Among Schoolchildren
by:
Tracy Kidder (author)
Tracy Kidder -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of a New Machine and the extraordinary national bestseller House -- spent nine months in Mrs. Zajac's fifth-grade classroom in the depressed "Flats" of Holyoke, Massachusetts. For an entire year he lived among twenty schoolchildren and...
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Tracy Kidder -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of a New Machine and the extraordinary national bestseller House -- spent nine months in Mrs. Zajac's fifth-grade classroom in the depressed "Flats" of Holyoke, Massachusetts. For an entire year he lived among twenty schoolchildren and their indomitable, compassionate teacher -- sharings their joys, their catastrophes, and their small but essential triumphs. As a result, he has written a revealing, remarkably poignant account of education in America . . . and his most memorable, emotionally charged, and important book to date.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780380710898 (0380710897)
ASIN: 380710897
Publish date: September 1st 1990
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Academic,
School,
Journalism,
Teaching,
Education,
College,
Sociology
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 ...
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