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John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a

What's Worth Learning? addresses the central question of general education.

Chosen as a Globe 100 Best Book of the year in 2011! One of Canada's funniest writers tackles his mother's life and death in a profound, entertaining story.

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn-or worse.

When a prisoner is shot to death in the exercise yard of a Saskatchewan penitentiary, Joanne Kilbourn finds herself haunted by a part of her past she wished had never happened.

Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley.

Anne leaves Green Gables and her work as a teacher in Avonlea to pursue her original dream (which she gave up in Anne of Green Gables) of taking further education at Redmond College in Nova Scotia.

The Big Swim puts forward the idea that personal growth arises from facing both inner tensions and threats to the biosphere.

If you have a pint of fresh Wisconsin ice cream and Cary Grant on The Movie Channel, who needs a man? Not second-grade teacher and MGM-devotee Caitlin Walsh!!

If you are human, you are biased. From this fundamental truth, diversity expert Howard Ross explores the biases we each carry within us.

When twelve-year-old Hannah uncovers an ancient Salish spindle whorl hidden in a cave near her home in Cowichan Bay, she is transported back to a village called Tl'ulpalus, in a time before Eu

Once upon a time, childhood enemies grew up and fell in love ...

Lead in lipstick? 1,4 dioxane in baby soap? Coal tar in shampoo? How is this possible? Simple. The

Fiction. Young Adult. THE OLD BROWN SUITCASE, an award winning book that has sold extraordinarily well both around the globe, now appears in a new edition by Ronsdale Press.

Withersteen is beset by troubles, but throughout much of the novel she struggles with her blindness and inability to fully grasp the nature of her church and its leaders.