Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids
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Blue Rider Press"
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Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids
Author:
Nicholson Baker
Language:
English
Format:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
09/06/2016 00:00
ISBN:
0399160981
Pages:
736
Reading Level:
Adult
SKU:
9780399160981
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In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He awoke to the dispatcher’s five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to one of several nearby schools; when he got there, he did his best to follow lesson plans and help his students get something done. What emerges from Baker’s experience is a complex, often touching deconstruction of public schooling in America: children swamped with overdue assignments, over­whelmed by the marvels and distractions of social media and educational technology, and staff who weary themselves trying to teach in step with an often outmoded or overly ambitious standard curriculum. In Baker’s hands, the inner life of the classroom is examined anew—mundane work­sheets, recess time-outs, surprise nosebleeds, rebellions, griefs, jealousies, minor triumphs, kindergarten show-and-tell, daily lessons on everything from geology to metal tech to the Holocaust—as he and his pupils struggle to find ways to get through the day. Baker is one of the most inventive and remarkable writers of our time, and Substitute, filled with humor, honesty, and empathy, may be his most impressive work of nonfiction yet.
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The book, Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN# 9780399160981 in Hardcover by Nicholson Baker may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.