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Literary Sentences

The Marriage Plot (Excerpt)
By Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot (2011)
The History Boys (Excerpt)
By Alan Bennett, History Boys (2006)
State Facts for the New Age
By Amy Sauber Rumpus (September 2, 2016)
What's Better?
By Anton Chekhov, The Paris Review (September 1, 2017)

Poetic Sentences

A Teacher's Lament
By Kalli Dakos, If You Are Not Here, Raise Your Hand (1990)
Theme for English B
By Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (1944)
September, First Day of School
By Howard Nemerov, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1981)
Southern History
By Natasha Tretheway, Native Guard Poems (2006)
To David, About His Education
By Howard Nemerov, War Stories: Poems About Long Ago and Now (1990)
The School Where I Studied
By Yehuda Amichai, translated by Chana Bloch
School
By Daniel J. Langton, New Letters, Vol. 77, nos. 3&4 (2011)
Lecciones de lengua
By Brenda Cárdenas, Boomerang (2009)
For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop
By David Wagoner, Poetry (2002)

Spoken Sentences

Books

The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley
Call Number: Writing Collection LB43 .R625 2013
Publication Date: 2013
A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
Call Number: Writing Collection LC2803.W3 S87 1998
Publication Date: 1998
Whatever It Takes by Paul Tough
Call Number: Writing Collection HC79.P63 T68 2009
Publication Date: 2009
The History Boys by Alan Bennett
Call Number: Writing Collection PR6052.E5 H57 2004x
Publication Date: 2006
Small World by David Lodge
Call Number: Writing Collection PR6062.O36 S64 1995x
Publication Date: 1995
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Call Number: Writing Collection PR6069.M59 O5 2005c
Publication Date: 2006
Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder
Call Number: Hatcher Graduate — 6 South LB 1776 .K481 1989
Shapiro Undergraduate — Basement LB 1776 .K481 1989
Publication Date: 1989
The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan
Call Number: Shapiro Undergraduate Library - Basement LA217.2 .C36 2018
Publication Date: 2019
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai; Christina Lamb (As told to)
Call Number: Shapiro Undergraduate - LC2330 .Y68 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Educated by Tara Westover (Contribution by)
Publication Date: 2018
The Schoolhouse Gate by Justin Driver
Call Number: KF4150 .D75 2018
Publication Date: 2018
The Big Test by Nicholas Lemann (Afterword by)
Call Number: LB 3051 .L441 1999
Publication Date: 2000
Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo
Call Number: Shapiro Undergraduate HV 8833 .K86 2018
Publication Date: 2018
Ghosts in the Schoolyard by Eve L. Ewing
Publication Date: 2020
Chapter 2 in The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
Call Number: PS 3563 .E8134 W66 2013
Publication Date: 2014

Journalistic Sentences

Should Law Students Call Professors ‘Professor X’ or Use First Names?
By Eugene Volokh, The Washington Post (August 22, 2016)
Pity the Substitute Teacher
By Sara Mosle, The Atlantic (October 2016)
Trapped in the Virtual Classroom
By David Bromwich, The New York Review of Books (July 9, 2015)
Work hard. Be Nice. (Excerpt)
By Jay Matthews, Work hard. Be Nice (2009)
A Miracle But Not a Mystery
By Seymour Fleigel & James MacGuire, Miracle in East Harlem, pp. 3-14 (1993)
The Coddling of the American Mind
By Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic (September 2015)
The Controversy Behind Chicago's Diploma Mandate
Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to set students up for success after graduation. But at public schools, even the best ideas often have unintended consequences.
By Alia Wong, The Atlantic (September 14, 2017)
Boys Are Not Defective: A case study in motivation, mixed messages, and the condition of boys everywhere
By Amanda Ripley, The Atlantic (September 21, 2017)
‘Alternative’ Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System
By Heather Vogell & Hannah Freques, ProPublica (February 21, 2017)
How and Why to Search for Young Einsteins: New Research Suggests New Ways to Nurture Gifted Children
The Economist (March 22, 2018)
Reading with Patrick
By Michelle Kuo, The American Scholar (Sept. 14, 2017)
How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Francisco
By Daniel Duane, Wired (June 28, 2018)
What Straight-A Students Get Wrong
By Adam Grant, The New York Times (December 8, 2018)
Academia Needs Conservative Professors
By Christian Alejandro Gonzalez, National Review (June 27, 2018)
Ivy-Covered Dystopia: Review of "The Diversity Delusion' by Heather Mac Donald
By Abigail Shrier, Commentary Magazine (October 2018)
They Had It Coming
By Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic (April 4, 2019)
Why Colleges are Betting Big on Video Games
By Luke Winkie, The Atlantic (November 13, 2019)
Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers
By Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic (September 19, 2019)
When the Culture War Comes for the Kids
By George Packer, The Atlantic (October 2019)

Great at Work by Morten Hansen
Publication Date: 2018

Ivy-Covered Dystopia
By Abigail Shrier, Commentary Magazine (November 2018)
School Wasn't So Great Before Covid, Either
By Erika Christakis, The Atlantic (December, 2020)
Teaching Should Be Political
By Clint Smith, The Atlantic (December 2020)

Supreme Court Sentences

Brief for the University of Texas
Gregory G. Garre, Counsel of Record in No. 14-981 in the Supreme Court of the United States (Fisher v. Univ. of Texas)
Reply Brief
Bert W. Rein, Counsel of Record in No. 14-981 in the Supreme Court of the United States (Fisher v. Univ. of Texas)
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
Brief on behalf of Grutter, by Kirk O. Kolbo, Counsel of Record
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
Brief on behalf of Bollinger, by Maureen Mahoney, Counsel of Record
Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association (2016) 136 S.Ct. 1083
Brief for Friedrichs, by Micheal A. Carvin, Counsel of Record
Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association (2016) 136 S.Ct. 1083
Brief for the Attorney General of California,
by Edward C. DuMont, Solicitor General
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002) 122 S. Ct. 2460
Brief for the State of Ohio by Judith L. French, Counsel of Record
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002) 122 S. Ct. 2460
Brief for Respondents Doris Simmons-Harris, et al., by Robert H. Chanin, Counsel of Record

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