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Luvvie Ajayi (born Ifeoluwa Ajayi on January 5, 1985 [1]), also known as Luvvie Ajayi Jones, is a Nigerian–American author, speaker, and digital strategist. [2] Her book, I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual , was a New York Times best-seller .
Ron Jones (born 1941) is an American writer and formerly a teacher in Palo Alto, California. He is best known for his classroom exercise called " The Third Wave " and the book he wrote about the event, which inspired the made-for-TV movie The Wave and other works, including a theatrical film in 2008.
In 2006, while working on a PhD thesis, Julia Jones decided to become a writer of adventure stories like the Swallows and Amazons series of Arthur Ransome she had read as a child. [10] [11] The Salt-Stained Book, the first part of a planned trilogy, was released in June 2011. [12]
(1970). Both books focused on his belief that schools weren't working and ideas about how they could be better. Holt had determined by this time that the changes he would like to see happen in the school systems were not likely to become a reality. These changes included the relationship between children and the teachers and school community. [5]
Brian P. Jones is an American educator, scholar, activist, and actor. He is the inaugural director [ 1 ] of the Center for Educators and Schools of The New York Public Library , and formerly the associate director of Education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture , [ 2 ] where he was also a scholar in residence. [ 3 ]
By the 50th anniversary in 1988 some 40 million copies of the Teach Yourself series had been sold, with the books generating a turnover of over £1 million. [8] The author, Nigel Cumberland, of a Teach Yourself book entitled Secrets of Success at Work. Like many similar series, Teach Yourself has always used a common design for all of its books ...
Whether Ted was giving a motivating locker room speech, or AFC Richmond won a game, or I just generally adored the girl power of Keeley (Juno Temple) and Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham), and the ...
She meets her teacher, Ms. Blu Rain, and fellow students Rhonda, Jermaine, Rita, Jo Ann, and Consuelo. All of the girls come from troubled backgrounds. Ms. Rain's class is a pre-GED class for young women who are below an eighth-grade level in reading and writing and therefore are unprepared for high school-level courses. They start off by ...