Hard Lessons: The Promise of an Inner City Charter School - Rilegato

Schorr, Jonathan

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ISBN 10: 0345447026 ISBN 13: 9780345447029

Casa editrice: Ballantine Books, 2002

Riassunto

Based on three years of research and interviews with students, teachers, and parents, a journalist descrbies the creation of a charter school, the E. C. Reems Academy, from its establishment in 1999 in a poverty-stricken neighborhood of Oakland, California.

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Recensione

“A very thoughtful and and intimate examination of the competing dreams and challenges faced by one community seeking a better way to educate its children. It will illuminate the current national debate about how to create schools where every child is expected and enabled to achieve and succeed.”
—MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN
Children’s Defense Fund

“I started listing the people to whom I wanted to give this book, then stopped when I realized I wanted to give it to everyone. Schorr’s unsentimental but deeply humane account of the promise and problems of charter schools is not only a shrewd analysis of what makes them work, what makes them fail, and what they need to succeed, but a hold-your-breath drama populated with unforgettable characters who will linger in your mind and break your heart. With the eye and reporting skills of a first-class journalist and story-telling worthy of a novelist, Schorr has produced one knock-out of a book.”
—JUDITH VIORST
Author of Necessary Losses

L'autore

Jonathan Schorr is a native of Washington, D.C. He graduated from Yale University and earned a California teaching credential at Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles. He is a former urban public school teacher and a former reporter for the Oakland Tribune. His writing on education has been published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Education Week, The Nation, and Salon. He lives in Oakland, California.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Ballantine Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0345447026
• ISBN 13: 9780345447029
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 338