| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
ix, 316 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-306) and index. |
| Contents |
"The Christmas of school days" (August 2010) -- Rebirth (Summer 2005 - Summer 2010) -- High Hopes (Summer/Fall 2010) -- Trouble (Fall/Winter 2010) -- Higher Education (Winter 2010) -- Translations (Spring 2011). |
| Summary |
"Geraldlynn is a lively, astute 14-year-old. Her family, displaced by Hurricane Katrina, returns home to find a radically altered public education system. Geraldlynns parents hope their daughter's new school will prepare her college-but the teenager has ideals and ambitions of her own. 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. 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. 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Children with social disabilities -- Education -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
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Charter schools -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
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Educational change -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
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| ISBN |
9781608194902 hardback |
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1608194906 hardback |
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