Lessons to Learn

Molly Ness

• 26 november 2003
• 9780415945905

Samenvatting:

Combining real-life experience, interviews and essays, this book tells the story of the US graduates joining Teach for America. Furthermore, with contributions from other professionals in the field, it discusses the topic of education reform.

This is the inside story of the more than 8,000 recent college graduates who have joined Teach for America and committed two years of service to teaching in the nation's most troubled public schools. In the tradition of books by Studs Terkel, Ness combines interviews and essays from TFA members and alumni as well as principals, superintendents, parents, and noted education experts.