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"Essential reading."— KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR "A must read."—KAI BIRD "In a time of terminal cynicism, Pawel gives us hope."—JERRY BROWN Pulitzer Prize winner Miriam Pawel’s epic history of one of the world’s elite public universities, its sweeping social impact, and hopeful lessons about...

Georgine had built a life of careful control. As a wife, mother, and college professor, she minimized risk and played by the rules. Her attorney husband was successful, her four grown daughters were thriving, and her students knew that hard work and deadlines mattered. Having survived a...

Herr Reff ist Ethiklehrer in einem Berliner Brennpunktbezirk und ein Social-Media-Phänomen mit über 1 Million Follower:innen. In seinem ersten Hörbuch gewährt er einen tiefen, persönlichen Einblick in seine Biografie: Er hat selbst erlebt, wie es sich anfühlt, als Problemschüler abgestempelt zu werden und kann deshalb den Jugendlichen von heute auf Augenhöhe begegnen. Seine Art, solide Werte im Klassenzimmer und auf Social-Media zu vermitteln, vermittelt Hoffnung.

A Story of Discovery, Insight, and Acceptance When James English first hears about Quaker meetings inside Rhode Island’s prison system in 1994, he is not looking for a ministry. He is searching for something harder to name. Drawn by the Quaker belief in the inner light—the idea that goodness...

If you're an educator, you already know the job can feel impossible. The students are distracted, parents are demanding, bureaucracy is exhausting, and somewhere along the way, the calling that once lit you up may have started feeling like a burden. But what if burnout isn't the end of your story? What if it's the invitation to become one of the great ones?

Spontan sein, etwas Verrücktes unternehmen, ohne lange darüber nachzudenken. Sich trauen und das Unbekannte wagen. Genau das habe ich getan. Ich habe mich auf ein Abenteuer eingelassen, welches ich nie wieder vergessen werde. Als Englischlehrerin für Grundschulkinder in Thailand erlebte Nicole-Kristin in zehn Wochen aufregende, lustige und bewegende Augenblicke.

Take Care of Your Own Shit is the memoir of a man who grew up between California and Denmark, with a father who could charm a room and terrorize it in the same week; who drifted through janitor work and songwriting before finding his way to Tokyo; and who spent twenty years teaching immigrant students—students who had crossed deserts and sewers and borders to sit in his classroom—and learned something harder to name in return.

Bruce Benson was a man in a hurry. Born on the Fourth of July, he drew on a fierce work ethic learned on a World War II-era farm outside Chicago to propel him through his eventful and remarkable life. He overcame an early family upheaval and elusive educational success to attend an Ivy League university. Unsatisfied, he left school and hitchhiked West, where he worked as a roughneck in the Wyoming oil patch. He learned rigs from the ground up before earning a Geology degree at the University of Colorado, where he learned the science of what was below ground.

Toufiq A. Siddiqi was born in Hyderabad, India, and studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge University, England. He received his Ph. D. in Nuclear Physics from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany. In 1967 he and his wife Ulrike emigrated to the United States where he continued his research at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. During this time, he began to shift his focus from physics to environmental sciences, driven by the developing public environmental awareness at that time.

An inspiring story of music and history, as well as community and connection! Minnesota journalist and essayist Joy Riggs probes her own family history to reveal how 20th century Midwestern towns once competed for respect, recognition, and renown by mustering talented bands of youth and other musicians. Through times of war, peace, economic hardship, and personal tragedy, Riggs's "Crackerjack Bands and Hometown Boosters" follows the career of her great-grandfather G. Oliver, his talented wife Islea, and their children. The bandleader and former "Conn man"—a sales representative of the C.G.

Con solo diecinueve años, David R. Carrillo se enfrentaba a una condena de cadena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad condicional. Encarcelado en algunas de las prisiones más violentas de Colorado, sobrevivió a las políticas de las pandillas, al aislamiento y al peso aplastante de una sentencia que prometía que moriría entre rejas. Pero en los lugares más oscuros, descubrió un camino inesperado: la educación, la responsabilidad y la transformación.

A retirement book that finally tells the truth. After forty-seven years in education, including three elected terms as a County Superintendent of Schools, Michael retired in December of 2025 and began writing about the transition while it was still fresh. The result is a warm, unhurried, and quietly funny guide for anyone who is recently retired, about to retire, or quietly wondering whether retirement is going to be the thing they hoped for. This is not a financial planning book.

Discover this collection of passionate, true stories about one of the most admirable professions from Sunday Times bestselling author. A perfect gift for teachers, parents and readers everywhere. Teachers are the everyday heroes who shape our lives - often without recognition. In these powerful...

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...

En los últimos setenta años, Estados Unidos —y el mundo— ha experimentado transformaciones que antes habrían tomado siglos. Industrias enteras han surgido y desaparecido. Las formas de trabajar, comunicarse, aprender y construir se han reinventado una y otra vez. Lo que antes era físico se volvió mecánico. Lo que era mecánico se convirtió en digital. Y ahora, lo que es digital se está volviendo inteligente.

Een ode aan leraren, met persoonlijke verhalen over hun invloed op het onderwijs en de zoektocht naar betekenis tijdens de schooltijd, vol reflecties over groei, uitdagingen en hoop.

From his days at Princeton University as a member of the faculty, dean, and provost, and his time as a faculty member and president at Harvard University, Neil L. Rudenstine has been uniquely positioned to observe the changes that have occurred in higher education over the past few decades. In...

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...

In this heartfelt and often humorous collection of true stories, an English teacher and mother invites listeners behind the scenes of life with ADHD—not as a clinical case study, but as a lived experience full of challenges, breakthroughs, tears, triumphs, and the occasional fire-related trauma. Drawing from over twenty years of teaching, early childhood intervention work, and parenting through a labyrinth of labels she once barely understood, she reveals how the traits that culture often misjudges can bloom into strengths when seen through the right lens.

'Francis is doing for teaching what This is Going to Hurt did for medicine. Brutal, honest and laugh-out-loud funny.' Jimmy Carr 'A great subject covered by a guy unafraid to tell it like it is' Geoff Norcott The class weren't laughing with me, they were laughing at me and there is no lonelier...