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1	Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children more books like this by John Wood add to wishlist Wood, the executive who made it his business to bring books and schools to children around the developing world, chronicles his life and work, from the start-up years at Microsoft to his life-changing decision to leave, and includes the methods he uses to manage Room to Read with "the efficiency of General Electric and the compassion of Mother ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Tucker's Apple-Dandy Day more books like this by Susan Winget (Illustrator) add to wishlist Tucker is excited. His class is going on a field trip to Farmer Sam's Apple Orchard! He promises his mum he'll bring home apples, and Tucker's family is looking forward to apple pie for dessert. But Tucker gets distracted by Farmer Sam's shiny red tractor. Then he gets busy helping out his friends....All too soon it's time to go, and Tucker has no ... see all copies from $2.98! new only from $5.99!
3	Learning to Leave: The Irony of Schooling in a Coastal Community more books like this by Michael Corbett add to wishlist The relationship between rural communities and contemporary education is analyzed in this innovative case study of the town of Digby Neck, Nova Scotia. Rather than supporting place-based curriculums and establishing social, economic, and cultural networks within suburban populations, the modern school has typically stood in opposition to local ... see all copies from $19.29! new only from $22.66! \| signed copies \| SVS
4	Call School: Rural Education in the Midwest to 1918 more books like this by Paul Theobald add to wishlist In this well-researched and absorbing account, Paul Theobald chronicles the history of the one-room country schools that were spread throughout the rural Midwest during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the region's educational history in light of the religious, economic, and political atmosphere, Theobald explores the ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
5	Teaching the Commons: Place, Pride, and the Renewal of Local Schooling more books like this by Paul Theobald add to wishlist Reaching all the way back to the classical and medieval past, Teaching the Commons chronicles ideas and resulting policies that have shaped contemporary rural life and living in much of the industrial West. The book examines philosophical assumptions and charts their evolution into conventional wisdom about how human beings should meet their ... see all copies from $11.58! new only from $37.90! \| SVS
6	Martha Berry more books like this by Mary Kay Phelan add to wishlist A biography of the young woman whose desire to help Appalachian children resulted in the creation of boarding schools and a college in rural Georgia where youngsters could work as well as study. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
7	Rural Voices: Place-Conscious Education and the Teaching of Writing more books like this by Robert E Brooke (Editor) add to wishlist Featuring lively essays from rural elementary and secondary teachers, this volume describes the theory and practice of place-conscious education - using one's local place to build real, lasting connections to learning. The teachers describe the development and implementation of rich classroom writing programs that link learners with their rural ... see all copies from $18.34! new only from $19.95! \| SVS
8	Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling more books like this by Deborah Reed-Danahay, Meyer Fortes (Editor), Edmund Leach (Editor) add to wishlist Drawing on an ethnographic study of a remote farming community in the Auvergne, Dr Reed-Danahay challenges conventional views about the operation of the French school system. She demonstrates how parents and children subvert and resist the ideological messages of the teachers, and describes the ways in which a sense of local difference is ... see all copies from $22.58! new only from $22.58! \| SVS
9	Cotton Patch Schoolhouse more books like this by Susie Powers Tompkins add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.57! \| SVS
10	House of Fields: Memories of a Rural Education more books like this by Anne-Marie Oomen add to wishlist Anne-Marie Oomen uses a wealth of vivid language and personal details to bring scenes from her childhood on a family farm to life in "House of Fields". Yet, the focus of this book shifts away from the daily activities of the farm, which Oomen presented in "Pulling Down the Barn", to life outside its boundaries, as she explores the complex meaning ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.39! \| SVS
11	Education in the Rural American Community: A Lifelong Process more books like this by Michael W Galbraith add to wishlist This text examines the methods of education in the rural communities of America. see all copies from $4.78! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Russian Peasant Schools: Officialdom, Village Culture, and Popular Pedagogy, 1861-1914 more books like this by Ben Eklof add to wishlist This pioneering study of primary schools in the Russian countryside during the late tsarist period examines the contribution of education to the transition to modernity. The author links social, institutional,and cultural history, thus providing a multi-dimensional description of the village response to pressures of the modern world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| first editions
