Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America

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When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for The us right after college and found themselves utter failures in the study room, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that-and more. In their early twenties, by sheer force of talent and determination never to take no for an answer, they created a wildly successful fifth-grade experience that would grow into the Knowledge Is Power Program (Kipp), which lately includes sixty-six schools in nineteen states and the District of Columbia. Kipp schools incorporate what Feinberg and Levin learned from The us’s best, most charismatic teachers: lessons wish to be full of life; school days wish to be longer (the Kipp day is nine and a half hours); the completion of homework needs to be sacrosanct (Kipp teachers are to be had by telephone day and night). Chants, songs, and slogans such as “Work hard, be nice” energize this system. Illuminating the americaand downs of the Kipp founders and their students, Mathews gives us something rather rare: a hopeful book about education.

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