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An Appalachian girl, Arizona Houston Hughes, grows up to become a teacher who influences generations of schoolchildren.

Reminiscences of teachers from frontier dugout to modern module.

A biography of the woman who taught a deaf-blind girl how to communicate with others.

Biography of the renowned Negro educational leader and organizer of Tuskegee Institute who spent his life trying to improve the lot of his people.

As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, bringing the wonders of literature to a young African-American boy named Patrick and his rowdy classmates. For the first time, these boys began to engage with ideas and dreams beyond their small town, and to gain an insight into themselves that they had never had before. Two years later, Michelle moved back to California;...

A biography of the high school teacher, wife, and mother who was selected by NASA to be the first teacher in space aboard the space shuttle, Challenger.

Presents the life of Booker T. Washington who was born into slavery but eventually went to school and became the president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

The personal story of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments