Among Schoolchildren
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Tracy Kidder — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of a New Machineand the extraordinary national bestseller House— spent nine months in Mrs. Zajac's fifth-grade classroom in the depressed "Flats" of Holyoke, Massachusetts. For an entire year he lived among twenty schoolchildren and their indomitable, compassionate teacher — sharings their joys, their catastrophes, and their small but essential triumphs. As a result, he has written a revealing, remarkably poignant account of education in America . . . and his most memorable, emotionally charged, and important book to date.
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Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade Shares education, nonfiction, teaching -
Class Dismissed: A Year in the Life of an American High School, A Glimpse into the Heart of a Nation Shares education, nonfiction, teaching -
School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School Shares education, nonfiction, teaching -
And Still We Rise:: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students Shares nonfiction, education, teaching
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Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course
