Not Another Apple for the Teacher: Hundreds of Fascinating Facts from the World of Education

by Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo

Overview

Here are over 500 amazing, amusing little-known facts you will never learn in the classroom. In Not Another Apple for the Teacher, trivia experts Erin Barrett and Jack Mango offer tasty tidbits about teachers, students, administrators, and schools. This clever compilation will make you laugh out loud while learning juicy facts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781573247238
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	11/01/2002
Series:	Totally Riveting Utterly Entertaining Trivia
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo have authored 20 books, including How the Cadillac Got Its Fins, The Couch Potato Guide to Life and the bestselling Just Curious Jeeves. They have written articles for many major periodicals including The New York Times, Salon, Reader's Digest, and The Washington Post and have generated more than 30,000 questions for trivia games and game shows such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Their website, which lists their "This Day in History" nationallysyndicated column.

Along with Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo published over 20 books, including Random Kinds of Factness (Conari, 2005, over 20,000 copies). He is a fulltime writer specializing in somewhat offbeat trivia books. In his spare time, Jack keeps six hives and half a million bees in his Alameda (Bay Area) backyard and sells their honey at local farmers markets. His bees produce 650 pounds of honey per year (59 gallons, 472 pint jars).

Editorial Reviews

Barrett and Mingo have authored 20 books, generated more than 30,000 questions for trivia games, and contributed articles to major periodicals, including Salon, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Reader's Digest. Their new book is not a typical research study about education and teachers but instead a crash course in "teacher trivia" that will leave teachers and lay readers laughing. The book abounds in entertaining quips about the quirks of learning, e.g., one teacher's assessment that Thomas Alva Edison was an "addled, backward dunce," and though some passages are odd or even sobering, the text is more illuminating than one might expect from such a collection. From "Educational Follies" to "Life on Campus," this book has the world of education covered. Recommended for public library and some academic collections.-Samuel T. Huang, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

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