Life in School What the Teacher Learned

"In the first half of her exquisite, riveting memoir, Tompkins tells the story of her life with compelling openness, a feel for emotional interiors, and the deftness of a practiced short-story writer....The second half of the book is downright subversive, especially for someone who earns a living in a classroom. Tompkins realized that there was something wrong with her teaching....[Tompkins has] feed herself to write a beautiful, vulnerable, dangerous book. If you care about school, or learning, give 'A Life in School' to a teacher you like."Tompkins, Jane is the author of 'Life in School What the Teacher Learned', published 1996 under ISBN 9780201327991 and ISBN 0201327996.