About this title: Everyone talks about our schools. Newspaper editorials worry about slipping educational standards. Business complains about poor training for the work force. Television programs talk about violence in school halls. Educational reports study problems and issue strategic documents. Parents attend parent-teacher interviews twice a year. Yet nobody - except for the teachers and the kids - seems to know what really goes on there. Ken Dryden decided to find out. From September 1993 until June 1994, he attended a high school, folding his 6'4" frame as inconspicuously as possible into a seat at ...
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780771028687ISBN:0771028687
Description: First Edition: First Printing: Illustrated Wraps, SoftCover! 8vo., 282 pages. This book is unmarked and very good. No dust jacket as issued! A very attractive copy of this title! ISBN: 0771028687. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart., Toronto
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780771028687ISBN:0771028687
Description: Very Good + 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. (cad) No markings, Very Good + 8vo, illus wraps, 282pp. A book written after Dryden spent a year observing the classrooms in a public high-school. (1.5 JM FO 55/5. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780771028687ISBN:0771028687
Description: Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. (CAD) No markings, Near fine in unclipped VG+ Dj. Bds, 282pp. This book was written after Dryden spent a year observing the classrooms in a public high-school. The result is a documentary about the life of a typical Canadian high school in the mid 1990s. (1.8 WL FO 32/1. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780771028694ISBN:0771028695
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Light signs of use to jacket. Bottom page ends has very small indentation, otherwise fine inside, clean and unmarked and tightly bound. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 296 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Binding is tight, there is very light shelf rubbing to the corners and spine ends; the top of the spine is just a little rough; pg. 41 is dog-eared at the top right corner for a length of 4-1/2". Quite clean inside and out. 282 pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780771028687ISBN:0771028687
Description: Fine in trade softcover. 23 cm. 282 [1] pages. Review copy provided by publisher (stamp on title page). A famous figure in the world of hockey, the Ken Dryden is also the author of 'The Game'. 'A masterful book that should be read by anyone making policy, pronouncements, or judgements about what is wrong with the education system'. Bright, clean. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, Ontario
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780771028694ISBN:0771028695
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Dark blue boards with gold lettering on spine. Shelf wear and rubbing. 282 pages. From book "Ken Dryden spends a year in the classrooms of a public high-school, sitting and watching. The result is a superb book that will set you thinking-and arguing-about our schools.". read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, Ontario
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780771028687ISBN:0771028687
Description: Very Good. Shelf wear and rubbing. Crease near bottom corner of covers and pages. Small bump at top of spine. 282 pages. From book "Ken Dryden spent a year in the classrooms of a public high-school, sitting and watching. This superb, observant, thoughtful, and compassionate book is the result.....". read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Limited
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780771028687ISBN:0771028687
Description: Very Good. Text in English (282 pages). Very good condition, tight binding, unmarked pages. Teachers do well teaching kids like them who want to learn-and not so well with the average kids, the ones beyond the front row. In this intimate look at the way a school really works, Ken Dryden tackles what he sees as the education debate's retreat to a safe, unthinking-and ultimately useless-black and white ground of issues and policies at the expense of people. Ultimately he discovers that good ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780771028694ISBN:0771028695
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. Fine in Near Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Inscribed By Author pp.282 Ken Dryden decides to find out what goes on in our schools. He attended from Sept.1993 to June 1994 a high school and watched taking notes. clean tight copy slight edgewear. read more
Description: Good. Minimal damage to cover and binding. Pages show light use. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
Description: Good. Minimal damage to cover and binding. Pages show light use. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
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