Overview :When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess in order to... Read More
Overview :C. S. Lewis's illuminating reflections on Milton's Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well a... Read More
Overview :This is the book for readers of Jonathan Kozol's previous works on education, including The Shame of the Nation and On Being a Teacher; for ... Read More
Overview :Ian Crofton, former editor-in-chief of The Guinness Encyclopedia, has written a wide range of other general reference books, including Philo... Read More
Overview : Janet Angelillo introduces us to an entirely new way of thinking about writing about reading. She shows us how to teach students to manage ... Read More
Overview :Why teach? Who are today's students? What makes a good teacher? Educational Foundations: An Anthology of Critical Readings aims to answer su... Read More
Overview :Escape Essay Hell is a fast-and-easy guide to writing narrative-style essays for college application essays. Janine Robinson, a former jour... Read More
Overview :The Alphabet of the Trees is a superb collection of essays about teaching all aspects and forms of nature writing, including poems, field jo... Read More
Overview :Before a Canyon is Jeremy Tucker's collection of stories and essays on what it's like to work with at-risk children, to teach in an underpri... Read More
Overview :Public education's character is increasingly under assault as privatization of education is advanced. This collection of essays by noted sch... Read More
Overview :This book explains how to write an essay in five easy steps. This simple essay writing guide can be used by high school, college, or univers... Read More
Overview :These 50 college application essays were written by real students who all got into terrific, competitive schools. They used a narrative (sto... Read More
Overview :"You can do this," Glancy tells us. "I'll show you how." Face-to-face with a blank page and the pressure of writing the most important essay... Read More
Overview :This book showcases the best college admissions essays of the year -- essays that got students into all the top schools in the country. Read... Read More
Overview :In this innovative new series Education Write Now, ten of education's most inspiring thought-leaders meet for a three-day retreat to think a... Read More
Overview :Everyone remembers that teacher who made a difference. The one who went the extra mile to truly affect lives, whose lessons carried as much ... Read More
Overview :In 1982 acclaimed Washington Post columnist Colman McCarthy was invited to teach a course on writing at an impoverished public school in Was... Read More