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Learn moreLewis Buzbee looks back over a lifetime of experiences in schools and classrooms, from kindergarten to college and beyond. He offers fascinating histories of the key ideas informing educational practice over the centuries, which have shaped everything from class size to the layout of desks and chairs. Buzbee deftly weaves his own biography into this overview, approaching his subject as a student, a father, and a teacher. He credits his success to the well-funded California public school system and bemoans the terrible price that state is paying as a result of funding being cut from today's budgets. For Buzbee, the blackboard is a precious window into the wider world, which we ignore at our peril.
Lewis Buzbee began writing in 1972, at the unripe age of 15. He sold his first two short stories in 1979 and has been published, and unpublished, since then. Since 2000, he's been on the faculty of the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. He and his wife, the poet Julie Bruck, live with their daughter Maddy in San Francisco, just half a block from Golden Gate Park.
Mike Chamberlain has narrated audiobooks for Random House Audio, Blackstone Audio, Harper Audio, Penguin Audio, and Audible.com. His other voice work includes NBC Sports, The US Army, and Amazon.com. Mike's originally from New Jersey, and met his wife while performing theater in Boston. They now live in Southern California with their daughter.