Small Victories : The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School
by Samuel G. Freedman
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- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060920874
- ISBN 13
- 9780060920876
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New York: Harper Perennial, May 1991. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition Near Fine. Tanned but unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xiv + 431 pages.
Small Victories is a remarkable story of life on the front lines in the sort of high school that seems like a disaster with walls--old, urban, overcrowded, and overwhelmingly minority. Seaward Park High School, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, has been ranked among the worst 10 percent of high schools in the state--yet 92 percent of its graduates go on to higher education. The reason is dedicated teachers, one of whom, English instructor Jessica Siegel, is the subject of Freedman's unforgettably dramatic humanization of the education crisis. Following Siegel through the 1987-88 academic year, Freedman not only saw a master at work but learned from the inside just how a school functions against impossible odds. Small Victories alternates Jessica's experiences with those of others at Seaward Park, and as we cone to know intimately a number of the astonishing students and staff, Small Victories reveals itself as a book that has the power to change the way we see our world.
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- Title
- Small Victories : The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School
- Author
- Samuel G. Freedman
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0060920874
- ISBN 13
- 9780060920876
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- May 1991
- Pages
- xiv + 431
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- education, biography, teachers, minorities, race, poverty, high school, secondary, Jessica Siegel, Seward Park, New York
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- Biographies; Education and Teaching;
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