Biography & Autobiography - Educators

In his preface to this work, Henry Louis Gates Jr. writes, "If you want insight into what's right and what's wrong about the current debate over standards, you'd be well advised to start with the redoubtable Ralph Tyler." Finder's work is the first to...

Starting as a way to cope through the struggles of working in an underfunded system and the second hand system from her students, Katie Doehrmann shares her poetry in a raw and open memoir about her time working for a residential mental health facility.Her...

The story of American higher education, written with insight and humor, by an acclaimed educator. "There's no more important story to be told at this moment in America then why higher education matters. And there's no more adept and engaging storyteller than Sol Gittleman."...

In The Story of My People, Mario Mignone gives eloquent testimony to the hopes, fears, struggles and ultimate triumph of his family's extraordinary journey from rural Italy to the American Dream. He also gives a poignant voice to the millions of other immigrants who...

Long Walk Home is a mixture of Garrison Keillor, Bruce Springsteen, and Billy Graham. It's colloquial, self-effacing, funny, poignant, and true -- a non-religious religious book about fatherhood, grace, and the foolishness of trying to earn what was already freely given. Long Walk Home...

How a visionary university and foundation president tackled some of the thorniest problems facing higher education As provost and then president of Princeton University, William G. Bowen (1933-2016) took on the biggest and most complex challenges confronting higher education: cost disease, inclusion, affirmative action,...

A warped dream, an overbearing father, and his son A handsome, brilliant man, the author's father-irascible, strong-willed, a compulsive womanizer-stands at the center of this strangely compelling story. In the mid-1970s, after a life in government service, which was shadowy in its depths, Ted...

During my lifetime, I've been told well over 100 times that I should write a book, from almost drowning from falling into a horse trough at Age Three, to being escorted out of Montana State Prison through 700 hardened convicts who wanted to kill...

Author: Harriet JacobsISBN-10: 8119007816ISBN-13: 9788119007813Publisher: Sanage Publishing House LlpLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/04/2023Pages: 220Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

When Anger doesn't Heal: From Kuwait to the United States, Teacher's Memoir is a story of emotional struggles stemming from the past. It is also a story of strength, determination, and perseverance, and yet defeat of a teacher who lacks the experience and cultural...

Ivan T. Berend is Distinguished Professor at the University of California Los Angeles, Director of the European Studies Program. He was one of the masterminds of regime change in Hungary. He made a career in Hungary as a university professor, Rector of the University...

"His sober and totally candid memoir is absorbing reading that clearly and personally illuminates the ever more tragic collapse of authentic higher education in America." Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations, The University of Pennsylvania "A Life in History, captures a rare quality...

Tamar Frankel came to America first in 1949 with a group of Israeli military tasked to speak to Jewish communities about the Israeli War of Independence. In 1963, she was invited to be a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. She attended Harvard Law...

The Crystal Pumpkin is an upbeat, uplifting, compelling story which takes the reader on an emotional, historical journey through eighteen years in the life of the author. The book captures the essence of the culture, experiences, struggles, music, entertainment, art, poetry, religion, charm, and...

From hanging an effigy of Old Annie to hunting Minnesota gangsters, a little corn-silk-haired girl with black tarred feet learns about death and life from the characters around her. The "mischief of mice" referenced in her title recall the poverty of her youth, but...

The most influential historian of our time, C. Vann Woodward has forged his place in American learning and culture from two sometimes opposing, sometimes complementary urges: to work for social justice and to reveal the past without bias. Underlying his career has been the...

Tardif is the son of a medical practitioner, an herbalist and a spiritual healer in northwestern Cameroun. When his father eventually gives up his practice, his mother struggles to put him and four of his sisters through high school. But financing university is a...

Picture a woman from Poland who goes to teach English in China, primarily for one year. I don't know a soul, nor do I speak the language. I have no clue about Chinese culture. All I'm certain of is the amount of rice I'm...

Rarely do we see inside the life and mind of a psychiatrist, but that's exactly what we get in With Hope in My Heart: Musings of a Spirited Psychiatrist. With candor and openness, author Fran輟is Mai shares how and why he ventured into psychiatry,...

This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present a biography of Yamato Ichihashi, a Stanford University professor who was one of the first academics of Asian ancestry in the United States. The second purpose is to present, through Ichihashi's wartime writings,...

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" William Louis Poteat (1856-1938), the son of a conservative Baptist slaveholder, became one of the most outspoken southern liberals during his lifetime. He was a rarity in the South for openly teaching evolution beginning in the 1880s, and during his tenure as president...

From humble beginnings in Nashville, Tennessee, formally known as the Country Music Capital of the World and having a population of 170,000, to thriving as an Aristocrat of Bands member and influencing generations through music, Stanley D. Stewart shares his unique story of perseverance,...

Sir John (Jack) Harold Plumb (1911 - 2001) was a great British historian. He led an extraordinary life of startling contrasts, much of it cloaked in secrecy. This memoir attempts to lift that cloak. / This is a very personal account written by Neil...

Maria Montessori appears to be the most famous educator in the world. She really revolutionized the world of education. Another woman had a great impact in the field of education, who wrote and lectured on education much earlier than Maria Montessori. Carefully reading the...

