A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All
ISBN: 9781610391047 | 1610391047
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date: 2/28/2012
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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 during those years. A Chance to Make Historycuts 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.... MORE
| Author's Note to the Paperback Edition | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Teaching as Leadership | p. 13 |
| Lessons from Transformational Teachers | |
| No Shortcuts | p. 89 |
| Lessons from Transformational Schools | |
| Scaling Success | p. 77 |
| Lessons from Improving Systems | |
| Silver Bullets and Silver Scapegoats | p. 111 |
| Increasing the Pace o... MORE | p. 143 |
| Transformational Teaching as the Foundation for Transformational Change | p. 177 |
| Conclusion | p. 203 |
| Whether We Will | |
| Afterword: Transformational Teaching and Learning Around the World | p. 209 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 217 |
| Notes | p. 219 |
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