Hope against hope
Subtitle: three schools, one city, and the struggle to educate America's children
By: Sarah Carr
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781608195138
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Educational change; Children with social disabilities; Education; Charter schools; Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-306) and index.

Internet Archive - 2

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Table of contents: title: Part I.; title: "The Christmas of school days" (August 2010).; title: The family --; title: The teacher --; title: The principal -- -- Part II.; title: Rebirth (summer 2005-summer 2010).; title: The family: "Don't be like me. Be a little better." --; title: The teacher: "Teaching is a series of things you do in response to the data you get." --; title: The principal: "We are going to get this thing called education right." -- -- Part III.; title: High hopes (summer/fall 2010).; title: The teacher: "A broken window means a broken path to college." --; title: The family: "We don't desire because we don't know what we are missing." --; title: The principal: "Our efforts should be spent on creating a school that's worth fighting for." -- -- Part IV.; title: Trouble (fall/winter 2010).; title: The teacher: "I want to go to a normal school." --; title: The family: "KIPP be trying to change us." --; title: The principal: "I thought all the stories would be good stories." -- -- Part V.; title: Higher education (winter 2011).; title: The teacher: "This is the way, hey! We start the day, hey! We get the knowledge, hey! To go to college!" --; title: The principal: "You want to go to college, baby?" --; title: The family: "Money makes money." -- -- Part VI.; title: Translations (spring 2011).; title: The principal: "In every child I see my children." --; title: The teacher: "Is it that our kids are able to see through some things their teachers blindly follow?" --; title: The family: "They said they love us already, but they don't really know us."