Author: Jenny R. PuckettISBN-10: 1463426240ISBN-13: 9781463426248Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2011Pages: 244Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Valerie Lee is Professor Emerita of English at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Granny Midwives and Black Women Writers: Double-Dutched Readings and the editor of The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Women's Literature.Author: Valerie LeeISBN-10: 1438485840ISBN-13: 9781438485843Publisher: State University...

Ben Jay Drymon describes his life's journey, including his time in the military in Germany and later as a lifelong educator of youth and young adults. His story is told in his own words and feels like he is in the room with you...

In the tradition of The Power of Myth, a conversation with Joseph Campbell that distills the mature wisdom and eclectic spiritual thinking of the world-renowned scholar and mythologist.Author: Michael TomsISBN-10: 0060972955ISBN-13: 9780060972950Publisher: Harper PerennialLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/23/1990Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 7.98h x 5.35w x 0.37d

While studying Chinese and Asian civilizations in college, Sabriye Tenberken was stunned to learn that in Tibet blind children were living in appalling conditions--shunned by society, abandoned, and left to their own devices. Sabriye, who had lost her sight at the age of twelve...

An anthology of vivid and elegiac remembrances of The Korean War as recalled by five senior citizens who, as young boys, witnessed the tragedy and destruction of the so-called "Forgotten War."Author: Yearnhong ChoiISBN-10: 8650361668ISBN-13: 9798650361664Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/12/2020Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.02h x...

After her divorce, Marty Husk decided it was time for a new adventure-not for sadness. So she packed up her two young sons and left her older daughter and mother in Evansville, Indiana, to take a job as a teacher and principal at a...

In The Education of a 20th Century Political Animal III, Arthur Kahn recounts how after returning to New York from a nine-month sojourn in the People's Democracies of Eastern Europe he found himself adrift. Under Truman's loyalty oaths and blacklistings and McCarthyite Cold War...

A true story of the coming-of-age account of a mid-19th century schoolgirl, Laurentine, in Janesville, Wisconsin who became a teacher upon turning 15 years old and was a prolific writer and an insightful chronicler of change and growth in the United States. Keeping a...

Jan was an outstanding teacher who inspired students and teachers alike until multiple sclerosis forced her to retire. In this poignant memoir, Jan's filmmaker husband relates the story of her journey through life and how it was shaped by things both large and small....

When Linda Katehi was six years old, growing up in war-ravaged Greece, she turned to her mother and said, "I do not want to be poor!" Her mother replied: "Then go to school and be a good student. This is the only thing that...

US 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." 1980's national school change leader Ted Sizer commented, "School reform is like moving...

The first part of the book reflects the context of life within the totalitarian systems of Communism and Nazism. The author witnessed the mass deportations under Communism and mass executions of Jews, known as the Holocaust, and other tragic events during WWII, which left...

Pearls and Knots is a grandmother's story about her family, her life's magical moments, and her never-too-late writing journey. Sometimes gripping, sometimes lyrical, always current and humorous, Sarah Schwarcz's tales will hook your imagination and heart. With one foot in the real world and...

The Circle of Memory covers a broad canvas: Subhash Kak's childhood in Kashmir, his scientific career in India and the United States, and vignettes of several prominent scholars. In addition to many personal anecdotes about his family and colleagues, it describes how his research...

William Joseph "Will" Robinson, who in 1943 at the age of 32 became the first African-American coach in the Detroit Public School system (as well as in any school in the entire state of Michigan) was unquestionably a rare and audacious visionary. He always...

Author: Jenny R. PuckettISBN-10: 1463426259ISBN-13: 9781463426255Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2011Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

A major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource for at least a generation. The...

Few people manage to make a true impact on others the way Mike Adams did during his life.As a professor, columnist, and friend, he left an indelible mark on nearly everyone he met, moving them to become the best versions of themselves through his...

In his debut book, Joshua Faden shares his exciting work with students that led to the creation of the confidence-building model. He demonstrates how we can help our children go from resistant to engaged, lifelong learners. By weaving together the journeys of his students...

Gregory Brandt is a nonfiction writer from Austin, Texas. His first book is a memoir about his nontraditional path to a college education. Brandt graduated from the University of Texas in Austin in 2010 with a degree in print journalism.Author: Gregory BrandtISBN-10: 1798673754ISBN-13: 9781798673751Publisher:...

Booker T. Washington was an American political leader, educator and author of African ancestry, best known for his tenure as President of Tuskegee University. In My Larger Education, Washington writes on how he came by his positions on race relations describing the people who...

Named one of Book Riot's BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022 The "devastatingly affecting and moving" true story of a courageous school principal who saw the dangers of Nazi Germany and took drastic steps to save those in harm's way (The Times of London) In 1933,...

"A powerfully moving book . . . You will laugh, you will weep, you will be proud and you will rail." --Charleston News and CourierYamacraw Island was haunting, nearly deserted, and beautiful. Separated from the mainland of South Carolina by a wide tidal river,...

Outspoken New England urbanite Horace Holley (1781-1827) was an unlikely choice to become the president of Transylvania University--the first college established west of the Allegheny Mountains. Many Kentuckians doubted his leadership abilities, some questioned his Unitarian beliefs, and others simply found him arrogant and...