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Title: Choosing Excellence: "Good Enough" Schools Are Not Good Enough by John Merrow, Jonathan Kozol ISBN: 1-57886-014-8 Publisher: Scarecrown Pr (Trade) Pub. Date: April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read for anyone who cares about our future
Comment: This book is entertaining and remarkably thoughtful. It is filled with the wisdom and insights we have come to expect from John Merrow, whose work many of us have followed on NPR and PBS. If you care about our future, read this book. He is critical where criticism is warranted but every chapter contains many useful suggestions for improvement. Every chapter includes the questions we need to ask of our educators and of ourselves.
Rating: 5
Summary: Funny, practical and wise
Comment: This is an immensely useful, irreverent look at public schools. The author is a former teacher and an award-winning journalist who has worked for National Public Radio and PBS. He is creative and extremely insightful. He says, don't use just one way to judge schools. Do most teachers leave right after the students? What do schools do if there is a bully? Is the school orderly without being rigid? Is excellent student work displayed? Is it creative, or does it all look alike? These are only a few of the excellent, unusual questions Merrow asks.
He also urges families not to make assumptions about a school - whether it's a charter, magnet or neighborhood school - it's location and classification just don't tell you enough.
This is a great book for families to read, even if they are not actively selecting a new school. Merrow describes wonderful - and awful things he's seen in schools all over the world. He is funny, creative,and immensely useful.
Joe N - St. Paul, Minnesota
Rating: 1
Summary: Choosing Excellence : 'Good Enough' Schools Are Not Good Eno
Comment: Note: I was forced to give at least one star, this is Amazon's choice, not mine. I read the previous customer reviews and am wondering if perhaps Amazon sent me the wrong book. The comments were quite generous, too generous. And in fact, had they not been so glowing I would have not spent the money for this book. Mr. Merrow has stated the obvious and hopes the reader doesn't notice. This reader noticed. With Mr. Merrow's vitae I would have expected better, but I do believe he is in his decling years as an effective journalist (oxymoron?). The book is weak and I wish to have my money back. Don't waste your time, look at the free sample here on Amazon and you'll see all you need to know. Perhaps this explains why Mr. Merrow can no longer be found on PBS?
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Title: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol ISBN: 0060974990 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 03 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope by Jonathan Kozol ISBN: 0060956453 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 20 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Amazing Grace : Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, The by Jonathan Kozol ISBN: 0060976977 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 06 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Choosing the Right School for Your Child by Brandi Roth, Fay Van Der Kar-Levinson ISBN: 0964711907 Publisher: Association of Ideas Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools by Jonathan Kozol ISBN: 0452262925 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: June, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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