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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Carr, Sarah.     Subjects     Children with social disabilities -- Education -- United States.     Charter schools -- Louisiana -- Case studies.     Educational change -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.     Education, Secondary -- United States -- Case studies.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Carr, Sarah.       by title:      Hope against hope : ...       by call number:      371.93 C312h     Search the Web     Carr, Sarah.     Children with social disabilities -- Education -- United States.     Charter schools -- Louisiana -- Case studies.     Educational change -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.     Education, Secondary -- United States -- Case studies.       MARC Display

Hope against hope : three schools, one city, and the struggle to educate America's children / Sarah Carr. by Carr, Sarah. Bloomsbury Press, 2013. Call #: 371.93 C312h Subjects Children with social disabilities -- Education -- United States.   Charter schools -- Louisiana -- Case studies.   Educational change -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.   Education, Secondary -- United States -- Case studies. ISBN:  9781608194902 (hc.) 1608194906 (hc.) Edition:  1st U.S. ed. Description:  ix, 316 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "Geraldlynn is a lively, astute 14-year-old. Her family, displaced by Hurricane Katrina, returns home to find a radically altered public education system. Geraldlynn's parents hope their daughter's new school will prepare her for college -- but the teenager has ideals and ambitions of her own. Aidan is a fresh-faced Harvard grad drawn to New Orleans by the possibility of bringing change to a flood-ravaged city. He teaches at an ambitious charter school with a group of newcomers determined to show the world they can use science, data, and hard work to build a model school. Mary Laurie is a veteran educator who becomes principal of one of the first public high schools to reopen after Katrina. Laurie and her staff find they must fight each day not only to educate the city's teenagers, but to keep the Walker community safe and whole. In this powerful narrative non-fiction debut, the lives of these three characters provide readers with a vivid and sobering portrait of education in twenty-first-century America. Hope Against Hope works in the same tradition as Random Family and There Are No Children Here to capture the challenges of growing up and learning in a troubled world"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 371.93 C312h Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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