Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids

Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids

**A New York Times Bestseller**

â€œMay be the most revealing depiction of the American contemporary classroom that we have to date." â€”Garret Keizer,Â The New York Times Book Review
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Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, in pursuit of the realities of American public education, signed up as a substitute teacher in a Maine public school district.

In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He awoke to the dispatcherâ€™s five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to one of several nearby schools; when he got there, he did his best to follow lesson plans and help his students get something done. What emerges from Bakerâ€™s experience is a complex, often touching deconstruction of public schooling in America: children swamped with overdue assignments, overÂwhelmed by the marvels and distractions of social media and educational technology, and staff who weary themselves trying to teach in step with an often outmoded or overly ambitious standard curriculum.
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In Bakerâ€™s hands, the inner life of the classroom is examined anewâ€”mundane workÂsheets, recess time-outs, surprise nosebleeds, rebellions, griefs, jealousies, minor triumphs, kindergarten show-and-tell, daily lessons on everything from geology to metal tech to the Holocaustâ€”as he and his pupils struggle to find ways to get through the day. Baker is one of the most inventive and remarkable writers of our time, and Substitute, filled with humor, honesty, and empathy, may be his most impressive work of nonfiction yet.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-09-06
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-09-06
Format	Kindle eBook

Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids

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