -- the creative African Americans whose art,...
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  • Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater by Sokolove, Michael
    Michael Sokolove

    Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater

    The inspiration for the NBC TV series "Rise," starring Josh Radnor, Auli'i Cravalho, and Rosie Perez -- the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town. By the author of...
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  • You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History by Zinn, Howard
    Howard Zinn

    You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

    If you're both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a "new generation of activists and ordinary people who search for hope in the darkness" (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor). Is change possible? Where will it come from? Can we actually make...
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  • Maria Montessori: A Biography by Kramer, Rita
    Rita Kramer

    Maria Montessori: A Biography

    Maria Montessori (1870-1952) brought about a revolution in the classroom. She developed a method of teaching small children and inspired a movement that carried that method into every corner of the world. In her rich and forthright biography, Rita Kramer brings this powerful woman...
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  • Imagined Memories by Desai, Jaikishan
    Jaikishan Desai

    Imagined Memories

    When your whole life you've walked to the beat of a different drummer, and remember a little too much of the walkabout, then you're bound to have umpteen stories to tell. This book is a collection of 60 memories of a meandering life that...
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  • Locked Out: Finding freedom and education after Prince Edward County closed its schools by Cobbs, Alfred L.
    Alfred L. Cobbs

    Locked Out: Finding freedom and education after Prince Edward County closed its schools

    From 1959-1964, Prince Edward County, Virginia, closed its public schools rather than desegregate them, as ordered by the Supreme Court in the 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision. Alfred L. Cobbs, a rising tenth grader at the time, was one of the causalities...
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  • Learning by Heart: An Unconventional Education by Wagner, Tony
    Tony Wagner

    Learning by Heart: An Unconventional Education

    "A page turner. With candor and clarity, Tony Wagner tells the story of his remarkable life and, in so doing, tells the story of our education system."--Angela Duckworth, Founder and CEO, Character Lab, and New York Times bestselling author of Grit One of the...
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  • The Long Haul: An Autobiography by Horton, Myles
    Myles Horton

    The Long Haul: An Autobiography

    In his own direct, modest, plain-spoken style, Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School. A major catalyst for social change in the United States for more than 70 years, this school has touched the lives of so many people, including Martin...
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  • The Twists & Turns of Possibility: My Life is My True Story by McGrone, Principal Michael, Sr.
    Principal Michael Sr. McGrone

    The Twists & Turns of Possibility: My Life is My True Story

    The Twists & Turns of Possibility, My Life is My True Story is a riveting journey about a young man who grew up in Gary, Indiana. He was able to defy incredible odds to become a school principal, recognized all over the world for...
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  • Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller by Nielsen, Kim E.
    Kim E. Nielsen

    Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller

    A moving portrait of Anne Sullivan Macy, teacher of Helen Keller--and a complex, intelligent woman worthy of her own spotlight After many years, historian and Helen Keller expert Kim Nielsen realized that she and her peers had failed Anne Sullivan Macy. While Macy is...
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  • Between Panic and Desire by Moore, Dinty W.
    Dinty W. Moore

    Between Panic and Desire

    "Insouciant" and "irreverent" are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore's books--and, invariably, "hilarious." Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form. A book that could...
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  • Crossing the Water: Eighteen Months on an Island Working with Troubled Boys-A Teacher's Memoir by Robb, Daniel
    Daniel Robb

    Crossing the Water: Eighteen Months on an Island Working with Troubled Boys-A Teacher's Memoir

    Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School, where Daniel Robb lived and worked for three years as a teacher. By turns harsh, desolate, and...
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  • Teacher by Ashton-Warner, Sylvia
    Sylvia Ashton-Warner

    Teacher

    TEACHER was first published in 1963 to excited acclaim. Its author, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, who lived in New Zealand and spent many years teaching Maori children, found that Maoris taught according to British methods were not learning to read. They were passionate, moody children, bred...
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  • The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa by Fukuzawa, Yukichi
    Yukichi Fukuzawa

    The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa

    Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901) was a leading figure in the cultural revolution that transformed Japan from an isolated feudal nation into a full-fledged player in the modern world. He translated a wide range of Western works and adapted them to Japanese needs, inventing a colorful...
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  • When Passion Meets Project by Aspinall, Brian
    Brian Aspinall

    When Passion Meets Project

    For all the kids who grow up in a small town and think they don't stand a chance.You do. I was once that kid.What is the one thing you have always wanted to try? Why haven't you done it? Surround yourself with people who...
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  • My Journey with Ernie: Lessons from a Turkey Dog by Speece, Heidi
    Heidi Speece

    My Journey with Ernie: Lessons from a Turkey Dog

    In a sleepy town in Virginia, Heidi Speece was a high school teacher in search of something new. The overachiever with a penchant for "to do" lists had grown bored with life. She knew she needed a change, and she found it when she...
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  • Numbskull in the Theatre of Inquiry: Transforming Self, Friends, Organizations, and Social Science by Torbert, William R.
    William R. Torbert

    Numbskull in the Theatre of Inquiry: Transforming Self, Friends, Organizations, and Social Science

    Renowned senior member of the adult development, leadership, and organization transformation fields, award-winning researcher, consultant, and teacher, Bill Torbert offers us this final and signature book -- an anti-heroic memoir named Numbskull that shares his dramatic early life in Spain, Austria, Italy, and Somalia,...
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  • Moody Bitches by Holland M. D., Julie
    Julie Holland M. D.

