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|  | Making the Grade by Tony Wagner
Wagner, co-director of a leadership group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a senior advisor on education to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, offers his opinions on how to improve and reinvent the American educational system. Wagner attests that the American educational system must be totally redirected--away from the curriculum first established during the industrial revolution and towards a curriculum more in line with the modern information age. Furthermore, Wagner outlines how communities, government, teachers, parents, and students can work together to reform and reinvent the American school system. AUTHOR: Tony Wagner
PUBLISHER: Routledge
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | Seeing Language in Sign by Jane Maher, Oliver Sacks
In 1995 William C. Stokoe arrived at Gallaudet College (later Gallaudet University) to teach English, specifically Chaucer. His own education in Old and Middle English, however, triggered a disparate response within him when he was first exposed to deaf people signing. While most of his colleagues conformed to current conventional theory and dismissed signing as mere mimicry of speech, Stokoe saw in it elements of a distinctive language all its own. Seeing Language in Sign traces the process that Stokoe followed to prove scientifically and unequivocally that American Sign Language (ASL) met the full criteria of linguistics - phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and use of language - to be classified a fully developed language. This perceptive account dramatically captures the struggle Stokoe faced in persuading the establishment of the truth of his discovery. Other faculty members ridiculed or reviled him, and many deaf members of the Gallaudet community laughed at his efforts. Seeing Language in Sign rewards the reader with a rich portrayal of an undaunted advocate who, like a latter-day Galileo, pursued his vision of doggedly regardless of relentless antagonism. He established the Linguistics Research Laboratory, then founded the journal Sign Language Studies to sustain an unpopular dialogue until the tide changed. His ultimate vindication corresponded with the recognition of the glorious culture and community that revolves around Deaf people and their language, American Sign Language. AUTHOR: Jane Maher, Oliver Sacks
PUBLISHER: Gallaudet University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Promised Land by Nicholas Lemann
A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels. AUTHOR: Nicholas Lemann
PUBLISHER: McKay, David Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Among the Hidden by Cliff Nielsen
Description not available.Due to government restrictions on family size, Luke is born an illegal third child who must hide from sight for his own safety, yet when he secretly encounters another shadow child on the connecting farm, Luke is willing to take big risks to develop the friendship. Reprint. AUTHOR: Cliff Nielsen
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Ruminations on College Life by Aaron Karo
Description not available.A collection of essays and articles from the Ruminations on College Life column sheds whimsical light on the world of higher education, from dorm room escapades and classroom antics to cheap beer, dating, and other joys of college life. Original. 25,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Aaron Karo
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Story of Jumping Mouse by John Steptoe
A compassionate, courageous mouse travels to a far-off land and becomes a magnificent soaring eagle in this retelling of a Native American legend. AUTHOR: John Steptoe
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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