The Rights of the Reader
by Daniel Pennac | 
The Reading Zone
by Nancie Atwell |
A Different Kind of Teacher
by John Taylor Gatto | 
The Art of Teaching Reading
by Lucy McCormick Calkins |
The Art of Teaching Writing
by Lucy McCormick Calkins |
In the Middle
by Nancie Atwell | 
Rachel and Her Children
by Jonathan Kozol | 
Teaching as a Subversive Activity
by Neil Postman | 
Teaching Outside the Box
by LouAnne Johnson |
Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning
by Douglas Wilson |
Mini-Lessons for Literature Circles
by Harvey Daniels | 
The Psychology of Learning Mathematics
by Richard R. Skemp | 
The way it spozed to be
by James Herndon |
Radical Reflections
by Mem Fox |
The Seven Laws of Teaching
by John Milton Gregory |
The Children's Machine
by Seymour Papert |
Death at an Early Age
by Jonathan Kozol | 
Making the Grades
by Todd Farley | 
Illiterate America
by Jonathan Kozol | 
I Before E (Except After C)
by Judy Parkinson |
Daniel Pennac has never forgotten what it was like to be a very unsatisfactory student, nor the day one of his teachers saved his life by assigning him the task of writing a novel. This was the moment Pennac realized that no-one has to be a failure for ever. In School Blues, Pennac explores the many facets of schooling: how fear makes children reject education; how children can be captivated by inventive thinking; how consumerism has altered attitudes to learning. Haunted by memories of his own turbulent time in the classroom, Pennac enacts dialogues with his teachers, his parents and his own students, and serves up much more than a bald analysis of how young people are consistently failed by a faltering system. School Blues is not only universally applicable, but it is unquestionably a work of literature in its own right, driven by subtlety, sensitivity and a passion for pedagogy, while embracing the realities of contemporary culture.