
Hope Against Hope
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Aidan is a fresh-faced Harvard grad drawn to New Orleans by the possibility of bringing change to a flood-ravaged city. He teaches at an ambitious charter school with a group of newcomers determined to show the world they can use science, data, and hard work to build a model school. ?
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Mary Laurie is a veteran educator who becomes principal of one of the first public high schools to reopen after Katrina. Laurie and her staff find they must fight each day not only to educate the city's teenagers, but to keep the Walker community safe and whole. ?
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In this powerful narrative non-fiction debut, the lives of these three characters provide readers with a vivid and sobering portrait of education in twenty-first-century America. Hope Against Hope works in the same tradition as Random Family and There Are No Children Here to capture the challenges of growing up and learning in a troubled world.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Map
- Author's Note
- Prologue (March 2010)
- Part I: "The Christmas of school days." (August 2010)
- The Family
- The Teacher
- The Principal
- Part II: Rebirth (Summer 2005-Summer 2010)
- The Family "Don't be like me. Be a little better."
- The Teacher "Teaching is a series of things you do in response to the data you get."
- The Principal "We are going to get this thing called education right."
- Part III: High Hopes (Summer/Fall 2010)
- The Teacher "A broken window means a broken path to college."
- The Family "We don't desire because we don't know what we are missing."
- The Principal "Our efforts should be spent on creating a school that's worth fighting for."
- Part IV: Trouble (Fall/Winter 2010)
- The Teacher "I want to go to a normal school."
- The Family "KIPP be trying to change us."
- The Principal "I thought all the stories would be good stories."
- Part V: Higher Education (Winter 2011)
- The Teacher "This is the way, hey! We start the day, hey! We get the knowledge, hey! To go to college!"
- The Principal "You want to go to college, baby?"
- The Family "Money makes money."
- Part VI: Translations (Spring 2011)
- The Principal "In every child I see my children."
- The Teacher "Is it that our kids are able to see through some things their teachers blindly follow?"
- The Family "They say they love us already, but they don't really know us."
- Epilogue (July 2012)
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Selected Bibliography
- A Note on the Author
- eCopyright
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