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He has worked closely with writing partner David Simon. For HBO, they have collaborated on The Corner, The Wire, Generation Kill, The Plot Against America, and We Own This City. Burns is a former Baltimore police detective for the homicide and narcotics divisions, and a public school teacher. He often draws upon these experiences for his ...
David Judah Simon [1] (born February 9, 1960) is an American author, journalist, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work on The Wire (2002–2008).. He worked for The Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve years (1982–1995), wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991), and co-wrote The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (1997) with Ed Burns.
Lisa Dawn Fuillerat (née Nall; 3 September 1965 – 24 February 2017) [3] was a math teacher. She was born in Hialeah, Florida on September 3, 1965, to Cynthia Hailer and Johnny Nall, studied in the Hialeah High School and obtained a bachelor's degree from Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida. In 1990s, she met her husband, Vincent ...
The parents of a Pennsylvania teacher whose 2011 death was ruled a suicide are claiming their daughter — who was stabbed 20 times — was actually murdered.. Ellen Greenberg, 27, was found dead ...
Sarah Burns is an American author, public speaker, and filmmaker.She is the author of The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding.She is also the co-producer and director for the documentary film The Central Park Five which she co-produced and directed with her husband David McMahon and her father Ken Burns.
Jacki Lyden interviewed Frank McCourt and referred to Teacher Man as an "amusing and grim chronicle" of his life as a high school teacher; she remarked favorably on his use of language in the book, mentioning one phrase about the students "turning pages like lead" when they were not happy. The title of the book emerges from his second day of ...
Critical Strategies for Academic Thinking and Writing, with Malcolm Kiniry (Third Edition, 1997)—a college textbook that outlines six effective strategies for thinking and writing Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook , with Ellen Cushman, Barry Kroll, and Eugene R. Kintgen (2001)—a collection of essays exploring the use and acquisition of ...
On March 11, 2008, an English teacher at Perry Meridian High School in Indianapolis, Indiana, Connie Heermann, was suspended for a year and a half without pay for using the Freedom Writers Diary in her classroom against the wishes of the school board. [2] [3] Administrators objected to racial slurs and sexual content in portions of the book. [4 ...