Anchor Press-Doubleday

INTRODUCTIONt iJI:"n the spring of 1976, Foxfire magazine will be ten years old. By all the -normal standards of measurement, we should have plenty to celebrate, for Foxfire has not only survived, but is being called one of the most dramatically successful high school projects in sight.By 1976, our...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTSI 1 I 1II'llV'.i.!; i ! .Hundreds of people have helped us, and to those peoplethey all know who they arewe literally owe our survival. A list of them would encompass everyone from parents who have let us send their kids into the mountains alone, to school administrators who have let...

Author's Note this is a reporter's book on a passionate subject. Reporters pick one of three roads, and they owe their readers some signposts. They can report facts, filtering out any point of view. They can write as editorialists, selecting an argument and then marshaling the facts to support...

INTRODUCTIONIconstantly find myself in awkward situations. Anniong the most uncomfortable are those in which I have accepted an invitation to work as a consultant for a day or two in a public school. Suddenly there I am, standing in front of a group of teachers who have every reason to expect me to...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A project of this sort reaches out and involves so many people. My father, for example. It was he who brought me to the mountains when I was a small boy. I never forgot. And it was Mary Hambidge, Margaret's honey cookies and cheese souffles, Dean's quiet strength and Claude's...

INTRODUCTIONThere are several forces in the lives of teachers that seem to l)e universal. One of these forces, despite anything we can do to counteract it, sees to it that certain students will remain imi)edded in our memories.I've had my share, so far, of students like that. They are indelible....

Preface In the years that have elapsed since Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev's enforced retirement much has been said and written about him outside the Soviet Union; hardly a word about him has been published in his own country. Yet he is remembered here, just as he is elsewhere — and that is...