In the Classroom

Name: In the Classroom
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ISBN: 9780684827568

ISBN-10: 0684827565

ISBN-13: 9780684827568

Edition: 1997

Authors: Mark Gerson

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"Unlike any recent book on education and inner-city life, In the Classroom provides an intimate, unsparing, and hopeful portrait of a poor parochial high school that turns scant resources into success through discipline, faith, and the often untapped power of parents and teachers." "When Mark Gerson walked through the doors of a spartan Jersey City Catholic high school to begin a year of teaching, he entered a world that he, like most affluent young people, had never known. A young, Jewish, Frank Sinatra-loving, jacket-and-tie-wearing suburbanite, Gerson was placed in charge of mostly black and Hispanic inner-city students with a penchant for rap music, tough talk (and action), and…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 1/7/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction


Race


Religion


Discipline


History


Politics


O.J.


Immigrants


The City and the Suburbs


Acknowledgments