Paper Clips, produced by the Johnson Group in association with Ergo Entertainment (2-disc Special Edition, $24.99; Educational Edition, $79.99) Given the current worldwide political climate, teachers more than ever feel the need to teach tolerance, compassion, and understanding. While there is an abundance of curriculum available for teachers on these topics, educators want to make sure their students “experience” these
And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students by Miles Corwin (Harper Perennial, 432 pages, $14.00) Miles Corwin was moved to write And Still We Rise when he heard about a 15 year old boy splayed out on a South-Central Los Angeles street corner with several gunshot wounds. The boy had no identification other than
Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton by Sarah Sentilles (Beacon Press, 224 pages, $23.95) BUY NOW! reviewed by Eva A. Frank Sarah Sentilles recalls the first Teach for America poster she ever saw, an African American man standing in front of a chalk board facing excited students of color. No explanation. No phone number. Sentilles
By Mark Edmundson(Vintage, 288 pp., $13.00) BUY NOW! Reviewed by Eva A. Frank Perhaps I have seen Stand and Deliver and Dead Poets Society too many times. Until Mark Edmundson’s Teacher, I think I believed a teacher’s story only worthy if the outcome is monumental student transformation. Disenfranchised students receiving 5s on the Advanced Placement Statistics test, high school students