A chance to make history
Subtitle: what works and what doesn't in providing an excellent education for all
By: Wendy Kopp with Steven Farr
Contributors: Farr, Steven
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781586487409; 9781586489267
Subjects: Academic achievement; Teach for America (Project); Effective teaching; History
Description: America's failure to educate millions of children is a crisis that strikes at our fundamental ideals and health as a nation. Since 1990, Teach For America has been building a movement to end educational inequity in America. Now its founder, Wendy Kopp, shares the lessons learned from the experiences of more than 25,000 teachers and alumni who have taught and led schools in low-income communities . This book cuts through the noise of today's debates to describe what it will take to provide transformational education--education that changes the academic and life trajectories predicted by children's socioeconomic backgrounds. Kopp's experiences and insights also shine light on why we have not made more progress against educational inequity--how and why the misguided quest for easy answers actually distracts from the hard work--and on what we need to do now to increase the pace of change.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Teaching as leadership : lessons from transformational teachers --; title: No shortcuts : lessons from transformational schools --; title: Scaling success : lessons from improving systems --; title: Silver bullets and silver scapegoats --; title: Increasing the pace of change --; title: Transformational teaching as the foundation for transformational change --; title: Conclusion : whether we will --; title: Afterword : Transformational teaching and learning around the world.