Work Hard. Be Nice How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America

Name: Work Hard. Be Nice How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America
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ISBN: 9781565125162

ISBN-10: 1565125169

ISBN-13: 9781565125162

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jay Mathews

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When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that-and more. In their early twenties, by sheer force of talent and determination never to take no for an answer, they created a wildly successful fifth-grade experience that would grow into the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), which today includes sixty-six schools in nineteen states and the District of Columbia. KIPP schools incorporate what Feinberg and Levin learned from America's best, most charismatic teachers: lessons need to be lively; school days need to be longer (the KIPP…

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List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 1/20/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 329
Size: 13.15" wide x 0.90" long x 6.00" tall
Weight: 0.748