epub |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:George Saunders [Saunders, George]

Because kindness, it turns out, is hard—it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs and expands to include … well, everything. One thing in our favor: Some of this “becoming ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-04-23 | Author:Gruwell, Erin & The Freedom Writers [Gruwell, Erin]

Diary 68 Dear Diary, This is my first year to have Ms. Gruwell as my English teacher. I am one of the transfers, or the “lucky ones,” on “Gruwell’s List.” ...

mobi |eng | 2009-03-30 | Author:Wallace, David Foster [Wallace, David Foster]

You have to wander all over the huge, overlit store’s crowded aisles to find the stuff you want, and you have to maneuver your junky cart through all these other ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-30 | Author:Robert McDermott

6. REINCARNATION, KARMA, AND THE DEAD DESTINY AND REINCARNATION OF THE SPIRIT THE SOUL LIVES AND acts in the middle, between body and spirit. Impressions reaching the soul through the ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]

THE SAVOYARD VICAR’S PROFESSION OF FAITH My child, do not expect from me learned speech or profound reasoning. I am not a great philosopher, nor do I desire to be ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Neil Postman [Postman, Neil]

Etiquette This and the next piece need little advance comment, except to say that the second one is written in the only form (so it seems to me) in which ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1993-03-15 | Author:Howard Gardner

The Development of Bodily Intelligence in the Individual The prehistoric origins of bodily intelligence, and its relation to language and other cognitive functions, may forever be wrapped in uncertainty; but ...

mobi, epub | | 2010-09-10 | Author:Participant Media

8 Five Foundations for Student Success Randi Weingarten Randi Weingarten is the president of the 1.5 million-member American Federation of Teachers and the former president of New York City’s United ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Diane Ravitch

WHAT IS THE SECRET of successful charter schools, those that consistently record high standardized test scores? The higher scores may be the product of longer hours and weeks, dedicated teachers, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-28 | Author:Michelle Rhee

7 Students First The day after the screening of Waiting for “Superman,” KMJ and I flew to Hawaii. We had planned the trip months before. It was originally supposed to ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti [Krishnamurti, Jiddu]

3. On Action KRISHNAMURTI: Shall we consider the question of immediacy of action? Action is pressing on each one of us, and there must be the long vision which includes ...