About Educator/Author ROBERT EIDELBERG A former print journalist, Robert Eidelberg served for thirty-two years as a secondary school teacher of English language arts and literature in the largest urban school system in the United States - the New York City school system - with nineteen and a half of those years as a teacher, an advisor, a supervising mentor, and the chair of the English Department and the Library Media Center of a highly diverse and 4,000-strong Queens neighborhood high school names after the poet and the editor William Cullen Byant. For several years after that, Mr. Eidelberg was an editorial consultant to Amsco, a foundational school publications company, as well as a writing instructor in several public and private community colleges and a student-teaching field supervisor and mentor in English education on the campus of Brooklyn College of the City University of New York under the auspices of the national Teaching Fellows Program. For the past twenty-two years, Mr. Eidelberg has been a college adjunct in both the School Education and in the English Department of Hunter College of the City University of New York. At Hunter College, Mr. Eidelberg currentl offer there English Department special topics literature sturdy and creative courses especially created for undergraduates either majoring or minoring in English, sociology, philosophy, psychology, history, and the science; The Teacher and Student Literature, The Literature of Waiting, and Paying Detectives. As an author and editor, Mr. Eidelberg has published to date twelve intellectual-growth self-improvement books featuring his unique interactive "books with a built-in teacher" approach to close reading, critical thinking, and creative writing.
