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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 ...
The book begins as McCourt lands upriver from New York City, and quickly makes his way to New York City with an Irish-American priest on the ship. Friendless and clueless about American customs, he struggles to integrate himself into American blue-collar society, working at laboring jobs while spending his free time reading books. The New York ...
David Murray "Dav" Pilkey Jr. (/ d eɪ v /; born March 4, 1966) [1] is an American comic book writer of children's fiction. He is best known as the author and illustrator of the children's book series Captain Underpants and its spin-off children's graphic novel series Dog Man, the latter published under the respective writer and illustrator pen names of George Beard and Harold Hutchins, which ...
Peter Anthony Scott Farquhar (3 January 1946 – 26 October 2015) was a British teacher of English who taught at Manchester Grammar School and Stowe School. He later lectured at Buckingham University .
In the book Teacher in America (1945), Barzun influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States. A professor of history at Columbia College for many years, he published more than forty books, was awarded the American Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was designated a knight of the French Legion of Honor.
Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who eschewed digital technology, including personal computers, mobile devices, and cruise control in cars, and was critical of uses of technology, such as personal computers in school. [1]
John Corcoran (/ ˈ k ɔːr k ər ən / KOR-kər-ən; born in 1939) is an American author and the founder of the John Corcoran foundation.He is severely dyslexic and read at a second-grade level until the age of 48. [1]
Understanding and developing science teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (2nd ed.). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. ISBN 978-94-6091-788-2. Ma, Liping (2010). Knowing and teaching elementary mathematics: Teachers' understanding of fundamental mathematics in China and the United States (Anniversary ed.). New York: Routledge.