 | Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
Buy new: $18.72 / Used from: $0.01 McCourt's book is a real gem. It is the story of how a poor Irish immigrant ambled into a career teaching kids in New York City.
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 | Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America (Vintage) by Donna Foote
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.25 A profile of the couragous "newbies" who Teach for America. Very real.
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 | Confessions of a Special Ed Teacher by Susan Cramer
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $19.40 Not as interesting for the general reader as the others, but as a special educator, I found this to be highly interesting. (Those who are unfamiliar with the strange world of "sped" might want to check this one out.)
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 | Losing My Faculties: A Teacher's Story by Brendan Halpin
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $4.64 Doing or dying in the Boston public schools.
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 | Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity: One Season in a Progressive School
Some times, teaching doesn't work out for the best. It is certainy not for everyone.
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 | School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School by Edward Humes
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.01 Oooh! Aaah!! This is one school at which most of us teachers would LOVE to teach!
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 | Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 by Rafe Esquith
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $6.75 Interesting both for teachers and non-teachers. Esquith is a great teacher with unconventional methods.
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 | Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $5.90 Kozol gives advice to young teachers and offers some profiles of young teachers he has met. Interesting (even though I really can't stand Kozol).
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