    Moody Bitches

    As women, we learn from an early age that our moods are a problem. Bitches are moody. To succeed in life, we are told, we must have it all under control. But our bodies are wiser than we imagine. Moods are not an annoyance...
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  • Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C.: Activism and Education in Logan Circle by Jones, Ida E.
    Ida E. Jones

    Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C.: Activism and Education in Logan Circle

    Best known as an educator and early civil rights activist, Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of former slaves. After moving to Washington, D.C., in 1936, she organized and represented thousands of women with the National Council of Negro Women. She led the charge...
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  • One by One, the Stars: Essays by Stuckey-French, Ned
    Ned Stuckey-French

    One by One, the Stars: Essays

    A tireless and discerning advocate for contemporary practitioners of creative nonfiction, Ned Stuckey-French was at the center of every national discussion about the genre. He greatly contributed to our scholarly understanding of the history of the essay and was working on his first essay...
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  • From Cabbage to Cauliflower: Memoirs of an Obscure Academic by Monahan, William G.
    William G. Monahan

    From Cabbage to Cauliflower: Memoirs of an Obscure Academic

    From Cabbage to Cauliflower offers a testament to the power and capacity of education to open the doors of opportunity and accomplishment to even the poorest and least likely of the nation's citizens. Born to a working-class Irish American family in Bowling Green, Kentucky,...
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  • Unsilenced: A Teacher's Year of Battles, Breakthroughs, and Life-Changing Lessons at Belchertown State School by Shane, Howard C.
    Howard C. Shane

    Unsilenced: A Teacher's Year of Battles, Breakthroughs, and Life-Changing Lessons at Belchertown State School

    The year is 1969, and fresh-out-of-college smart-aleck Howard Shane has just landed his first teaching job--at Belchertown State School, a bleak institution where people with disabilities endure endless days of silence, tedium, and neglect.Howard is stunned by the conditions at Belchertown and the challenges...
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  • Out of the Red: My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption by Bolden, Christian L.
    Christian L. Bolden

    Out of the Red: My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption

    Frank Tannenbaum Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology​ Faculty Senate Award for Research from Loyola University New Orleans​ Out of the Red is one man's pathbreaking story of how social forces and personal choices combined to deliver an unfortunate fate. After...
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  • What Autism Gave Me: A Devastating Diagnosis To A Triumphant Life by Goodroe, Michael Haigwood
    Michael Haigwood Goodroe

    What Autism Gave Me: A Devastating Diagnosis To A Triumphant Life

    An Unexpected Story of Hope and Perseverance... As a young child, it was obvious something was wrong with Michael. He lacked basic motor skills and was unable to follow simple instructions or answer questions. Testing revealed a diagnosis of autism with a low IQ....
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  • Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics by Conway, Flo
    Flo Conway

    Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics

    Child prodigy and brilliant MIT mathematician, Norbert Wiener founded the revolutionary science of cybernetics and ignited the information-age explosion of computers, automation, and global telecommunications. His best-selling book, Cybernetics, catapulted him into the public spotlight, as did his chilling visions of the future and...
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  • Murphy's Boy by Hayden, Torey
    Torey Hayden

    Murphy's Boy

    "A story rich in reasons for hope." --Publishers WeeklyFrom the bestselling author of One Child, the true story of a boy who refused to speak--until a therapist's love broke through the silence. When Torey Hayden first met fifteen-year-old Kevin, he was barricaded under a...
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  • Heroes of Hawaii by Enos, Solomon Nui
    Solomon Nui Enos

    Heroes of Hawaii

    Heroes of Hawaiʻi, written in English by Kimo Armitage and illustrated brilliantly in gouache-style by artist Solomon Nui Enos, uses many Hawaiian language sources to provide a balanced perspective of historic events. Many of the heroes such as Mōʻīkeha, Māʻilikūkahi, Kūkaniloko and others helped...
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  • Ḏamurruŋ'puy Mälk Saltwater Skin by McCarthy, Mary E.
    Mary E. McCarthy

    Ḏamurruŋ'puy M舁k Saltwater Skin

    Mary McCarthy is a storyteller, artist, teacher, healer, creative and intuitive who gently plaits her accounts in this exquisite memoir of living and working in remote Arnhem Land. From a young girl, Mary has had a deep connection to the land and to our...
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  • Owen Barfield, Romanticism Come of Age: A Biography by Blaxland-de Lange, Simon
    Simon Blaxland-de Lange

