There Are No Shortcuts by Rafe Esquith

There Are No Shortcuts by Rafe Esquith

Year after year, Rafe Esquith's fifth-grade students excel. They read passionately, far above their grade level; tackle algebra; and stage Shakespeare so professionally that they often wow the great Shakespearen actor himself, Sir Ian McKellen. Yet Esquith teaches at an L.A. innercity school known as the Jungle, where few of his students speak English at home, and many are from poor or troubled families. What's his winning recipe? A diet of intensive learning mixed with a lot of kindness and fun. His kids attend class from 6:30 A.M. until well after 4:00 P.M., right through most of their vacations. They take field trips to Europe and Yosemite. They play rock and roll. Mediocrity has no place in their classroom. And the results follow them for life, as they go on to colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford.
Possessed by a fierce idealism, Esquith works even harder than his students. As an outspoken maverick of public education (his heroes include Huck Finn and Atticus Finch), he admits to significant mistakes and heated fights with administrators and colleagues. We all--teachers, parents, citizens--have much to learn from his candor and uncompromising vision.

For the past twenty-eight years, Rafe Esquith has been a teacher at Hobart Elementary School in Los Angeles. He is the only classroom teacher to receive the National Medal of Arts from the president. The American Teacher Award and People magazine's Heroes Among Us Award are among his many other distinctions and awards. He currently resides in Los Angeles.

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ISBN 13	9780375422027
ISBN 10	0375422021
Title	There Are No Shortcuts
Author	Rafe Esquith
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pantheon Books
Year published	2003-04-22
Number of pages	210
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