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Teacher - Two Years in the Mississippi Delta (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,483
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Teacher - Two Years in the Mississippi Delta (Hardcover): Michael Copperman

Teacher - Two Years in the Mississippi Delta (Hardcover)

Michael Copperman

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When Michael Copperman left Stanford University for the Mississippi Delta in 2002, he imagined he would lift underprivileged children from the narrow horizons of rural poverty. Well-meaning but naive, the Asian American from the West Coast soon lost his bearings in a world divided between black and white. He had no idea how to manage a classroom or help children navigate the considerable challenges they faced. In trying to help students, he often found he couldn't afford to give what they required - sometimes, with heartbreaking consequences. His desperate efforts to save child after child were misguided but sincere. He offered children the best invitations to success he could manage. But he still felt like an outsider who was failing the children and himself. Teach For America has for a decade been the nation's largest employer of recent college graduates but has come under increasing criticism in recent years even as it has grown exponentially. This memoir considers the distance between the idealism of the organization's creed that ""One day, all children will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education"" and what it actually means to teach in America's poorest and most troubled public schools. Copperman's memoir vividly captures his disorientation in the divided world of the Delta, even as the author marvels at the wit and resilience of the children in his classroom. To them, he is at once an authority figure and a stranger minority than even they are - a lone Asian, an outsider among outsiders. His journey is of great relevance to teachers, administrators, and parents longing for quality education in America. His frank story shows that the solutions for impoverished schools are far from simple.

General

Imprint: University Press Of Mississippi
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2016
Authors: Michael Copperman
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-0585-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching skills & techniques
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment
Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General
Books > Biography > General
LSN: 1-4968-0585-2
Barcode: 9781496805850

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