    Owen Barfield, Romanticism Come of Age: A Biography

    "Barfield towers above us all...the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers." --C.S. Lewis"We are well supplied with interesting writers, but Owen Barfield is not content to be merely interesting. His ambition is to set us free from the prison we have made for...
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  • Jefferson's Godfather, the Man Behind the Man: George Wythe, Mentor to the Founding Fathers by Munson, Suzanne Harman
    Suzanne Harman Munson

    Jefferson's Godfather, the Man Behind the Man: George Wythe, Mentor to the Founding Fathers

    Founding Father George Wythe was clearly the most influential teacher in American history, judged by student achievement in high public office. In this groundbreaking book, Suzanne Munson shines a light on Wythe's widespread influence on the country's first platoon of statesmen, those who set...
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  • Autobiography of an Ex-White Man: Learning a New Master Narrative for America by Wolff, Robert Paul
    Robert Paul Wolff

    Autobiography of an Ex-White Man: Learning a New Master Narrative for America

    An intensely personal meditation on the nature of America by a White Philosopher who joined a Black Studies Department and found his understanding of the world transformed by the experience. Autobiography of an Ex-White Man is an intensely personal meditation on the nature of...
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  • My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience by Washington, Booker T.
    Booker T. Washington

    My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience

    The primary voice of the African American community from 1890 to 1915, and the author of Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington was an educator and orator as well as a founder of the Alabama school that developed into Tuskegee University. Washington proposed that...
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  • The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten: A Free Negro in the Slave Era by Forten, Charlotte L.
    Charlotte L. Forten

    The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten: A Free Negro in the Slave Era

    Charlotte L. Forten (1838-1914) was sensitive, intelligent, and educated in the culture and conventions of pre-Civil War America. But one thing distinguished her from other young Philadelphia women: she was black, destined to endure the constant insults that were accorded any person of color...
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  • Fifty Years with Father Hesburgh: On and Off the Record by Schmuhl, Robert
    Robert Schmuhl

    Fifty Years with Father Hesburgh: On and Off the Record

    For over half a century, Robert Schmuhl interviewed and wrote about Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., who served as the president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 until 1987. Beginning as an undergraduate student during the 1960s, when he covered Hesburgh and...
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  • The Schooling of a 21st Century Principal: Connections, Reflections, and Commentaries of an Unwitting School Leader by Cahill, Michael
    Michael Cahill

    The Schooling of a 21st Century Principal: Connections, Reflections, and Commentaries of an Unwitting School Leader

    "The Schooling of a 21st Century Principal" traces the author's journey to the principalship, a career goal nowhere to be found on his bucket list. He took the reins knowing his middle school faced some daunting tasks; however, he would soon discover that it...
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  • Wealthy Me (R) Academy by Tran, Hien Minh Thi
    Hien Minh Thi Tran

    Wealthy Me (R) Academy

    In this Inaugural Edition, Minh Hien and Farshid recall their compelling educational journeys over 40 years in Australia. They interweave stories of their experiences in sponsoring and educating students in rural areas of Vietnam, and in providing scholarships to support refugee students in Tasmania...
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  • Fragments of Time: From a Secure Childhood in Prewar Vienna to the Challenges of Emigration, Adaptation, and Pursuits in Science and in E by Lindenfeld, Peter
    Peter Lindenfeld

    Fragments of Time: From a Secure Childhood in Prewar Vienna to the Challenges of Emigration, Adaptation, and Pursuits in Science and in E

    It was a time of destruction of lives and futures and of rebirth and rebuilding. In his lively style with a wide sweep of insights Peter Lindenfeld recounts his personal and often intimate experiences, a microcosm of life during a time spanning nearly a...
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  • The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children's Rights by Moretti, Erica
    Erica Moretti

    The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children's Rights

    The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori (1870-1952) is best known for the teaching method that bears her name. She was also a lifelong pacifist, although historians tend to consider her writings on this topic as secondary to her pedagogy. In The Best Weapon...
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  • Free Spirit: A Biography of Mason Welch Gross by Gross, Thomas W.
    Thomas W. Gross

    Free Spirit: A Biography of Mason Welch Gross

    The Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey, stands as a memorial to one of Rutgers University's most influential leaders. Gross started teaching at Rutgers as an assistant professor of philosophy in 1946, but quickly rose through the ranks to...
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  • From the Bayou to the Bay: The Autobiography of a Black Liberation Scholar by Smith, Robert C.
    Robert C. Smith

    From the Bayou to the Bay: The Autobiography of a Black Liberation Scholar

    Robert C. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. He is the author of many books, including African American Leadership (coauthored with Ronald W. Walters); John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance; and...
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  • Still Waters in a Storm: The One-Room School Where Everyone Listens to Everyone by Haff, Stephen
    Stephen Haff

    Still Waters in a Storm: The One-Room School Where Everyone Listens to Everyone

    Previously published as Kid Quixotes, the unlikely, inspiring true story of a one-room school where children of undocumented immigrants and their teacher unlock the revolutionary power of listening."Haff paints a picture of what education in America could and perhaps should be. His story is...
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