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The gifted school
Holsinger, Bruce W
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Wise and addictive... The Gifted School is the juiciest novel I've read in ages... a suspenseful, laugh-out-loud page-turner and an incisive inspection of privilege, race and class." -J. Courtney Sullivan, author of Friends...
The Hawthorne School a novel
Perry, Sylvie
Paper Book
Claudia is overwhelmed. She's a single parent trying her best, but her 4-year-old son, Henry, is a handful. When Claudia hears about a school with an atypical teaching style near her Chicagoland home, she has to visit. The Hawthorne School is beautiful and has everything she dreams of for Henry -...
School, the story of American public education
Bernard, Sheila Curran.
Paper Book
This text is a companion volume to the four-part PBS documentary series of the same name. Essays by five historians of American education examine the history of the American public school system, from colonial times to the present. They consider a variety of issues faced by educators, parents,...
Admissions a memoir of surviving boarding school
James, Kendra
Paper Book
NAMED A BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE "[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she -- or any Black student, or all Black students -- would manage the failures of a...
The school for good mothers a novel
Chan, Jessamine
Paper Book
Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize Selected as One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2022! In...
High school confidential secrets of an undercover student
Iversen, Jeremy.
Paper Book
It's Spring Semester in Southern California, and twenty-four-year-old Stanford grad Jeremy Iversen is forsaking a dreary future of New York investment banking to go on the adventure of a lifetime. With a new wardrobe and the blessing of the school principal, he transfers into Mirador High, going...
A most tolerant little town the explosive beginning of school desegregation
Martin, Rachel Louise, 1980- author.
Paper Book
A "masterful" (Taylor Branch) and "striking" (The New Yorker) portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history--about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of Brown v....
The teachers a year inside America's most vulnerable, important profession
Robbins, Alexandra, 1976- author.
Paper Book
A National Bestseller *Winner of the 2024 DKG International Educators Book Award* A riveting, must-read, year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what's really going on behind school doors, by New York Times...
The art of teaching children all I learned from a lifetime in the classroom
Done, Phillip
Paper Book
An essential guide for teachers and parents that's destined to become a classic, The Art of Teaching Children is one of those rare and masterful books that not only defines a craft but offers a magical reading experience. After more than thirty years in the classroom,...

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