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Substitute - Going to School with a Thousand Kids (Paperback)
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Substitute - Going to School with a Thousand Kids (Paperback)
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**A New York Times Bestseller** "May be the most revealing
depiction of the American contemporary classroom that we have to
date." -Garret Keizer, The New York Times Book Review Bestselling
author Nicholson Baker, in pursuit of the realities of American
public education, signed up as a substitute teacher in a Maine
public school district. In 2014, after a brief orientation course
and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an
on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He
awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to
one of several nearby schools; when he got there, he did his best
to follow lesson plans and help his students get something done.
What emerges from Baker's experience is a complex, often touching
deconstruction of public schooling in America: children swamped
with overdue assignments, over whelmed by the marvels and
distractions of social media and educational technology, and staff
who weary themselves trying to teach in step with an often outmoded
or overly ambitious standard curriculum. In Baker's hands, the
inner life of the classroom is examined anew-mundane work sheets,
recess time-outs, surprise nosebleeds, rebellions, griefs,
jealousies, minor triumphs, kindergarten show-and-tell, daily
lessons on everything from geology to metal tech to the
Holocaust-as he and his pupils struggle to find ways to get through
the day. Baker is one of the most inventive and remarkable writers
of our time, and Substitute, filled with humor, honesty, and
empathy, may be his most impressive work of nonfiction yet.
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