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Simple text and photographs introduce the life of Booker T. Washington.

Presents a beginner's biography of African-American educator and social reformer Booker T. Washington.

"[This book] is a . . . resource for cultivating resilience in educators that is based on the author's research in emotional resilience, psychology, systems thinking, and change management and on ten years of testing in schools and offices. [This book] outlines a conceptual framework with four parts: who we are, where we are, what we do, and how we are. The book identifies 12 habits and dispositions that can be cultivated in order to build resilience"--Back cover.

Profiles the life of educator, government adviser, and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune.

Discusses the impact Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Shanker, William Bennett, and James Coleman had on the public schools of the United States, describing their roles as mission-driven reformers, and examining how public education will change in the twenty-first century.

Nadia Lopez shares the inspiring vision for Mott Hall Bridges Academy, the middle school she founded against the odds in Brownsville, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

"[A picture book that relates the story of] Lilly Ann Granderson, an enslaved teacher who strongly believed in the power of education and risked her life to teach others during slavery. Includes afterword and sources"--Provided by publisher.

Chronicles the life ofAfrican American Booker T. Washingt on, who became an inpirational teacher, speaker and author.

A tenth-anniversary edition of John Gatto's essays and speeches in which the New York City teacher explains why he believes public schools are failures, and discusses what children need to get a valuable education. Includes a new foreword, introduction, and afterword.

African American educator, author, speaker, and advisor to presidents of the United States, Booker Taliaferro Washington was the leading voice of former slaves and their descendants during the late 1800s. As part of the last generation of leaders born into slavery, Booker believed that blacks could better progress in society through education and entrepreneurship, rather than trying to directly challenge the Jim Crow segregation.