A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All
ISBN: 9781586487409 | 158648740X
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date: 1/25/2011
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Since 1990, Teach For America has been building a movement to end educational inequity. Now its founder, Wendy Kopp, shares the lessons learned from the experiences of 25,000 teachers and alumni who have taught in low-income communities during those years--lessons that inspire great optimism.Kopp introduces leaders who, driven by passionate belief in their students' potential, have set out to accomplish what most think impossible at the classroom, school, and system levels. Their examples show that it is possible to provide children facing all ... MORE
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Teaching as Leadership | p. 13 |
| Lessons from Transformational Teachers | |
| No Shortcuts | p. 39 |
| Lessons from Transformational Schools | |
| Scaling Success | p. 77 |
| Lessons from Improving Systems | |
| Silver Bullets and Silver Scapegoats | p. 111 |
| Increasing the Pace of Change | p. 143 |
| Transformational Teaching as t... MORE | p. 177 |
| Conclusion Whether We Will | p. 203 |
| Afterword: Transformational Teaching and Learning Around the World | p. 209 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 217 |
| Notes | p. 219 |
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Wendy Kopp is the founder and president of Teach For America and the author of One Day, All Children. She lives in New York City.
Steven Farr, Teach for America’s vice president for knowledge development and public engagement, is also the author of Teaching as Leadership.
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