I won this in a Goodreads giveaway, with no prior introduction to the work of Tracy Kidder. Maybe that is the wrong order in which to read a reflective work, which is what this seemed to be. I was initially hoping for more of reference-type, self-help book--more the modern "Elements of Style" tha...
I bought a torn used copy of this book in some forgotten book store years ago. I liked the burp. Finally in feb this year I dived in. What a treat!This old book won the 1982 National Book Award for Non-fiction and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. And it fully deserved those prizes.The la...
Last night I happened to read an article by a Mom who visited two high schools with her daughter. The student guide at both, as it happened, told how hilarious senior night was, when the seniors dressed as old people, tottering on canes, bent, with quavering voices, white socks, trousers pulled u...
I read this book for a college course in education, and the following is an essay I wrote to review it:Tracy Kidder’s 1989 book, Among Schoolchildren, is a year-long case study in which Kidder describes day-to-day experiences in Mrs. Zajac’s 5th grade classroom. Kidder divides the book into nine ...
Chris hadn't requested the core. She didn't have to get involved. But she feared that if she didn't, the usual pat plans would be put in place, and Clarence would end up going to the already ridiculously overcrowded Resource Room for an hour a day. That would do no good. She'd keep Clarence with ...
We talked about the article I was trying to write. The conversation went like this: What was wrong with the article? I asked. Well, first of all, he said, and he paused, as if perhaps he was sorry to have to say this. Well, first of all, the first sentence. I had wanted a spectacular opening. My ...
But there may also be a kind of talent that gets suppressed by time, a talent diffused within the human gene pool, which lies dormant awaiting its technological moment. One of the fathers of computer science, Donald E. Knuth, speculates that this was the case with computer programming. In a serie...