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Mission High - One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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Mission High - One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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This book is a godsend , a moving portrait for anyone wanting to go
beyond the simplified labels and metrics and really understand an
urban high school, and its highly individual, resilient, eager and
brilliant students and educators." ,Dave Eggers, co-founder, 826
National and ScholarMatchDarrell is a reflective, brilliant young
man, who never thought of himself as a good student. He always
struggled with his reading and writing skills. Darrell's father, a
single parent, couldn't afford private tutors. By the end of middle
school, Darrell's grades and his confidence were at an all time
low. Then everything changed.When education journalist Kristina
Rizga first met Darrell at Mission High School, he was taking AP
calculus class, writing a ten-page research paper, and had received
several college acceptance letters. And Darrell was not an
exception. More than 80 percent of Mission High seniors go to
college every year, even though the school teaches large numbers of
English learners and students from poor families.So, why has the
federal government been threatening to close Mission High,and
schools like it across the country?The United States has been on a
century long road toward increased standardization in our public
schools, which resulted in a system that reduces the quality of
education to primarily one metric: standardized test scores.
According to this number, Mission High is a low-performing" school
even though its college enrollment, graduation, attendance rates
and student surveys are some of the best in the country.The
qualities that matter the most in learning,skills like critical
thinking, intellectual engagement, resilience, empathy,
self-management, and cultural flexibility,can't be measured by
multiple-choice questions designed by distant testing companies,
Rizga argues, but they can be detected by skilled teachers in
effective, personalized and humane classrooms that work for all
students, not just the most motivated ones.Based on four years of
reporting with unprecedented access, the unforgettable, intimate
stories in these pages throw open the doors to America's most
talked about,and arguably least understood,public school classrooms
where the largely invisible voices of our smart, resilient students
and their committed educators can offer a clear and hopeful
blueprint for what it takes to help all students succeed.
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