- Gebundene Ausgabe: 352 Seiten
- Verlag: Ballantine Books; Auflage: 1 (27. August 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0345447026
- ISBN-13: 978-0345447029
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 16,3 x 3,6 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.383.119 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Starting with the critical experiences of public schooling 40 years ago, every generation has needed its own storytellers to record America's chronic inability to create just schools for deserving communities. Following the model of such empathic and articulate eyewitnesses as George Dennison and Jonathan Kozol, Schorr provides highly detailed observations of an Oakland charter school, the E. C. Reems Academy. Like all educational stories, this one has the essential mix of ingredients. The human players compose an unstable cast of invested folks: diverse kids, inexperienced teachers, anxious parents, tense administrators, and politicized community observers. Surrounding factors make up an entire record of the social issues and aspirations that affect such ventures: low school achievement, recent immigrant populations, homeless families, poor materials, and the cultural marginality of education as a priority. The result is a story that measures out hope in teaspoons, and frustration by the cup. Schorr is a warm and graceful writer with all of the right sensitivities for perceiving this mix and understanding its ambiguities. David Carr
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“A very thoughtful and and intimate examination of the competing dreams and challenges faced by one community seeking a better way to educate its children. It will illuminate the current national debate about how to create schools where every child is expected and enabled to achieve and succeed.”
—MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN
Children’s Defense Fund
“I started listing the people to whom I wanted to give this book, then stopped when I realized I wanted to give it to everyone. Schorr’s unsentimental but deeply humane account of the promise and problems of charter schools is not only a shrewd analysis of what makes them work, what makes them fail, and what they need to succeed, but a hold-your-breath drama populated with unforgettable characters who will linger in your mind and break your heart. With the eye and reporting skills of a first-class journalist and story-telling worthy of a novelist, Schorr has produced one knock-out of a book.”
—JUDITH VIORST
Author of Necessary Losses
—MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN
Children’s Defense Fund
“I started listing the people to whom I wanted to give this book, then stopped when I realized I wanted to give it to everyone. Schorr’s unsentimental but deeply humane account of the promise and problems of charter schools is not only a shrewd analysis of what makes them work, what makes them fail, and what they need to succeed, but a hold-your-breath drama populated with unforgettable characters who will linger in your mind and break your heart. With the eye and reporting skills of a first-class journalist and story-telling worthy of a novelist, Schorr has produced one knock-out of a book.”
—JUDITH VIORST
Author of Necessary Losses
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Great Education Story With Lessons Beyond Education
28. Oktober 2009
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I always like reading about industries unfamiliar to me firsthand because success and obstacles have common threads across industries, and looking from the outside in often gives a perspective that is tough to see when you're waist deep in immediate issues. Jonathan Schorr's Hard Lessons is a play-by-play of Oakland's struggle to open charter schools in the inner city. Told from multiple points of view -- teacher, student, parent, administration -- it's a fascinating story but also a good coaching book. Some lessons from Hard Lessons:
Progress can take a while. Schorr spends time describing the difficult start-up phase before and after the charter schools opened. You can feel how slow and seemingly hopeless the circumstances were. Yet, because we can see the fruits of plowing through the difficulty, we get the benefit (without the interminable wait) of hindsight and the encouragement that we too can prevail if we want something as badly as some of those parents wanted a good education for their kids.
But just because we push doesn't mean we have to rush. Some of the biggest problems came when decisions were rushed -- hiring calls where no references were checked, teachers using an approach without training and therefore digging a deeper hole for themselves. There are numerous examples of haste makes waste here. It reminds us that even when we want to move things forward, we shouldn't push things.
Sometimes you need to reconsider options you earlier might have dismissed. The parents who lobbied so hard against the district schools later aligned themselves with the district when a new administration came in. Great lesson on how we shouldn't be afraid to go back, reassess, and perhaps move in a direction that was not ideal before. Our circumstances change, and we should always adjust for what's best now, even if that means doing something deemed less than ideal before.
Progress can take a while. Schorr spends time describing the difficult start-up phase before and after the charter schools opened. You can feel how slow and seemingly hopeless the circumstances were. Yet, because we can see the fruits of plowing through the difficulty, we get the benefit (without the interminable wait) of hindsight and the encouragement that we too can prevail if we want something as badly as some of those parents wanted a good education for their kids.
But just because we push doesn't mean we have to rush. Some of the biggest problems came when decisions were rushed -- hiring calls where no references were checked, teachers using an approach without training and therefore digging a deeper hole for themselves. There are numerous examples of haste makes waste here. It reminds us that even when we want to move things forward, we shouldn't push things.
Sometimes you need to reconsider options you earlier might have dismissed. The parents who lobbied so hard against the district schools later aligned themselves with the district when a new administration came in. Great lesson on how we shouldn't be afraid to go back, reassess, and perhaps move in a direction that was not ideal before. Our circumstances change, and we should always adjust for what's best now, even if that means doing something deemed less than ideal before.
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