Blackboard: A Personal History of the Classroom
- ISBN-10
- 155597094X
- ISBN-13
- 9781555970949
- Series
- Blackboard
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-08-05
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Author
- Lewis Buzbee
Description
A captivating meditation on education from the author of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop In Blackboard, Lewis Buzbee looks back over a lifetime of experiences in schools and classrooms, from kindergarten to college and beyond. He offers fascinating histories of the key ideas informing educational practice over the centuries, which have shaped everything from class size to the layout of desks and chairs. Buzbee deftly weaves his own biography into this overview, approaching his subject as a student, a father, and a teacher. In so doing, he offers a moving personal testament to how he, "an average student" in danger of flunking out of high school, became the first in his family to graduate from college. He credits his success to the well-funded California public school system and bemoans the terrible price that state is paying as a result of funding being cut from today's budgets. For Buzbee, the blackboard is a precious window into the wider world, which we ignore at our peril. "Both anecdotal and eloquent, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop is a tribute to those who crave the cozy confines of a bookshop, a place to be ‘alone among others' and savor a bountiful literary buffet." —Booklist (starred review)
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Other editions
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- 2011-11-06
- - pages
- Paperback
- Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
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