<![CDATA[EdNews.org - The Internets #1 source for Education News and Information - Articles - Book Review]]> http://theednews.org en-us N/A [email protected] Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:17:04 EDT 20 <![CDATA[Book Review: The Oxygen Revolution]]> http://theednews.org/articles/17779/1/Book-Review-The-Oxygen-Revolution/Page1.html Michael F. Shaughnessy
Senior Columnist EdNews.org
Eastern New Mexico University
Every once in a while a book comes along that deserves to be recognized, discussed, and reviewed. Such a book is The Oxygen Revolution, written by Paul G. Harch, M.D. and Virginia McCullough. The book is published by Hatherleigh Press out of Long Island City in New York.]]>
[email protected] (Michael F. Shaughnessy Senior Columnist EdNews.org) Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:34:22 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/17779/1/Book-Review-The-Oxygen-Revolution/Page1.html
<![CDATA[Passage from India for a math genius]]> http://theednews.org/articles/17479/1/Passage-from-India-for-a-math-genius/Page1.html [email protected] (Christian Science Monitor) Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:11:40 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/17479/1/Passage-from-India-for-a-math-genius/Page1.html <![CDATA[An Interview with Dinesh D�Souza]]> http://theednews.org/articles/17269/1/An-Interview-with-Dinesh-DSouza/Page1.html Senior Columnist EdNews.org
Cynthia Kleyn-KennedyEastern New Mexico University

In this taped telephone interview, he responds to a few questions about his book, education in America and responds to questions about his recent debate with Alan Wolfe. Recently, you debated Alan Wolfe at Boston College, but apparently, Boston College has refused to release the video tape of the debate. ]]>
[email protected] (Michael F. Shaughnessy Senior Columnist EdNews.org) Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:12:27 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/17269/1/An-Interview-with-Dinesh-DSouza/Page1.html
<![CDATA[Commentary and Book Review: The Boy in the Window]]> http://theednews.org/articles/17253/1/Commentary-and-Book-Review-The-Boy-in-the-Window/Page1.html Senior Columnist EdNews.org
Eastern New Mexico University
Barbara Coppo has written a clear, cogent, concise book about what it is like to have a child with autism. The book is entitled “ The Boy in the Window “ and it chronicles the journey that Barbara has traversed attempting to get help and assistance for her son.]]>
[email protected] (Michael F. Shaughnessy Senior Columnist EdNews.org) Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:22:35 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/17253/1/Commentary-and-Book-Review-The-Boy-in-the-Window/Page1.html
<![CDATA[Author takes us inside the 'Teachers' Lounge']]> http://theednews.org/articles/16721/1/Author-takes-us-inside-the-039Teachers039-Lounge039/Page1.html In his first book, Daddy Needs a Drink (2006), author Robert Wilder offered a comic, slightly R-rated memoir of parenting. In his new book, Tales From the Teachers' Lounge (Delacorte, $23), Wilder, a longtime English teacher, reflects in similar fashion on his 18 years of teaching ]]> [email protected] (USA Today) Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:10:58 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/16721/1/Author-takes-us-inside-the-039Teachers039-Lounge039/Page1.html <![CDATA[Cookbooks for college students]]> http://theednews.org/articles/16280/1/Cookbooks-for-college-students/Page1.html [email protected] (Salt Lake Tribune) Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:44:28 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/16280/1/Cookbooks-for-college-students/Page1.html <![CDATA[The (new) idea of a university]]> http://theednews.org/articles/16257/1/The-new-idea-of-a-university/Page1.html [email protected] (Globe and Mail (Canada)) Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:56:11 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/16257/1/The-new-idea-of-a-university/Page1.html <![CDATA[Madman or Visionary? New Biography Explores the Legacy of Teacher Union Leader Albert Shanker]]> http://theednews.org/articles/16059/1/Madman-or-Visionary-New-Biography-Explores-the-Legacy-of--Teacher-Union-Leader-Albert-Shanker/Page1.html NEW YORK CITY— Woody Allen's 1973 science fiction comedy Sleeper depicted teacher union leader AlbertShanker as a madman who destroyed the world, but a new biography finds Shanker]]> [email protected] (Book Review) Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:50:46 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/16059/1/Madman-or-Visionary-New-Biography-Explores-the-Legacy-of--Teacher-Union-Leader-Albert-Shanker/Page1.html <![CDATA[The Emergency Teacher: The Inspirational Story of a New Teacher in an Inner City School]]> http://theednews.org/articles/14913/1/The-Emergency-Teacher-The-Inspirational-Story-of-a-New-Teacher-in-an-Inner-City-School/Page1.html  

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[email protected] (Christina Asquith Middle East Correspondent for EdNews.org) Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:59:35 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/14913/1/The-Emergency-Teacher-The-Inspirational-Story-of-a-New-Teacher-in-an-Inner-City-School/Page1.html
<![CDATA[AN INTERVIEW WITH RUSSELL EISENMAN: ABOUT CREATIVITY, MENTAL ILLNESS, AND CRIME]]> http://theednews.org/articles/14545/1/AN-INTERVIEW-WITH-RUSSELL-EISENMAN-ABOUT-CREATIVITY-MENTAL-ILLNESS-AND-CRIME/Page1.html Senior Columnist EdNews.org
Eastern New Mexico University
Your latest book is entitled "Creativity, Mental Illness and Crime"
How do these three things fit together? Many believe that creativity is often or always accompanied by mental illness. The research shows this is not the case. In fact, from my experience and from research by me and others, mental illness usually weakens or prevents creativity. However, there is one case where creativity and mental illness may go together: ]]>
[email protected] (Michael F. Shaughnessy Senior Columnist EdNews.org) Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:49:48 EDT http://theednews.org/articles/14545/1/AN-INTERVIEW-WITH-RUSSELL-EISENMAN-ABOUT-CREATIVITY-MENTAL-ILLNESS-AND-CRIME/Page1.html