An account of an inner-city teacher's first years on the front lines at Parkmont High School presents anecdotes about how the former Marine employed various creative devices to get her students to learn

Product Description: With what do you measure the merit of a man? By his wealth or the diamonds on his finger? By the size of his house or his car? By the number of men who call him "master"? Or do you measure a man by the miles he has traveled, the friends he has collected on the way, and the way he lives his life? If the latter are the tools by which you judge the life of a man the Francis A...read more

Product Description: She bullied, bluffed, and bribed her students into caring about school.And if that didn't work, the pretty, petite ex-marine told them she'd been trained to kill with her bare hands.They were called the class from Hell-thirty-four inner city sophomores she inherited from a teacher who'd been "pushed over the edge...read more

The personal story of an ex-Marine and inner-city high school teacher describes her encounters with the Class from Hell and her efforts to give them the education and self-worth that the system had failed to provide. Reissue. TV tie-in.

Product Description: This is a fascinating, readable account of how to build a truly child-centered classroom, by a teacher who did it successfully. The author uses actual classroom anecdotes to tell the story. In addition to teaching good classroom practice, the book is a real page-turner!

A California high-school teacher describes some of the amazing teenagers, born during the legendary '60s, who have confronted her in the classroom, including exotic, supposedly psychic Rainbow Cloud Kamali and flirtatious but illiterate Juicy Brucie