Category: Education.

In American Sign Language, "train go sorry" means "missing the boat." Leah Hager Cohen uses the phrase as shorthand for the myriad missed connections between the deaf and the hearing. Yet in this stunning work of journalism and memoir she also forges new connections. As she ushers readers into New York's Lexington School for the Deaf, Cohen (whose grandfather was deaf and whose father was the school's superintendent) conveys the intimate truths of this silent but articulate world.
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Smart Kids, Bad Schools: 38 Ways To Save America's Future

By: Crosby, Brian

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books, 2008:

Seller ID: BB0258986

ISBN: 0312372582

Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Condition: vg/vg

In "Smart Kids, Bad Schools, " award-winning author and educator Brian Crosby draws on his twenty years as a high school English teacher to offer a candid appraisal of why our schools are failing and what we must do to save them. Crosby's no-holds-barred critique of the broken education system leaves no stone unturned: he is unapologetic and uncompromising in his expose of how teachers, administrators, unions, and parents all play a part in this national tragedy.

Crosby offers 38 ideas to save America's future and his proposed remedies are revolutionary. He recommends bold measures, ...
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Teachers have it easy

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York : New Press : c2005.:

Seller ID: BB0242753

ISBN: 1565849558

Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Condition: vg/vg

A passionate call to action for improving the working lives of public school teachers cites the typically low wages of today's educators and the consequences of current policies on the quality of education, sharing the personal stories of teachers from across the country, an analysis of typical public school working conditions, and misconceptions a
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Chairing An Academic Department

By: Gmelch, Walter H. ; Val Miskin

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Atwood Publishing, 2004:

Seller ID: BB0260700

ISBN: 1891859528

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: vg

Excellence Without a Soul : Does Liberal Education Have a Future?

By: Lewis, Harry R.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: PublicAffairs, 506:

Seller ID: BB0252683

ISBN: 1586483935

Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Condition: vg/vg

America's great research universities are the envy of the world--and none more so than Harvard. Never before has the competition for excellence been fiercer. But while striving to be unsurpassed in the quality of its faculty and students, Universities have forgotten that the fundamental purpose of undergraduate education is to turn young people into adults who will take responsibility for society. In Excellence Without a Soul, Harry Lewis, a Harvard professor for more than thirty years and Dean of Harvard College for eight, draws from his experience to explain how our great universities...
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Educational Research: A Guide To The Process

By: Norman E. Wallen

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Routledge, 2001:

Seller ID: BB0262157

ISBN: 0805832807

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: vg

Light shelf-wear. Text is clean and unmarked.
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A framework for understanding poverty

By: Payne, Ruby K.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Highlands, Tex. : Aha! Process, 2005.:

Seller ID: BB0249987

ISBN: 1929229488

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: vg+

A nice clean copy.
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A framework for understanding poverty

By: Payne, Ruby K.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Highlands, Tex. : Aha! Process, 2005.:

Seller ID: BB0250049

ISBN: 1929229488

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: vg+

A nice clean copy.
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Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide To Earning a Master's or a PH.D.

By: Peters, Robert ; Robert L. Peters

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 1997:

Seller ID: BB0251262

ISBN: 0374524777

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: vg

Is graduate school right for you?
Should you get a master's or a Ph.D.?
How can you choose the best possible school?

This classic guide helps students answer these vital questions and much more. It will also help graduate students finish in less time, for less money, and with less trouble.

Based on interviews with career counselors, graduate students, and professors, Getting What You Came For is packed with real-life experiences. It has all the advice a student will need not only to survive but to thrive in graduate school, including: instructions on applying to...
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Yo Miz!

By: Rose, Elizabeth

Price: $10.00

Publisher: By Any Other Name Publishing, 2015:

Seller ID: BB0263060

ISBN: 0990439216

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: g

What's really going on in our public school classrooms? Good question. - Journalists are not allowed in... - Teachers risk punishment if they speak out... - School administrators will only share the good stuff... - Most lawmakers? Clueless. Yo Miz has the answer. Yo Miz is the seriously funny memoir of an unconventional "edu-tainer," ejected from her home school and assigned to teach at 25 Manhattan public high schools in one wacky year. Yo Miz is about the kids. From el barrio to Wall Street, they're all present...speaking in their ow...
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