The Essential 55: An Award-winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Stud...
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Written by Ron Clark.
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Now in paperback, Ron Clark's New York Times bestseller that's changing America one child at a time!The runaway bestseller that's a must-have for every parent and teacher. How many authors would travel coast to coast on a bus to get their book into as many hands as possible? Not many. But that's just what Ron Clark, author of The Essential 55, did to keep his book and message in the public eye. And it worked. After his Oprah appearance, sales skyrocketed: we've sold more than 850,000 copies in six months! The book sat tenaciously on the New York Times bestseller list for 11 weeks. Ron Clark was featured on the Today show, and in the Chicago Tribune, Good Housekeeping, and the New York Daily News -- not to mention the calls we've received from teachers and parents who want to get their hands on Ron's guidelines for teaching children.
Now in paperback, The Essential 55 will be the perfect book for parents and teachers to slip into their own backpacks, to read on the train or at lunch, and to highlight the sections that resonate for them. And with an author who is truly a partner in getting his message to the masses, we just can't lose.
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Lin Snow thinks this book is Terrible.
I should've known what I was getting into when I paid $2 for this book on a clearance rack!
The vast majority of these 55 tips take control away from the child and put it in the hands of a big-headed teacher who will punish them to shocking extremes for things like not saying "thank you" within 3 seconds, for not knowing which is a salad fork, or (most arbitrarily) bringing Doritos into the classroom. The icing on the cake is the teacher's fallibility: he admits to not wanting to be a teacher at all, and commits awful acts of agression and poor judgment throughout this little rule book.
The author's lack of writing experience is painfully evident as he will go off on long tangents while describing a rule. Most of the rules are based simply on things that he and his class did, which gives no help to anyone wanting to follow the advice (ie: get a $12,000 anonymous donor and take your kids to the White House!)
This book boils down to one big ego stroke thanks to his "award-winning" status, and is one of a handful he wrote while riding on his fifteen seconds of fame. I'm sure the others are equally useless.