Blackboard, Lewis Buzbee
Blackboard, Lewis Buzbee
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Blackboard
A Personal History of the Classroom

Author: Lewis Buzbee

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 5 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/02/2014

Categories: Nonfiction, Education

Synopsis

Lewis 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.

About Lewis Buzbee

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 He sold his first two short stories in 1979 and has been published, and unpublished, since then.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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Biblio on April 26, 2014

I very much enjoyed Lewis Buzbee's personal history partly because so much of it reminded me of my own personal history. He went to school in middle class suburban San Jose beginning with kindergarten in 1965, and so did I. I didn't go to the same schools he went to, but we were only a few miles awa......more

Goodreads review by Adam on March 04, 2025

This memoir takes you through Buzbee’s memories of school. The best parts are the facts that are covered that tie to each chapter’s memory.......more

Goodreads review by Xandra on February 22, 2025

I enjoyed this. The mix of memoir and educational history worked really well. A perfect weekend read.......more

Goodreads review by Kris on October 18, 2016

Quite enjoyable and light.......more

Goodreads review by Gary on September 01, 2014

This book is a warm meditation on what it means to go to school, to get an education, and to give one. It's clear that the author actually think these things are synonymous. His description of how California went from a ranking in U.S. of number two when I as in school to number 49 today is a replay......more

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