The Opportunity Equation : How Citizen Teachers Are Combating the Achievement Gap in America's Schools (Hardcover)

from velopunk

I tried to read this book but found it tiresome. The American family is in serious trouble. I find the achievement gap linked to that fact. Children in the United States are offered twelve years of free public education. Now this even comes with meals at school. Welfare programs decrease the ince...

from mmoj

I received this book for free from LibraryThing in exchange for review. I enjoyed this book. I think as educators we can be rather hide-bound. This Citizen Schools project helps to remind us that a reason low-income students are under-performing is because they do not have the depth of experience...

from roadkill6

Part memoir, part sales pitch. Eric Schwarz (of F.A.O. Schwarz fame) chronicles his life and education, as well as his wife's, and tells us about how and why he started Citizen Schools, a program designed to supplement normal school days with after-school project-based learning and vocational tra...

from lucas20

This was a somewhat interesting memoir of the author's work in creating the Citizen Schools program. The book also spends a good deal of time advocating for the expansion of the program in low income neighborhoods across the country. The memoir piece is stronger than the advocacy piece which suff...

from quaintlittlehead

In this book, Eric Schwarz describes his path from privileged descendant of the FAO Schwarz toy empire, hobnobbing with the likes of JFK, Jr. and Gary Hart, to founder of the non-profit Citizen Schools, which recruits professionals to come to low-income middle schools for extended-day after-schoo...