A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (687 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1610391047 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Chance to Make History cuts through the noise of today’s debates to describe precisely what it will take to provide transformational education—education that changes the academic and life trajectories predicted by children’s socioeconomic backgrounds. Sharing her experiences in some of the country’s most underserved communities, Kopp introduces leaders at the classroom, school, and system levels who, driven by passionate belief in their students’ potential, have set out to accomplish what most think impossible. Their inspiring stories show how we can provide children facing all the challenges of poverty with an excellent education, and that doing so invo
She cautions against looking for silver bullets (charter schools) or “silver scapegoats” (unmotivated students), arguing that there are no simple solutions but a collection of many multilayered answers, some combination of which will work in every school. From Booklist Now in its twentieth year, with more than 8,000 members teaching across the nation and an alumni influencing educational policy and challenging public schools, Teach for America has earned a respected place in the debate on educational reform. Following profiles of teachers and schools, she offers lessons that are widely applicable, including the imperative to set high expectations for children from low-income families and a commitment to or
So inspiring! Lora What an incredibly inspiring account of teachers, schools, administrators changing the game for kids growing up in low-income communities. Wendy Kopp has done an amazing job of showing example after example of hard work and thoughtful, purposeful actions leading to tremendous student achievement. She pushes us to think past whether we think we can make a difference and instead whether we are willing to put the energy into making history, because it is in within our reach. I am optimistic that this book and thes. educatorpartner said A Second Look At Teach for America. When Wendy Kopp envisioned Teach for America as part of her senior project at Princeton University, I believed that she was on to something special on two fronts.First, the program would provide an opportunity for a recent college graduates who had not planned to become teachers a chance to" test the waters." In an era of teacher shortages, it might have served to attract new recruits into the profession who had not considered teaching previously. Second, Kopp could have made a case for a national service commi. aviva said All kids deserve an excellent education!. I keep fairly abreast of the education reform movement, and have seen films like The Lottery and Waiting for Superman. As someone who grew up in a low-income community and went to public school there, academic achievement was always going to be my path to the wide world beyond my rural town of 5,000. Very few of us realized that dream, which we had all shared at one point or another, and slowly by slowly, often saw slipping away.Beyond believing that absolutely all children are capable of amazing things and eac