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THE LIST: Catch up on 2024’s most illuminating life stories, encompassing tales of recovery, literary feuds and devastating betrayal, with Katie Rosseinsky’s edit of the best memoirs and ...
Educating Peter is a 1992 American short documentary film directed by Gerardine Wurzburg about Peter Gwazdauskas, a special needs student with Down syndrome, and his inclusion in a standard third grade classroom in Blacksburg, Virginia.
His mother worked long hours primarily in school and hospital cafeterias and sacrificed to send her son to St. Benedict's Preparatory School, a private middle and high school. There, he excelled academically (4.0 GPA) and athletically (captaining the swimming and water polo teams) and upon graduation was the school’s student body leader and ...
Taylor Mali spent nine years teaching English, history, and math, including stints at Browning School, a boys' school on the Upper East Side of New York City, and Cape Cod Academy, a K-12 private school on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He now lectures and conducts workshops for teachers and students all over the world.
John Taylor Gatto (December 15, 1935 [3] – October 25, 2018 [4]) was an American author and school teacher.After teaching for nearly 30 years he authored several books on modern education, criticizing its ideology, history, and consequences.
This week, read the “bone biographies” of medieval Cambridge, learn why chinstrap penguins take thousands of naps, peer inside a mysterious galactic cloud, and more.
12. American Pharoah: The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner's Legendary Rise by Joe Drape. Written by an award-winning New York Times sportswriter, American Pharoah is the definitive account ...
Melba Joy Patillo Beals (née Pattillo; born December 7, 1941) is an American journalist and educator who was a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of black students who were the first to racially integrate Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.