Purchase
The National Book Award-winning Author and Educator Gently Guides A First-Year Teacher into "The Joys and Challenges and Passionate Rewards of a Beautiful Profession."
Crown
September 2007
On Sale: August 21, 2007
304 pages
ISBN: 0307393712
EAN: 9780307393715
Hardcover
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction
In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first grade
teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol
vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom
while, under Francesca’s likably irreverent questioning, he
also reveals his own most personal stories of the years that
he has spent in public schools. Letters to a Young Teacher reignites a numberof the
controversial issues Jonathan has powerfully addressed in
recent years: the mania of high-stakes testing that turns
many classrooms into test-prep factories where spontaneity
and critical intelligence are no longer valued, the invasion
of our public schools by predatory private corporations, and
the inequalities of urban schools that are once again almost
as segregated as they were a century ago. But most of all, these letters are rich with the happiness
of teaching children, the curiosity and jubilant excitement
children bring into the classroom at an early age, and their
ability to overcome their insecurities when they are in the
hands of an adoring and hard-working teacher.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2024 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy