The Teachers: A Year Inside America’s Most Important and Vulnerable Profession by Alexandra Robbins takes us inside the classroom to show us the daily lives of teachers as they fight against incredible odds to educate our young. An eye-opening, and at times shocking look at the American Education system and its inadequacies. Robbins asks the reader to forget all of their preconceived notions of teaching. The joys you think teachers know? They are bigger than you imagined. The difficulty and pain of operating in a system that doesn’t recognize your importance? Worse than you can fathom. Take a listen, read the book, and thank a teacher in your life today!

Books mentioned in this week's podcast:

• The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Important and Vulnerable Profession by Alexandra Robbins
• The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School by Alexandra Robbins
• The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids by Alexandra Robbins
• Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power by Alexandra Robbins
• The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital by Alexandra Robbins
• The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley
• Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools by Dianne Ravitch
• Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools by Dianne Ravitch
• The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education by Dianne Ravitch
• It by Stephen King
• Ararat by Christopher Golden
• Snowblind by Christopher Golden
• The Boys Are Back in Town by Christopher Golden
• Road of Bones by Christopher Golden
• All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum

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