Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience

Fidler, Richard

Summary: How do today’s kids compare with those a hundred years ago on tests designed to measure how much they have learned? How did teachers in one-room schools manage a classroom with eight grades and eleven subjects? What was it like to be a high school student in 1924? What was a high school teacher’s day like a hundred years ago? How did the mission and character of schools change over the course...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 FID
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.464 FID

Fidler, Richard

Summary: The story of how the purposes of education, curriculum and instruction, and teachers and students changed over the course of a century and a half in a Northern Michigan Community

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Richard Fidler

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Local Author, Call number: 977.464 FID
1 available in Reference, Call number: R NEL 977.464 FID

Summary: A history of our Owosso schools, 1837-2003.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shiawassee County Historical Society 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 977.425 ECH

Keithan, Mary

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2008

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 372.12 Kei

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 370 KEI

Rocheleau, Paul.

Summary: The one-room schoolhouse pays homage to this Amerian icon. Once 200,000 dotted the countryside, today only about 450 are still in use.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Universe 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.125 ROC

Churchill, Ward.

Summary: Ward (American Indian studies, U. of Colorado, Boulder) traces the history of removing Native American children from their homes to residential schools as part of government policies, 1880s-1980s, which he views as genocidal. He includes photos of victims of "residential school syndrome," and a list of these schools in the US and Canada.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.829 CHU

Summary: Each section features a lavish double-page image of an influential painting that defines each artistic style. Seminal works of genius are portrayed in their historical context, with attention paid to the culture of the time and the lives of their creators.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2013

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Goldstein, Dana

Summary: A history of 175 years of teaching in America demonstrates that teachers have always borne the brunt of shifting, often impossible expectations. In other nations, public schools are one thread in a quilt that includes free universal childcare, health care, and job training. Here, schools are the whole cloth. Today we look around the world at countries like Finland and South Korea, whose...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 GOL

Summary: Through narration and selections from performed works tells the story of the development of the Interlochen Arts Academy from its beginnings as Joe Maddy's National Music Camp through the present.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Interlochen Center for the Arts 1991

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL JOE

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.973 SCH

Hoose, Phillip M.

Summary: "By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten black teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in Indiana shattered the myth of their inferiority. Their brilliant coach had fashioned an unbeatable team from a group of boys born in the South and raised in poverty. Anchored by the astonishing Oscar Robertson, a future...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 796.323 HOO

Lajimodiere, Denise K.

Summary: Education professor Denise Lajimodiere's interest in American Indian boarding school survivors stories evolved from recording her father and other family members speaking of their experiences. The journey to record survivors stories led her through the Dakotas and Minnesota and into the personal and private space of boarding school survivors. While there, she heard stories that they had never...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North Dakota State University Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.829 LAJ

Jones, Dan C.

Summary: Thousands of Indigenous children were forcibly sent to attend boarding schools specifically created by the government to teach them the ways of white society and punish them for observing their own cultures. Little Moon There Are No Stars Tonight was only four years old when she was removed from her home and sent to Chilocco -- and her grandson, the author, was working there as maintenance...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 371.829 JON

Alcott, Louisa May

Summary: Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALC

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION Alc

O'Neill, Alexis

Summary: Learn how Melvil Dewey's love of organization and words drove him to develop and implement his Dewey Decimal system, leaving a significant and lasting impact in libraries across the country.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC O'NE

Janicki, Peggy

Summary: "This illustrated nonfiction picture book tells the true story of how a group of girls at a residential school sewed secret pockets into their clothes to hide food."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 371.829 JAN

Cadbury, Deborah

Summary: In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England.But the safe haven that Anna struggled to create in a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CAD

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 CAD

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CAD

Ozick, Cynthia

Summary: "From one of our most pre eminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past , and how our experience colors those meanings. Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven surviving trustees of the now defunct (for 34 years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with a description of present events. As he navigates, with faltering...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OZI

Mills, Lauren A.

Summary: In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MIL

Johnson, Dana Kenneth

Summary: Through its history, Montcalm County has had 177 schools. Amazingly, 89 of them are still standing. This book documents those schools in descriptive text and vivid full-color photographs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [Dana Kenneth Johnson] 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.453 JOH

Johnson, Dana Kenneth

Summary: "Ottawa County's 17 townships once contained at least 149 schools, of which over 70 are still standing. This book explores the historic schools of Ottawa County, Michigan, through vintage maps, descriptive text and colorful photos."--Page 4 of cover

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [Dana Kenneth Johnson] 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.415 JOH

Johnson, Dana Kenneth

Summary: Gratiot County, Michigan, has had at least 184 schoolhouses within its borders, but only 39 of those remain standing. This book chronicles those historic schools in photos and text.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [Dana Kenneth Johnson] 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.449 JOH

Johnson, Dana Kenneth

Summary: his book provides a history of the schools of Alger County, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, along with additional historical information on its various towns.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [Dana Kenneth Johnson] 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4932 JOH

Lilac, Jamie

Summary: Beau Bellegarde, a second-born son, makes a deal: if he can turn Evie Clément, the unapproachable baker's daughter, into the winner of the Court Ball, making her the most desired bachelorette in Paris, he inherits the family fortune, but his target has plans of her own.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIL

chat loading...
Back to Top