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The review in Kirkus Reviews is more positive, finding rich material in McCourt's growth as a teacher of high school students in New York City. Recalling the prior book 'Tis: A Memoir and its style, "The same dark humor, lyric voice and gift for dialogue are apparent here". McCourt begins with the scary first day of teaching his own class at a ...
Guy Owen (February 24, 1925 – July 25, 1981) was a professor of English who produced many different types of literary works. [1]He was born in Clarkton, Bladen County, North Carolina, and grew up on a tobacco farm.
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.
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a 1995 book by James W. Loewen that critically examines twelve popular American high school history textbooks. [1] In the book, Loewen concludes that the textbook authors propagate false, Eurocentric , and mythologized views of American history .
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Jack Sheffield (born Jack Linley, 1945 in Leeds [1]) is a British author who wrote a series of novels about the headmaster of a school in a fictional Yorkshire village. The stories are set from the late 1970s to the early 1980s and attempt to portray life in Yorkshire as it was at that time.
FX’s English Teacher, though — premiering Monday, Sept. 2 at 10/9c; I’ve seen the first three episodes — bravely wades into those choppy waters and finds plenty of laughs there by taking a ...