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Author Carr, Sarah, author.

Title Hope against hope : three schools, one city, and the struggle to educate America's children / Sarah Carr.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2014.
©2013

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  371.93 C312H    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 316 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-306) and index.
Contents 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 said they love us already, but they don't really know us."
Subject Children with social disabilities -- Education -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
Charter schools -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
Educational change -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
Charter schools. (OCoLC)fst00852525
Children with social disabilities -- Education. (OCoLC)fst00855659
Educational change. (OCoLC)fst00903371
Louisiana -- New Orleans. (OCoLC)fst01204311
Genre/Form Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
ISBN 9781608195138
1608195139
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