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The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education is a non-fiction book by Diane Ravitch, originally published in 2010 by Basic Books, [3] with revised and expanded versions reprinted over the years. [4] [5]
The Years (French: Les Années) is a 2008 non-fiction book by Annie Ernaux.It has been described as a "hybrid" memoir, spanning the period of 1941 to 2006. [1] [2] [3] Ernaux's English publisher, Seven Stories Press, described it as an autobiography that is "at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective."
There had been a long practice beginning in the Roman Empire to the modern nation states of providing pension to those who had served in the military. [2]Cotton Mather, the 18th century New England Puritan minister and author, proposed that elderly people should be "pleased with the retirement which you are dismissed into".
Eastern High School, Washington, D.C. - Circa 1899. School dress codes have changed significantly over the years. Back in the late 1800s, women were expected to wear full-coverage blouses and ...
[1] [3] His father, Charles E. Tuttle Sr., published African-American literature and dealt in rare books, and also worked closely with the Vermont Historical Society. [1] [4] Tuttle attended local schools, the Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard University for his education. [1] At university, he studied American history and literature. [1]
Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools. First published in 1967, it won the National Book Award [4] and sold more than two million copies. It describes his year of teaching in the Boston Public School System. Reissue ISBN 0-452-26292-5; Free Schools (1972) ISBN 0-395-13606-7
This novel spans 30 years and is told in an experimental format, with chapters written in various styles. If you're looking for a book that will both mentally challenge and emotionally destroy you ...
James Tock was born in Snow County Hospital in Colorado and at the exact moment his grandfather, Josef Tock, a pastry chef, dies of a stroke.Though crippled by a stroke earlier in the week, moments before his death, Josef recovers miraculously to impart on his son Rudy ten cryptic predictions: among them that his grandchild will be named James—but that everyone will call him Jimmy.