Among Schoolchildren
by:
Tracy Kidder (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781417709878 (1417709871)
Publish date: September 1st 1990
Publisher: Turtleback Books
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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