This is a frontline report from the trenches of American education. It chronicles a fifth grade class and its remarkable teacher.
Case studies
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Author:Kidder, TracySummary: - Author:Doyle, Debbie J.Summary:
Like its predecessors in the Durvile True Cases series, After the Force features true cases and investigations, this time by police officers who have served in municipal, provincial, and federal police services. Stories in this...
- Author:Farquhar, MichaelSummary:
Conmen, tricksters, charlatans, impostors, and down right liars seeking wealth, 15 minutes of fame, or the alleviation of blam rely upon the maxim that "there's a sucker born every minute." A tribe of Stone Age people is discovered in...
- Author:Kingsbury, KarenSummary:
Kingsbury draws on her experience as an adoptive mother to give listeners an inspiring glimpse of adoption--from her own perspective and from the perspective of women, men, and children who have gone through the process.
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Author:Grimaldi, JeremySummary:From the outside looking in, Jennifer Pan seemed like a model daughter living a perfect life. The ideal child, the one her immigrant parents saw, was studying to become a pharmacist at the University of Toronto. But there was a dark,...
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Author:Nasar, SylviaSummary:A Beautiful Mind traces the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash, Jr., from his lonely childhood in West Virginia to his student years at Princeton, where he encountered Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, and a host of other mathematical...
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Author:Short, DonnSummary:Recent cases of teen suicide linked with homophobic bullying have thrust the issue of school safety into the national spotlight. In "Don't Be So Gay!" Queers, Bullying, and Making Schools Safe, Donn Short considers the effectiveness of...
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