Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America
by Jay Mathews
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Author: Jay MathewsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-01-20
ISBN: 1565125169
Number of pages: 329
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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- ISBN13: 9781565125162
- Condition: New
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Book Review: Not A Very Accurate Description Of KIPP Schools
Summary: 1 Stars
Not to say that Jay was being intentionally dishonest, but I really don't think that he takes into consideration what is at the heart of the KIPP method. The young teachers at these schools are essentially acting like surrogate families to these students and in most cases after these students leave the KIPP schools, they return to average or below average academic performance. You can push students really hard and force them to succeed, but KIPP schools fail change the essential nature of their students. On another level, the founders of KIPP schools were less motivated to change the world and seemed far more interested and motivated to create a business empire for themselves where they could get extremely wealthy on the taxpayers dime. While all of this is happening, young teachers are being burnt out and discarded and students and families are being deceived by their slick business gimmick. Overall, I don't feel as though the book was as informative as it needed to be.
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Summary of Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America
When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that-and more. In their early twenties, by sheer force of talent and determination never to take no for an answer, they created a wildly successful fifth-grade experience that would grow into the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), which today includes sixty-six schools in nineteen states and the District of Columbia.KIPP schools incorporate what Feinberg and Levin learned from America's best, most charismatic teachers: lessons need to be lively; school days need to be longer (the KIPP day is nine and a half hours); the completion of homework has to be sacrosanct (KIPP teachers are available by telephone day and night). Chants, songs, and slogans such as "Work hard, be nice" energize the program. Illuminating the ups and downs of the KIPP founders and their students, Mathews gives us something quite rare: a hopeful book about education.
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