Category Archives: Non-fiction
COHS teacher discussion: “The Global Achievement Gap”
This is a guest entry by COHS teacher Nathalie Bellitti The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need— and What We Can Do About It (2008) by Tony Wagner CHAPTER … Continue reading
COHS teacher discussion: “The Global Achievement Gap” Chapter 4
The Global Achievement Gap by Tony Wagner, Chapter 4 Reinventing the Education Profession The Trouble with Educators Teacher Preparation: Teacher preparation programs are terrible because the required classes are irrelevant to teaching, and students don’t get useful feedback on their … Continue reading
Adult Books for Teens: Common Core: “Creation”
Creation: How Science is Reinventing Life Itself by Adam Rutherford Here’s a book title that I was surprised to find is not hyperbole. Science really is creating new life forms. Rutherford doesn’t mean cloning life forms we know. He … Continue reading
Adult Books for Teens: Biography: “Full of Heart”
Full of Heart by J. R. Martinez with Alexandra Rockey Fleming You may know J. R. Martinez due to his fairly recent celebrity. In 2003, he was a nineteen-year-old soldier in Iraq. Only in the country for a month, and … Continue reading
Adult Books for Teens: Biography: “Breaking Night”
Breaking Night by Liz Murray Being the child of drug addicts makes for a life both frightening and weird. There’s no stability, the strangers in house can be anyone, including child sexual predators. And the parents themselves are pretty … Continue reading
Adult Books for Teens: Biography: “The Los Angeles Diaries”
The Los Angeles Diaries: A Memoir by James Brown James Brown begins with that phenomenon of nature that all of us here in the Inland Empire know: the Santa Ana winds. We’ve seen the uprooted trees and downed powerlines … Continue reading
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