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Going to School with a Thousand Kids

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Author: Baker, Nicholson
ISBN:978-0-399-16098-1
Publication Date:Sep 2016
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint:Penguin Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $30.00
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:736
Detailed Subjects: Education / Teaching / General
Biography & Autobiography / Educators
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Education / Schools / Types / Public
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.24 x 9.087 x 1.443 Inches
Book Weight:2.2 Pounds
Author Biography
Baker, Nicholson (Author)
Nicholson Baker lives in Maine.




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