The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle
Dan Brown
288 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 1559708352
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Language: English
Publish: 1187593200000
Traces the author’s turbulent first year working as a teacher of disadvantaged students in the Bronx, describing his difficulties with such challenges as unruly students, absent parents, and a failing administration, obstacles that placed his career choice in question and revealed formidable flaws in the educational system.