teacher-student relationships

Ducoboo, the self-proclaimed king of dunces, wages a war of wits with Leonie, a gifted girl who refuses to share her answers with him.

Ducoboo spends his days making his classmates' lives more exciting, until one student, tired of his antics, stands up to Ducoboo with the help of their teacher.

Ducoboo sits in the back of the classroom and is always getting into trouble and has to use his imagination to avoid having to stand in the corner.

The author shares stories of his attempts, as well as those of other teachers, to help children take the lead in inventing their own understanding of how the world works and of how to live ethically, by allying with the children, asking real questions, and sharing responsibility.

Mr. Reaf, an English teacher nearing retirement and hoping to just make it there, learns to teach in a new way--one that values his students--after a fateful encounter with a school janitor.

One hundred twenty-five short bits of advice, arranged in alphabetical order, to help teenagers get along with parents and teachers, under topical headings such as alcohol, anger, chores, grades, guilt, money, nagging, teasing, unfairness, and yelling.

Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.

When Matthew finds out from J.P., the weird girl next door, that their teacher loves to read, he worries that everyone at his new school will know he's a terrible reader.

Manuel, a forty something history professor in Spain, seduces Luc?a, a seventeen-year-old Latin American-born orphan attending a Catholic boarding school in Madrid, as he tells her the story of Juana of Castile, a queen who, after the death of her husband, was imprisoned by his family for allegedly being mentally unstable.