Small Victories The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School

Name: Small Victories The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School
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ISBN: 9780060920876

ISBN-10: 0060920874

ISBN-13: 9780060920876

Edition: N/A

Authors: Samuel G. Freedman

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Small Victories is Samuel Freedman's remarkable story of life on the front lines in the sort of high school that seems like a disaster with walls--old, urban, overcrowded, and overwhelmingly minority. Seaward Park High School, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, has been ranked among the worst 10 percent of high schools in the state--yet 92 percent of its graduates go on to higher education. The reason is dedicated teachers, one of whom, English instructor Jessica Siegel, is the subject of Freedman's unforgettably dramatic humanization of the education crisis. Following Siegel through the 1987-88 academic year, Freedman not only saw a master at work but learned from the inside just how a…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/23/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English