high school teachers

New Jersey high school teacher Mr. McAllister faces a personal and professional crisis when he decides to fix the student body election, while at the same time dealing with an unexpected attraction to his wife's best friend.

New York's Calvin Coolidge High begins the new school year. With no chalk. No books. Too many students. Over clanging bells, the P.A. booms "Please disregard all bells." It might as well say "Please disregard all learning."--back cover.

"... Abigail Cress is ticking off the boxes toward the the Ivy League when she makes the first impulsive decision of her life: entering into an inappropriate relationship with a teacher. Dave Chu, who knows himself at heart to be a typical B tudent, takes desperate measures to live up to his parents' crushing expectations. Emma Fleed, a gifted dancer, balances rigorous rehearsals with wild weekends. Damon Flintov returns from a stint at rehab looking to prove that he's not an irredeemable screwup. And Calista Broderick, once part of the popular rowd, chooses, for reasons of her own, to become a hippie outcast. Into this complicated web, an idealistic young English teacher arrives from a poorer, scruffier part of California. Molly Nicoll strives to connect with her her students-without understanding the middle school tragedy that played out online and has continued to reverberate in different ways for all of them ..."--Jacket flap.

Isabelle Goodrow, horrified and enraged when she discovers her teenage daughter Amy is involved with a math teacher at the high school, comes to realize that her outrage is mostly the result of the secret she has been keeping for most of Amy's life.

When high-school senior Kai Tamura sneaks into Ms. Opal's classroom to steal the upcoming trigonometry exam, he sees her changing answers on her students' standardized tests, and he takes photos to prove it--then when no one believes him and he is suspended, Kai sets out to prove the truth, even though it means ruining a popular teacher whom he likes.

"[Relates the story of Ed Boland who,] in a fit of idealism, ... left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly collided headlong with the appalling reality of his students' lives and a hobbled education system unable to help them."--Provided by publisher.

Eight stories trace the lives of two young people who have managed to find love despite the profound losses they have suffered.

The author, who returned to teaching at a rural Vermont public school after fourteen years as a full-time writer, describes the American education system today. He takes readers into the daily life of a teacher, sharing challenges, frustrations, and triumphs; and highlighting the many political, administrative, economic, social, and technological obstacles teachers face every day.

Young married couple Saul and Patsy settle down in a small Michigan town where Saul embarks on a career as a teacher of remedial students, but their lives are thrown off course when one of those students inexplicably kills himself in their yard.