How The Other Half Learns
Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice
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- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
2 June 2020
Summary
An inside look at America’s most controversial charter schools, and the moral and political questions around public education and school choice.
The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America. In How the Other Half Learns, teacher and education journalist Robert Pondiscio focuses on Success Academy, the network of controversial charter schools in New York City founded by Eva Moskowitz, w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780525533757 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0525533753 |
| Author: | Robert Pondiscio |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 2 June 2020 |
| Weight: | 443g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“Robert Pondiscio is one of our nation’s most astute observers of K-12 education. In this engaging, wise, and enormously well reported book, he trains his penetrating eye on Success Academy, the highest performing charter network in America. Having spent a year at one of the schools, he methodically unpacks the ‘magic’ that makes Success so successful, while not shying away from legitimate criticism. The result is both compelling and illuminating.”—Joel Klein, former chancellor of the New York City Department of Education; author of Lessons of Hope: How to Fix Our Schools
“Engrossing, challenging, and wise, this book will change how you think about schooling and poverty.“—Daniel T. Willingham, professor of psychology, University of Virginia; author of Why Don’t Students Like School?
“Do not miss this fusion of a masterful writer and one of the most interesting leaders in education today. Pondiscio observes, respects, and illuminates the real work that teachers, students and parents do every day.”—David Coleman, CEO of the College Board
“A moving and dramatic story and a minute-by-minute account of how a school actually lives. In a field dominated by dry-as-bones analyses, this is an up close look at education as lived by real, flesh and blood students, with names, written by a dedicated teacher. It is arresting, informative, and compelling. A school succeeds or fails by its ethos, and reading this book qualifies as an extended visit into the inner workings of that ethos in schools that are succeeding against the odds.”—William J. Bennett, former Secretary of Education; author of The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories
Robert Pondiscio
Robert Pondiscio is senior fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a former inner-city public school teacher. He writes and speaks extensively on education and education reform issues and has more than twenty years of journalism experience, including senior positions at Time and BusinessWeek.
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