by Tracy Kidder, Ruth Bloomquist, Stephen Yankee
Another good teaching book. I like that it shows that even a great teacher can't reach every student. It's been a while since I read it, so I don't have anything else to say. I did enjoy it, though; I can tell you that.
Maybe I wanted more Studs Terkel and less Tracy Kidder in the interviews. Maybe it wasn't this book at all.
The fictional story of a principled and passionate teacher trying to educate impoverished grade schoolers.
Tracy Kidder is a very good writer, so I decided to go back and read some of his older stuff that I had missed. I loved The Soul of a New Machine, particularly because at the time it came out I was working as a programmer on (among other things) a Data General MV6000. This, of course, was back in ...