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How Two Inspired Teachers Created The Most Promising Schools In America
Algonquin Books
January 2009
On Sale: January 20, 2009
329 pages
ISBN: 1565125169
EAN: 9781565125162
Kindle: B003I1WXZS
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Non-Fiction
When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for
America right after college and found themselves utter
failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves
into superior educators. They did that—and more. In their
early twenties, by sheer force of talent and determination
never to take no for an answer, they created a wildly
successful fifth-grade experience that would grow into the
Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), which today includes
sixty-six schools in nineteen states and the District of
Columbia.
KIPP schools incorporate what Feinberg
and Levin learned from America's best, most charismatic
teachers: lessons need to be lively; school days need to be
longer (the KIPP day is nine and a half hours); the
completion of homework has to be sacrosanct (KIPP teachers
are available by telephone day and night). Chants, songs,
and slogans such as "Work hard, be nice" energize the
program. Illuminating the ups and downs of the KIPP founders
and their students, Mathews gives us something quite rare: a
hopeful book about education.
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