As Bad as They Say? : : Three Decades of Teaching in the Bronx /

As Bad as They Say? : : Three Decades of Teaching in the Bronx / / Janet Grossbach Mayer.

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Rundown, vermin-infested buildings. Rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems. Children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but also come to thrive? It can happen, and As Bad as They Say? tells the heroic stories of Janet Mayer’...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
VerfasserIn:
Mayer, Janet Grossbach,
MitwirkendeR:
Naison, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (194 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Nobody can make it out here alone
  • To the Reader
  • Part I: Bronx Roots
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Nobody
  • 3 It Was the Worst of Times
  • Part II: Defying Expectations
  • 4 Omara—The Orphan
  • 5 Remarkable Ramika
  • 6 Marion—A Rare Gem
  • 7 A Typical American Teenager—Dominican Republic–Style
  • 8 Tenacious Tamika
  • 9 Multiple Intelligences: A Digression
  • 10 Dolores—The Dancer
  • 11 Marisa—with Charisma
  • 12 Pedro—The Piano Player
  • 13 Bridging the Gap
  • Part III: Losing Our Way
  • 14 Deception, Dismantling, and Demise of Public Education
  • Appendixes
  • A Letter from M. Rasool
  • B Course of Study for Multicultural Literature
  • C Interest Inventory
  • Notes
  • Index

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