Kathleen Cushman, Author, Michael Carroll, Illustrator Joy Street Books $15.95 (90p) ISBN 978-0-316-16561-7
Readers will almost be able to smell the sawdust as they follow the experiences of a trapeze artist during her first year of professional training. As the first American student to attend the National Center of Circus Arts of Chalons-sur-Marne,...
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Kathleen Cushman, Author, Laura Rogers, Author . New Press $24.95 (219p) ISBN 978-1-59558-111-2
Cushman, whose well-received Fires in the Bathroom
covered high school students, teamed up with psychologist and Tufts professor Rogers to explore how to teach middle school students more effectively. What’s a teacher to do when “sheR
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Kathleen Cushman, Author, Lisa D. Delpit, Introduction by New Press $24.95 (204p) ISBN 978-1-56584-802-3
Teenagers dictating to teachers sounds dubious, but educators will want to take note of the message from this volume: students do want to learn. Cushman, an education journalist working in conjunction with the nonprofit organization What Kids Can Do,
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Kathleen Cushman, Kristien Zenkov, and Meagan Call-Cummings. New Press, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-62097-543-5
Cushman (Fires in the Bathroom), cofounder of the nonprofit What Kids Can Do, and educators Zenkov and Call-Cummings examine how today’s “social, political, economic, and climatic crises” are stressing students in this well-intentioned yet familiar...
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