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    Letters to a Young Teacher
    Letters to a Young Teacher
    Letters to a Young Teacher
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    Letters to a Young Teacher

    Written by Jonathan Kozol

    Narrated by David Drummond

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    In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca's likably irreverent questioning, also revealing his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools.

    Letters to a Young Teacher reignites a number of the controversial issues that Kozol has powerfully addressed in recent years: the mania of high-stakes testing that turns many classrooms into test-prep factories where spontaneity and critical intelligence are no longer valued, the invasion of our public schools by predatory private corporations, and the inequalities of urban schools that are once again almost as segregated as they were a century ago.

    But most of all, these letters are rich with the happiness of teaching children, the curiosity and jubilant excitement children bring into the classroom at an early age, and their ability to overcome their insecurities when they are in the hands of an adoring and hard-working teacher.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 15, 2007
    ISBN9781400175468
    Letters to a Young Teacher
    Author

    Jonathan Kozol

    Jonathon Kozol has been awarded the National Book Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. His previous books include Amazing Grace and Savage Inequalities. He lives in Byfield, Massachusetts.

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    • 1/5
      My appetite for the writing of Jonathan Kozol has been insatiable since my reading of Rachel and Her Children. I could not have been more disappointed in this book.
    • 5/5
      Brilliant. Kozol nails everything wrong with education as it stands today. But he isn't doom and gloom - he emphasizes fixes for the problems. Fixes that most competent teachers are aware of. Unfortunately, it's the INCOMPETENT teachers that usually progress to administration or politics.