A Chance to Make History : What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All (Paperback)

from adamps

This book was surprisingly better than anticipated. I was expecting the same dry run through of Teach for America as an organization full of history and public relations lines. Instead, I got an insightful and complication look at the current state of education affairs that was more inquisitive t...

from lg4154

I won the audio version thru Library Thing. It took mr awhile to listen to it and I am not in the teaching field and really did not get a whole lot out of this audio. Maybe I need to stick to print copies.

from eo206

Wendy Kopp's book A Chance to Make History looks at modern education reform. In her writing she profiles several teacher and writes about what makes them exceptional at their jobs. The book is not a "how to" guide on becoming a better teacher nor does it fall into the education reform manual cate...

from Joles

My opinion of this book is rather neutral. As a teacher I was hoping that this book would be able to help give me ideas about what I could do differently in the classroom, but unfortunately it seemed more of just a celebration of the successes of Teach For America. While it is wonderful that the ...

from walterqchocobo

This book wavers between memoir of the first 20 years of Teach for America and a call to action to change the education system in the United States. I have heard of Teach for America before but didn't know much about it so those sections of the book were very interesting. The author gives several...