Aaron Pribble: 2 books
Pitching in the Promised Land
A Story of the First and Only Season in the Israel Baseball League
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
It was the first (and last) season of professional baseball in Israel. Aaron Pribble, twenty-seven, had been out of Minor League Baseball for three years while he pursued a career in education when, at his coach’s suggestion, he tried out for the newly formed Israel Baseball League (IBL). Of Jewish...
Teacherland
Inside the Myth of the American Educator
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
In the popular narrative teachers are cast as saints or slouches, heroes or zeros. They either forgo their material well-being for the reward of a higher calling, or they show movies, have too much time off, and are impossible to fire.
Teacherland fills the gap between these two clichés with insight,...