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A Chance To Make History
Wendy Kopp
What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All
PublicAffairs
February 2011
On Sale: January 25, 2011
240 pages ISBN: 158648740X EAN: 9781586487409 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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 History cuts 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.
Sharing her experiences in some of the country’s most
underserved communities, Kopp introduces leaders at the
classroom, school, and system levels who, driven by
passionate belief in their students’ potential, have set out
to accomplish what most think impossible. Their inspiring
stories show how we can provide children facing all the
challenges of poverty with an excellent education, and that
doing so involves the same ingredients that account for
success in any endeavor: visionary leadership that sets
ambitious goals and puts forth the energy and discipline to
reach them.
Kopp’s experiences and insights also shine light on why we
have not made more progress against educational inequity—how
and why the intense but misguided quest for easy answers
actually distracts from the hard work of expanding on the
growing pockets of success in low-income communities—and on
what we need to do now to increase the pace of change.
America’s failure to educate millions of children to fulfill
their potential is a crisis that strikes at our fundamental
ideals and health as a nation. A Chance to Make History
offers tangible evidence that we can change direction and
provide all children the opportunity to attain an excellent
education.
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