{"product_id":"substitute-going-to-school-with-a-thousand-kids-paperback","title":"Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicholson Baker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller**\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"May be the most revealing depiction of the American contemporary classroom that we have to date.\" \u003cb\u003e--Garret Keizer, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBestselling author Nicholson Baker, in pursuit of the realities of American public education, signed up as a substitute teacher in a Maine public school district.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, over­whelmed 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In Baker's hands, the inner life of the classroom is examined anew--mundane work­sheets, 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 \u003ci\u003eSubstitute\u003c\/i\u003e, filled with humor, honesty, and empathy, may be his most impressive work of nonfiction yet.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholson Baker\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten novels and five works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Anthologist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Mezzanine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHuman Smoke\u003c\/i\u003e. He has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Hermann Hesse Prize, and a Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Maine with his wife, Margaret Brentano; both his children went to Maine public schools.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 736\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763211665696,"sku":"9780399160998","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7e9556a0d4e0d07c57da95bac8ba6ebf.webp?v=1780229906","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/substitute-going-to-school-with-a-thousand-kids-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}