Biography & Autobiography - Educators
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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod BethuneAn intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America's towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation When Mary McLeod Bethune died, tributes...
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A Personal OdysseyThis is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry....
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A Teacher's War: To Iraq and Back with the Inchon ScoutsAfter September 11, Bill Arnold felt torn between two obligations: his family at home and the Marines deploying to war. He deployed, though leaving his family was the hardest decision he'd ever made.In 2004, Major Arnold deployed to Fallujah as commander of Scout Platoon,...
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AfropessimismPraised as "a trenchant, funny, and unsparing work of memoir and philosophy" (Aaron Robertson, ?Literary Hub), Frank B. Wilderson's Afropessimism arrived at a moment when protests against police brutality once again swept the nation. Presenting an argument we can no longer ignore, Wilderson insists...
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Always There, Always Gone: A Daughter's Search for TruthFor fans of Natasha Trethewey and Maggie Smith, a mother-daughter story of multigenerational trauma, grief, discovery, and love, with the backdrops of an historic American tragedy and an iconic family business, written in lyrical, fragmented form. In 1960, six years before Marty Ross-Dolen was...
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American Trojan: Leadership, Resilience, and the Renewal of Higher EducationAmerican Trojan is the captivating story of a refugee who lost everything and then rebuilt it all, an immigrant who defied the odds and achieved the American Dream; a visionary technologist who transformed the University of Southern California into one of the nation's most...
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An Education: How I Changed My Mind about Schools and Almost Everything ElseFor 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...
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An Ordinary White: My Antiracist EducationA prize-winning historian details his intellectual and political evolution Written by the author of the landmark book The Wages of Whiteness and one of the key figures in the critical study of race and racism in America, An Ordinary White is the life story...
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Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-RacistWilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britain's great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world were galvanized by the moral power of a modest Quaker teacher who never ventured more than a few miles from his home in Philadelphia: Anthony...
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Battle Ground Academy - Voices From Back in the DayBattle Ground Academy was established in 1889 in Franklin, Tennessee, and struggled for decades to survive. Through a series of narratives from former students, the book chronicles those struggles, and captures what it was like to attend the school during a period of time...
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Beautiful Child: The True Story of a Child Trapped in Silence and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on HerFrom the bestselling author of One Child comes this amazing, true story of a mute and withdrawn seven--year--old girl and the special education teacher determined never to abandon a child in need.Seven-year-old Venus Fox never spoke, never listened, never even acknowledged the presence of...
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Coach of the BuildingCoach of the Building chronicles the career of Richard Carty, an educator in Pennsylvania whose three decades in education included coaching, serving as a school disciplinarian, planning and facilitating the opening of a new high school, and later transitioning into the elementary school level...
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Dreams and Shadows: An Immigrant's JourneyEmma Violand-Sánchez knew little English when she arrived in Virginia from Bolivia in the summer of 1961 as a high school senior. In the decades that followed, she would lose a husband in Vietnam, raise two children as a single mother, and become a...
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Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First YearA must-read for parents, new teachers, and classroom veterans, Educating Esmé is the exuberant diary of Esmé Raji Codell's first year teaching in a Chicago public school. Fresh-mouthed and free-spirited, the irrepressible Madame Esmé-as she prefers to be called-does the cha-cha during multiplication tables,...
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Family Conscience: A Memoir of Four GenerationsThis memoir explores the role of conscience in four generations during a century of family history. It begins with the suicide of Barbour's maternal grandfather and the impact of this traumatic event. Later chapters describe his interactions with other grandparents, parents, two uncles, siblings,...
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Finding Happy: A User's Guide to Your Life, with Lessons from MineA master class for anyone seeking to Find Happy in a dizzying world Almost everyone looks back on their life and thinks, "I wish I knew then what I know now...." This is a book for those starting out on their life's journey and...
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Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child in Desperate Peril-And a Teacher Who Saved HerFrom the bestselling author of One Child comes this compelling, true story of a child in desperate peril and the teacher who saved her despite the odds.Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie...
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God, Country, Notre Dame: The Autobiography of Theodore M. HesburghExperience Father Hesburgh's life story in his own words in God, Country, Notre Dame.As an adviser to presidents, special envoy to popes, theologian, author, educator, and activist, Father Hesburgh was considered the most influential priest in America for decades. His autobiography brings his phenomenal...
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Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard"The rare book that has the potential to make you smarter--and everyone around you wiser." --Adam Grant Two-time world champion debater and former coach of the Harvard debate team, Bo Seo tells the inspiring story of his life in competitive debating and reveals the...
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Greenlights#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE - Now in paperback with exclusive new content! The life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award-winning actor's unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about...
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