Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
Three black women shattered the academic ceiling at all-white Ivy League institutions a century ago. The trio of Sadie Mossell (Alexander), Georgiana Simpson, and Eva Dykes faced massive obstacles to do the impossible: become the first black women to earn PhDs.
Sadie Tanner Mossell entered the University of Pennsylvania at 17-years-old in 1915.
"Not one woman spoke to me in class or when I passed one or more than one woman on the walks to College...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Do you know that you have something people all over the world want ”your language?" began a radio announcement that would be a life-changing experience for Maralie Akers, a middle-aged high school teacher with empty nest syndrome. Two summers teaching English to Chinese English teachers gave opportunity to see Chinese life in both a rural and urban setting, along with a unique teaching curriculum and dialogue with young adult students. Akers felt...
Author
Language
English
Description
The most turbulent period in the history of Wake Forest University (1941-1967) was also the most startlingly productive. This era began in eastern North Carolina, in the decade of the 1940's, when the school came perilously close to extinction, but it fought to survive. In 1946, a stunning offer to revive the school was accepted, but Wake Forest knew that the massive changes ahead would require a type of leader as yet unseen in its 116 years of existence....
Author
Language
English
Description
Transcended, O how transcended! Who would have thought that an African village boy born into a belligerent polygamous family and raised in inner-city slums would ever develop a thriving scientific career around the globe? My mother, though uneducated, correctly predicted that godly fear, education, and self-control is the only avenue by which an indigent son can be lifted from poverty. We battled leaking roofs whenever it rained, and food was always...
Author
Language
English
Description
Every once in a while, out of nowhere, a very special person appears with the courage and conviction to change the destiny of others. Such a person is Ned O'Gorman. Wandering in Harlem one day, Ned saw an abandoned storefront and there he met his calling and future: he would start a tuition-free school for the underprivileged.
Author
Language
English
Description
Bryan "Griz" Feisel is passionate about the outdoors. Bryan takes you on a journey of not only bowhunting for white-tailed deer but several species including turkey, predators, and small game. Bryan has developed unique methods of harvesting and processing these animals. Please take this journey with Bryan and us.
Author
Language
English
Description
From the Barrio to the Beach is a novel about two public schools that are separated by a short fifteen-mile stretch of Interstate 5. In his novel, Rey Hernandez shares an incredible and revealing look at the challenges educators face as they strive to close the disparity in academic performance between two distinct groups of students. He provides a unique glimpse into his professional and personal life and gives the reader a detailed account of the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Kinfolk is Michael H. Goodwyn's true story of his quest to learn his family's heritage following several family tragedies. In that process, Goodwyn learns his family members have been leaders in education, business, and banking dating back six generations to George Washington's second term of office. Told in an honest, straightforward contemporary style, Kinfolk is those ancestors' stories, the true story of an American family's tragedies and triumphs,...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Este libro es un homenaje a aquellas personas avanzadas a su época, que se unieron y conformaron un precioso proyecto de renovación pedagógica en España, que la guerra civil defenestró.
Jacobo Orellana Garrido, protagonista de este relato, contribuyó de manera destacada a tal empresa. Con su trabajo y sacrificio, luchó para que este país pudiera salir del analfabetismo en el que se encontraba más de la mitad de su población.
Trajo de Europa...
Author
Language
English
Description
Do we really invent ourselves? Can't we just blame others? Or luck? Or fate? Does it really matter how we got here? Probably not. Nevertheless, the question intrigues. Others produce biographies of most famous people, often centuries after they have passed on. What a shame, for the subject misses the opportunity to examine the many "whys." This personal assessment is the challenge I have accepted. Stop for a minute and consider the speed at which...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Landing On My Feet, Teaching and Learning During a Career in Education" is a memoir written by James Kleiner, a career educator in the Connecticut public schools for 33 years. The book chronicles his own education and pays tribute to the teachers who mentored and inspired him. His story takes him through the challenges he was faced with and, ultimately, overcame through the years. In every case, he learns from these experiences and continues in the...
Author
Language
English
Description
For over twenty years, award-winning short story writer and novelist Peter Markus has made his living teaching creative writing in the Detroit Public Schools. As a teaching artist with Detroit's longest enduring literary non-profit - InsideOut Literary Arts Project - Markus has inspired thousands of students to become believers in the power of words, armed with nothing but an ordinary pencil - the same beat-up, unsharpened pencil Markus has carried...
Author
Language
English
Description
Tracie's book is an autobiography that is told from her perspective, a "brownish" local girl, born and raised in Hawaii. The words "Tita Ē" describes a girl who is born and raised in the islands and is an expression of warm regard toward a female of the islands. It is a reflective and informational book filled with life stories and examples of race, racism, prejudice, and injustice. It is a heart-warming account of her life to give you an understanding...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Schooling of a 21st Century Principal" traces the author's journey to the principalship, a career goal nowhere to be found on his bucket list. He took the reins knowing his middle school faced some daunting tasks, however, he would soon discover that it was the extraordinary events, changes, and challenges of a new millennium that would present the greatest arc of learning on the job.
Michael Cahill led his building using a collaborative team...
Author
Language
English
Description
My name is Bertha Gallegos Allen.
You will read how my husband and I took care of my mother and her husband's mother while we worked at the preschool. In the book, you will read parts that are sad, and you will also cry. You will laugh at what a child says and does. Some children are happy, some sad. Childcare is good for children because they are safe and they are loved. Some children are better at childcare than at home.
I was thinking about writing...
Author
Language
English
Description
Psychologically astute and passionately written, Molly Worthen's remarkable debut charts the intricate relationship between student and teacher, biographer and subject. As a Yale freshman, Worthen found herself deeply fascinated by worldly-wise professor Charles Hill, a former diplomat who had shaped American foreign policy in his forty-year career as an adviser to Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali, among others. Hill was never...
Author
Language
English
Description
This story discusses a few key events that occurred during my lifetime and the perspectives that I was able to gain from each of them. For as long as I could remember my life has been unpredictable. It's been like one roller coaster ride with every twist and turn enlightening me to the harsh and pleasant realities of life. I am often asked how I ended up where I am and how I came to be in Taiwan. I get asked about how I landed my career and how I've...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Este segundo volumen recorre la historia de la teoría de la comunicación a partir de los aportes teóricos de América Latina en este campo.
Los autores analizan las influencias de los paradigmas estadounidense y europeo sobre la región, y observan cómo el subcontinente intenta readaptar o suprimir estos aportes, en especial en un periodo como el de la segunda mitad del siglo XX en el que la lucha emocional e identitaria por lo propio comienza...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request