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In Science Nonfiction: Behind the Scenes in University Research, scientist and educator Darren J. Lipomi offers an insider’s account of how scientific discovery works in the real world. Drawing on two decades inside elite laboratories and public universities, he explains how discovery is funded, who bears the risk, and why the people doing the most creative work often occupy the most precarious positions.

For many years, Diane Ravitch was among the country’s leading conservative thinkers on education. The cure for what ailed the school system was clear, she believed: high-stakes standardized testing, national standards, accountability, competition, charters, and vouchers. Then Ravitch saw what happened when these ideas were put into practice and recanted her long-held views. The problem was not bad teachers or failing schools, as conservatives claimed, but poverty.

Misto de guia literário e romance de formação, É tempo de morangos entrelaça memórias da infância da autora, passagens de sua adolescência e da vida adulta com clássicos da língua portuguesa. Criada em São Bernardo do Campo (SP), ainda menina Bruna Martiolli brincava de dar aulas para suas bonecas. Mais tarde, acabou se tornando professora e encontrando seu lugar no mundo graças aos livros.

A debut memoirist reflects on his career as a high school teacher and coach in this essay collection... The topics include the author’s experiences coaching multiple sports and the differences between teaching at private versus public schools... Burke eschews a standard chronological narrative for a more reflective approach that positions autobiographical vignettes as metaphors for the themes and lessons that undergirded his career...

There are moments in history that can only be understood in hindsight. And then there are moments like this one— when the change is happening so fast, so deeply, and so quietly, that we are living inside it without fully realizing it. This audiobook exists in such a moment. Over the last seventy years, the United States—and the world—has undergone transformations that once would have taken centuries. Entire industries have risen and disappeared. Ways of working, communicating, learning, and building have been reinvented again and again. What was once physical became mechanical.

This audiobook offers a glimpse into a teacher's experiences as she transitions from elementary to junior high teaching. Every School Day is a New Day: Transferring to the Jr. High Book Two provides insight into the educational journey of young teenagers. The atmosphere and environment are completely different, with various experiences. These were the most rewarding moments in teaching students from all the elementary schools in the district. Discover the short stories of the teacher's adventures throughout her career and beyond. Enjoy!

This audiobook offers a glimpse into a teacher's experiences in the classroom. Every School Day is a New Day, providing a peek into the educational journey beyond textbooks. Although you may teach the same subjects and units each year, every school year introduces new students with unique experiences. Discover the short stories of the teacher's adventures throughout her career and beyond. Enjoy!

A powerful and moving memoir about how the youth detention system is letting down our most desperate and damaged kids, and how one rookie teacher fought the system on their behalf. Explosive, heart-breaking, inspiring. What happens when your first teaching job isn't in a classroom - but in...

Quem leu, estudou, conviveu ou trabalhou com Magda Soares certamente teve sua vida marcada por sua presença. Um dos grandes nomes da educação brasileira – talvez o maior –, ela trabalhou por seus ideais até os últimos dias. Autora de obras clássicas, especialmente na área de alfabetização e letramento, ela fazia questão de estar próxima ao chão da escola.

In Testing Education, Kathy Greeley recounts the impact of education reform from a teacher's point of view. Based on a teaching career ranging nearly forty years, Greeley details how schools went from learning communities infused with excitement, intellectual stimulation, and joy to sterile spaces of stress, intimidation, and fear. In this ultimately hopeful memoir, Greeley asks us to learn from the past to reimagine the future of public education.

Ever wondered what it’s like to be a supply teacher? This is the book for you! Artist and illustrator Guy Newmountain, a time-served teacher at the chalk-face for 25 years and a familiar sight to thousands of pupils across the spectrum from nursery to sixth form, tells a succession of school-related anecdotes with a healthy dose of self-deprecating humour. Some are hysterically funny and a few sad; others heart-stopping and deadly serious…

From a document in storage, passed down through the family, this story tells about the life of the early Michigan pioneer who, as Treasurer of Hillsdale College, lived through a very important era.

Through Old Ground is a collection of stories from the life of Dr. Randy Cross, a small-town Southerner turned English professor and author, most notable for his work with T. S. Stribling’s autobiography, The Laughing Stock. Dr. Cross grew up in St. Joseph, Tennessee, where he gained the strong foundation upon which he relied throughout his adventures as a two-time Fulbright Scholar and beyond.

The story of Musahib Ud-Din Khan is not a run of the mill tale of rags to riches. It is rather an inspirational narrative about the potential of education as a vehicle for upward mobility and for realization of individual potential in the face of poverty and adversity. The success of Professor Khan as a scholar and contributor to nation building is worth listening to. He lived, struggled and triumphed in a very difficult time in a newly minted postcolonial nation of Pakistan strapped for resources and opportunities.

Glimpses of a Public Ivy is a collection of vignettes of life at William & Mary, America's second oldest college, from 1950 through 2000. Written by an award winning professor, the stories include extraordinary achievement, humorous incidents, unique characters and memories of day-to day life at the historic university. Holmes uses his own experience as a professor, along with interviews with faculty, alumni and staff, to paint a detailed, fond and rich picture which will inspire and amuse anyone with ties to William & Mary or any collegiate setting.

In this inspiring memoir and self-improvement book, Dr. Kristy Singer-MacNair shares her remarkable journey from being a little girl in idyllic 1950's Modesto, California, to pursuing higher education in Santa Barbara and San Diego, in the norm-bending 1970's, to her over 30-year career helping special education students achieve their potential.

A través de esta publicación, descubriremos a esta intelectual y activista que dedicó su vida a la educación y a la lucha social, desde sus inicios en su querida Chincha, la formación de la primera institución femenina peruana Evolución Femenina, sus grandes luchas por el indígena y por la niñez hasta su exilio y sus últimos días prácticamente en el olvido. Esta biografía está dirigida a un público juvenil y a aquellos lectores que quieran conocer más sobre una de las mujeres con mayores aportes a la cultura de nuestro país.

Frederick Jackson Turner, American historian during the early twentieth century, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until 1910, and then at Harvard University. He was known primarily for his frontier thesis. He trained many PhDs who went on to become well-known historians. He promoted interdisciplinary and quantitative methods, often with an emphasis on the Midwestern United States.

Friday the 13th was the last time she felt fully in control of all her limbs. At 1 a.m. on Saturday, her world as she had known it ended... She was fully awake and trying not to freak out at the thought of something foreign travelling up into her body to roam around inside her brain? Is there really a purpose to all this pain? She asked, "Where is GOD when I'm suffering during the agonizingly long wait?"

In March 2005, Dr. Steven Berk was kidnapped in Amarillo, Texas, by a dangerous and enigmatic criminal who entered his home, armed with a shotgun, through an open garage door. Dr. Berk's experiences and training as a physician, especially his understanding of Sir William Osler's treatise on aequanimitas, enabled him to keep his family safe, establish rapport with his kidnapper, and bring his captor to justice.