This Isn't The Movies: 25 Years in the Classroom

Charles Ellenbogen has been teaching for a long time. He moved into his first classroom when Bill Clinton moved into the White House and has been teaching long enough to see Hillary Clinton lose an election and to hear a student point to a picture of the Clintons and say Thats Hillary Clinton and. . . and her husband.That doesnt mean hes especially good at it; it just means that hes been doing it a long time. It doesnt mean he has 38 Recipes for Great Teaching; it does mean he has a lot of stories. And these are some of them. You will laugh at some and get frustrated or even angry at others. But they all are real and some of them dont end well because after all this isnt the movies.