13	Letter to a teacher more books like this by Nora Rossi, Tom Cole, Barbiana Scuola add to wishlist see all copies from $8.99! new only from $13.99! \| first editions
14 view cover	Learning from Children What to Teach Them more books like this by Malavika Kapur add to wishlist This enriching book explores quality education at the grassroots level for disadvantaged children. It evolves and evaluates strategies for the promotion of the overall development of children in the motor, cognitive, language, emotional, social and moral domains. The methods used revolve around children, with a larger purpose of shaping young ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $14.29! \| first editions
15 view cover	Curriculum and the American Rural School more books like this by Doug Feldmann, PH.D. add to wishlist Curriculum and the American Rural School traces the origins of American school curriculum, and subsequently contextualizes it within the history of rural school curriculum in the United States since the mid-1800s. Doug Feldmann examines modern issues pertinent to the rural school curriculum in light of this history, and actual solutions to these ... see all copies from $9.19! new only from $43.17! \| SVS
16 view cover	Going to School in Pioneer Times more books like this by Kerry A Graves add to wishlist Discusses the school life of children in pioneer times, including lessons, books, teachers, examinations, and special days. Includes activities and sidebars. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
17 view cover	Basic Education in Rural Pakistan: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Government, Private and Ngo Schools more books like this by Shahrukh Rafi Khan add to wishlist This book aims to suggest ways to make the public sector rural primary schooling more effective. The broader objective is a comparative institutional analysis of government, private and NGO schools. The study identifies processes pushing for improvements in the NGO and private sectors and those resulting in obvious failures in the government ... see all copies from $16.00! new only from $38.03! \| SVS
18 view cover	With Unfailing Dedication: Rural Teachers of the War Years more books like this by Elizabeth McLachlan add to wishlist The severe shortage of teachers brought on by WWII meant that teenagers -- some with little or no training, were placed in charge of country schools. Trained teachers who had retired or left to raise families were pressed back into service, forced to cope with isolation, loneliness, poor living, and poor working conditions. This is a fascinating ... see all copies from $12.89! new only from $27.23! \| first editions
19	Syrup pails and gopher tails ; memories of the one-room school more books like this by John C. Charyk add to wishlist see all copies from $2.57! first editions
20	Challenge and Change in Appalachia: The Story of Hindman Settlement School more books like this by Jess Stoddart add to wishlist The first and most successful rural social settlement school in the United States lies at the forks of Troublesome Creek in Knott County, Kentucky. Since its founding in 1902 by May Stone and Katherine Pettit, Hindman Settlement School has received accolades for the quality of its education, health, and community services that have measurably ... see all copies from $12.89! new only from $22.50! \| first editions
21	Old Country School: The Story of Rural Education in the Middle West more books like this by Wayne E Fuller add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	With Unshakeable Persistence: Rural Teachers of the Depression Era more books like this by Elizabeth McLachlan, Robert Kroetsch (Prologue by) add to wishlist A compilation of individual stories based on the author's interviews and correspondence with several depression era teachers. Comic at times, tragic at others, together these stories tell of a past that is quickly receding from view. see all copies from $6.50! new only from $13.84! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Russian Teachers and Peasant Revolution: The Politics of Education in 1905 more books like this by Scott Joseph Seregny add to wishlist "As the first study in any language of the crucial social 'link' in rural Russia between broader society (obshchestvo) and the people (narod), Seregny's book will be read with great interest by all students or the late imperial period, Soviet and Western." -- William G. Rosenberg "This book is a timely and worthy addition to the... body of work on ... see all copies from $9.48! new only from $30.62! \| first editions
24	Small Town Teacher more books like this by Gertrude H McPherson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25 view cover	Elementary Education in Rural India: A Grassroots' View more books like this by A Vaidyanathan (Editor), P R Gopinathan Nair (Editor) add to wishlist 'This is a well-constructed collection of results and analyses of field surveys. It deserves to be read and considered carefully' - Educational Review This collection of articles by eminent scholars provides an in-depth view of the present educational scenario in rural India. see all copies from $37.85! new only from $44.71!

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