About 60 titles here covering a wide range of subjects all related to your child's schooling. Every parent will want to have a couple of these books at hand for those quiet times.
by Edward Humes. ISBN: 0156030071 "The pressure to succeed in our nation's most competitive public high schools is often crushing. Striving to understand this insular world, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes spent a year at California's Whitney High, a school so renowned that parents move across town-and across the world-hoping to enroll their children.
by Alfie Kohn ISBN: 0395940397 "Teacher-turned-writer Alfie Kohn takes on traditional-education giants like E.D. Hirsch, along with practically every state government 'raising the bar' and toughening standards, in this attack on the back-to-basics movement.
by David Abram. ISBN: 0679776397 "This is a landmark book. Scholars will doubtless recognize its brilliance, but they may overlook the most important part of Dave Abram's achievement: he has written the best instruction manual yet for becoming fully human.
by John Knowles ISBN: 0743253973 "At a New England boarding school during World War II, a group of boys discover the depths of human nature among themselves, and the evil that even the most innocent is capable of."
by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip. ISBN: 0671899333 "A provocative memoir that goes to the heart of our American identity as Haizlip (owner of a public-relations firm), while searching for her mother's family--blacks who passed for whites- -confronts the deeply intertwined but often suppressed tensions between race and skin color.
ISBN: 9780375404047 Critically acclaimed book by the president of Harvard University, Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust. "The author of Mothers of Invention assesses the devastating impact of the enormous carnage of the Civil War on every aspect of American life from a material, political, intellectual, cultural, social, and spiritual perspective, from the logistical challenges of burying the battlefield dead to the evolution of a federal system of national cemeteries."
by Parker J. Palmer ISBN: 0060664517 "This primer on authentic education explores how mind and heart can work together in the learning process. Moving beyond the bankruptcy of our current model of education, Palmer finds the soul of education in a lifelong cultivation of the wisdom each of us posseses and can share to benefit others.
by Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe ISBN: 0871203138 "This book is excellent reading for teachers, school administrators, and school district managers who are truly interested and concerned with student achievement.
by Ilana Debare 9781585422890 "A history of the phenomenon of girls' school in America is accompanied by the author's personal account of building a school that celebrates the benefits of single-sex education, an insightful overview of the modern-day debate over single-sex education, profiles of girls' school across the country, and interviews with alumnae about their experiences."
