Chalkboard champions
Subtitle: twelve remarkable teachers who educated America's disenfranchised students
By: Terry Lee Marzell
Publisher: Wheatmark
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tucson, Arizona
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781604948103; 9781604948349
Subjects: Teachers of children with social disabilities; Biography; Children with social disabilities; Education; History
Notes: Includes bibliography (page 247-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Charlotte Forten Grimke : she taught emancipated slaves; title: Elaine Goodale Eastman : she was a sister to the Indians; title: Julia Richman : she was a champion for Jewish immigrants; title: Annie Sullivan Macy : she pioneered education for the handicapped; title: Carter Goodwin Woodson : he originated Black History month; title: Clara Comstock : she found homes for the orphans; title: Eulalia Collins Bourne : she educated little cowpunchers; title: Leonard Covello : he was an innovator of cultural pluralism; title: Gladys Kamakakuokalani Brandt : she taught native Hawaiians; title: Mary Tsukamoto : she developed internment camp programs; title: Sandra Adickes : she taught in a civil rights freedom school; title: Jaime Escalante : he championed Latino American students.