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You Only Guide Me by Surprise: Poetry and the Dolphin's Turn

Product Description: The Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lectures on the Teaching of Poetry was established in 2003 in memory of a poet and an inspired teacher of poetry to children and to the underprivileged. She is also remembered for her generosity in support of actions, world wide, to safeguard and to further Human Rights...read more

By Peter Sacks

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9781893663213, titled ""You Only Guide Me by Surprise": Poetry and the Dolphin's Turn" | Bklt edition (Univ of California Pr, April 1, 2010), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lectures on the Teaching of Poetry was established in 2003 in memory of a poet and an inspired teacher of poetry to children and to the underprivileged.

Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education

A compelling critique of the American educational system explains how the growing inequities between rich and poor is exacerbated by offering the advantaged ample opportunites while shutting out the poor, arguing that we need to take a hard look at the implications of equal opportunity in America today.

By Peter Sacks

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9780520245884 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, May 14, 2007), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: A compelling critique of the American educational system explains how the growing inequities between rich and poor is exacerbated by offering the advantaged ample opportunites while shutting out the poor, arguing that we need to take a hard look at the implications of equal opportunity in America today.

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9780520261693 | Univ of California Pr, September 22, 2009, cover price $29.95

Necessity

A collection of poems by Peter Sacks that use his personal journey from a strife-torn South Africa to a haunted and spiritually frayed America. He reveals images of travels from the debris of our mad dreams of progress, conquest and salvation, to the waters of communal memory, values and love.

By Peter Sacks

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9780393050592 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems by Peter Sacks that use his personal journey from a strife-torn South Africa to a haunted and spiritually frayed America.

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9780393325041 | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 2003, cover price $15.95

By Vineyard Light

Product Description: This beautiful collection of poems and photographs of the landscape of Martha's Vineyard is a serene and noble tribute to this lovely island. This book portrays the island's character more than any other volume on the subject, through the combination of Rose Styron's evocative lines and Craig Dripps's stunning images...read more

By Craig Dripps (photographer), George Plimpton (introduced by), Peter Sacks (introduced by) and Rose Styron

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9780847824915 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, June 1, 2002, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: This beautiful collection of poems and photographs of the landscape of Martha's Vineyard is a serene and noble tribute to this lovely island.

O Wheel: Poems

Product Description: This collection of poems by Peter Sacks uses an edgy mix of the intense violence of South Africa's history, the personal struggles of the human soul to speak freely and experience justice, and the expanse of the American literary landscape as a backdrop. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Peter Sacks

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9780820321844 | Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This collection of poems by Peter Sacks uses an edgy mix of the intense violence of South Africa's history, the personal struggles of the human soul to speak freely and experience justice, and the expanse of the American literary landscape as a backdrop.

Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change It

Argues that America's obsession with standardized testing affects everyone throughout their life and provides alternatives and solutions to this problem. (view table of contents)

By Peter Sacks

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9780738202433 | Perseus Books, January 1, 2000, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Argues that America's obsession with standardized testing affects everyone throughout their life and provides alternatives and solutions to this problem.

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9780738204338 | Da Capo Pr, January 10, 2001, cover price $18.50

Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America

Product Description: This is an incredible, amusing, horrifying, yet true story, in which all names have been changed to protect the guilty.It tells how the author, a journalist turned college professor, came face to face with Generation X: jaded, unachieving, highly demanding yet lacking any respect for standards or intelligence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Peter Sacks

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9780812693140 | Open Court Pub Co, May 1, 1996, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This is an incredible, amusing, horrifying, yet true story, in which all names have been changed to protect the guilty.

Promised Lands

By Peter Sacks

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9780140586657 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 1991), cover price $11.00

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