Got to Larry’s shop and found four things: <\/p>\n
A Ted Sizer hardback in great shape that I hadn’t seen before. He was the school leader of my high school until the year I arrived. I wish I’d met him. Horace’s Compromise remains one of the better books about what it means to be a teacher. I’m interested in this memoir. <\/p>\n
(Theodore R. Sizer, The Red Pencil: Convictions from Experience in Education (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005).<\/p>\n
Tom Sugrue’s latest book. I didn’t get it when it first came out and was thrilled to see a hardback in great shape. <\/p>\n
(Thomas J. Sugrue, Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010).<\/p>\n
A book that I must have read a review about because as soon as I saw it, I knew I wanted it. <\/p>\n
Frederic Raphael, A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus (Pantheon, 2013).<\/p>\n
And lastly, a book on a mathematician because I’m always looking for books for my math and science teachers. Will post citation later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Got to Larry’s shop and found four things: A Ted Sizer hardback in great shape that I hadn’t seen before. He was the school leader of my high school until the year I arrived. I wish I’d met him. Horace’s Compromise remains one of the better books about what it means to be a teacher. … Continue reading today’s books<\/span>