Biography & Autobiography - Educators
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I Changed My NameThis is the autobiography of Jerry Harris Moore, a distinguished educator and civil rights advocate. Jerry grew up in western Arkansas, worked his way through a college eductaion and secured a teaching position at Northside High School in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Jerry was active...
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I Didn't Come Here to Lie: My Life and EducationAn intimate, inspiring memoir by educator and labor union leader Karen Lewis, a formidable fighter, a staunch defender of teachers and students, and a beloved Chicagoan. In 2012, Karen Lewis led the Chicago Teachers Union to a historic strike, challenging the city's powerful mayor...
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I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945Destined to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel's Night as one of the great classics of the Holocaust, I Will Bear Witness is a timeless work of literature, the most eloquent and acute testament to have emerged from...
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Learning in Free FallAmerica's education system is in crisis. Every day in schools across the nation, our children feel the impacts of increasing budget cuts, teacher shortages, and threats to the accessibility of a meaningful and equitable education. But what happens when those leading our classrooms are...
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Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of JapanLearning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small...
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Letters from an AstrophysicistAstrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world's largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by revealing his correspondence with people across...
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Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally UnderpreparedThe award-winning account of how America's educational system fails it students and what can be done about it Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient--these are the stigmas that define America's educationally underprepared. Having grown up poor and been labeled this way, nationally acclaimed educator and author...
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Louis BrailleLittle People, BIG DREAMS Louis Braille explores the life of the remarkable man behind Braille, the tactile reading and writing system. Little Louis was a curious child - always exploring and having adventures. Then one day, while playing in his father's workshop, he had...
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Miseducated: A MemoirAn inspiring memoir of one man's transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate--all by the age of twenty-seven. Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a...
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Oilfield Roughneck to University President: Bruce BensonBruce 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...
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On Great Fields: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and His Fight to Save the UnionNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero."A vital and vivid portrait of an unlikely military hero who played a key role in...
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On This Ground: Hardship and Hope at the Toughest Prep School in AmericaThe remarkable story of hope, determination, and resilience at a celebrated school in Newark, New Jersey, the students who thrive there, and a community that refused to let its children's education become a casualty of a growing racial divide.In 1967, as the city of...
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One Day, All Children...: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the WayFrom her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education in America. In One Day, All Children... , she shares the remarkable story of Teach For America, a non-profit organization that sends outstanding...
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One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season"One Shot at Forever is powerful, inspirational. . . . This isn't merely a book about baseball. It's a book about heart." --Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Boys Will Be Boys and The Bad Guys Won In 1971, a small-town high...
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Portrait of a Presidency: Patterns in My Life as President of The College of New Jersey"Gitenstein's journey as a stunningly successful pioneer in higher education should give us all great hope." -Freeman A. Hrabowski III, UMBC president emeritus; co-author, The Resilient University and The Empowered UniversityAs public opinion began to sour on higher education, Barbara Gitenstein became president of...
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Problem Child: Leading Students Living in Poverty Towards Infinite Possibilities of SuccessDr. Khalid Mumin has lived the educational journey of which he speaks in Problem Child. Growing up in Philadelphia, PA he learned over time that when someone believes in you, it provides the necessary fuel to propel you forward. Once labelled a problem child...
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Science Nonfiction: Behind the Scenes in University ResearchEvery year, the United States spends roughly $60 billion-about one percent of the federal budget-on university research. Though this research has far-reaching effects and benefits the public at large, most people are unaware of the inner workings of academic research. Who bears the risk...
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Science Nonfiction: Behind the Scenes in University ResearchEvery year, the United States spends roughly $60 billion-about one percent of the federal budget-on university research. Though this research has far-reaching effects and benefits the public at large, most people are unaware of the inner workings of academic research. Who bears the risk...
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Show, Don't Tell: A Writer, Her Teacher, and the Power of Sharing Our StoriesFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling writer and author of How to Love an American Man comes a memoir that inspires us to remember the special teachers in our lives and reflect on the change we create when we share our stories. Mrs....
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Silver Linings: My Life Before and After Challenger 7Twenty-five years after the very public tragedy of the space shuttle Challenger, June Scobee Rodgers has written her private story-her winding path through childhood poverty, homelessness, and family dysfunction to her teenage marriage and twenty-six years of love and life with Dick Scobee. This...
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