Peace Hill Press
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Peace Hill Press is an American publishing company based in Charles City County, Virginia
. Peace Hill Press publishes books that fit within the framework of the classical model of education. Their most popular series is The Story of the World (Susan Wise Bauer
), a four-volume narrative history of the world, written for elementary-aged students.
Susan Wise Bauer is a professor at William and Mary University. Besides The Story of the world series she has developed a writing program called Writing With Ease. This program naturally progresses a student from copy work, dictation, to outlining, writing topic sentences, to finally writing essays. Susan Wise Bauer's inspiration for the program stemmed from the many college freshmen who did not know how to write complete sentences let alone write essays.
Peace Hill Press books are distributed internationally by W.W. Norton.
Charles City County, Virginia
As of the census of 2000, there were 6,926 people, 2,670 households, and 1,975 families residing in the county. The population density was 38 people per square mile . There were 2,895 housing units at an average density of 16 per square mile...
. Peace Hill Press publishes books that fit within the framework of the classical model of education. Their most popular series is The Story of the World (Susan Wise Bauer
Susan Wise Bauer
Susan Wise Bauer is an American author, English instructor of writing and American literature at The College of William and Mary, and founder of Peace Hill Press....
), a four-volume narrative history of the world, written for elementary-aged students.
Susan Wise Bauer is a professor at William and Mary University. Besides The Story of the world series she has developed a writing program called Writing With Ease. This program naturally progresses a student from copy work, dictation, to outlining, writing topic sentences, to finally writing essays. Susan Wise Bauer's inspiration for the program stemmed from the many college freshmen who did not know how to write complete sentences let alone write essays.
Peace Hill Press books are distributed internationally by W.W. Norton.