The Branford Bulls take on their teachers in a special basketball game to raise money for a new middle school gym, but the game turns ugly when one of the teachers becomes too intent on winning.
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
Explains how new teachers expected to enter America's classrooms in the fist decade of the twenty-first century will have to develop a new model for teaching diverse groups of students.
Examines the successful teaching strategies of educator and principal Marva Collins and offers advice on how to motivate children to reach their full potential.