How the Other Half Learns Pdf

ISBN: B07WHV2GTD
Title: How the Other Half Learns Pdf Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice

An inside look at America's most controversial charter schools, and the moral and political questions around public education and school choice.

The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America. In How the Other Half Learns, teacher and education journalist Robert Pondiscio focuses on Success Academy, the network of controversial charter schools in New York City founded by Eva Moskowitz, who has created something unprecedented in American education: a way for large numbers of engaged and ambitious low-income families of color to get an education for their children that equals and even exceeds what wealthy families take for granted. Her results are astonishing, her methods unorthodox.

Decades of well-intended efforts to improve our schools and close the "achievement gap" have set equity and excellence at war with each other: If you are wealthy, with the means to pay private school tuition or move to an affluent community, you can get your child into an excellent school. But if you are poor and black or brown, you have to settle for "equity" and a lecture - about fairness. About the need to be patient. And about how school choice for you only damages public schools for everyone else. Thousands of parents have chosen Success Academy, and thousands more sit on waiting lists to get in. But Moskowitz herself admits Success Academy "is not for everyone," and this raises uncomfortable questions we'd rather not ask, let alone answer: What if the price of giving a first-rate education to children least likely to receive it means acknowledging that you can't do it for everyone? What if some problems are just too hard for schools alone to solve?

A Page-Turning Look at a Unique Subject — Reads Like a Novel How the Other Half Learns is a fascinating, insightful, and emotional read. Robert Pondiscio has beautifully paired his deep knowledge of education policy with his background as a reporter to write a page-turning, thought-provoking book about something we rarely hear about: what actually happens inside a school all day. And it’s a one-of-a-kind read!I have no doubt that a lot of the reviews of this book will morph into reviews of the Success Academies model, and whether readers like it or hate it. But regardless of where you stand, Pondiscio’s remarkable reporting and story-telling abilities deserve great credit. You’ll read this book and feel like you know the teachers, administrators, parents, and kids (scholars!) that he trailed for a year. You are rooting for them to succeed! You are wincing when they encounter obstacles. And you find yourself rethinking your own biases and school experiences, too.As for the schools themselves, after reading this book, I take issue with the media’s characterization of Success Academies as “controversial,” and that’s not because I agree with everything these schools do. How is a school network that has parents lined up to get their children accepted, by lottery, somehow more “controversial” than the nearby schools that parents desperately do NOT want their children to attend?A compelling portrait of one of the most successful initiatives in American education An illuminating addition to the ongoing argument about how to address America’s distressed educational system. How the Other Half Learns is purposefully light on theory, philosophy and systems making it accessible and engaging for the lay reader – ordinary Americans who have a personal but not professional concern about state of the country’s K-through-12 education system. For this book, the author was granted access to one of the most successful, and therefore, controversial charter school systems in the country – the New York, New Jersey region’s Success Academy. The result is a close-up look at the day-to-day-to day-to-day-to-day, incessant pace of life inside an academic system that, since its founding, has defied all norms of student achievement. Pondiscio is careful to keep himself out of the way both in his role as an observer and as the writer. The narrative is structured to allow the administrators, teachers, parents and, by far not the least, the young scholars (as they are consistently referred to at the Academy) whose futures are being shaped by this experiment, tell the story. In the end, Pondiscio makes a compelling case for charter schools being one of the best options we have for making the promise of equality in education a reality. Regardless of where you stand on the debate over charter schools – a blood-sucking leech on public education resources or a lifeline to black and brown children in under-served communities, it is hard to read this book and not have your settled opinion shaken more than a little bit.A milestone in American education! This brilliant book marks an important milestone in our educational history. It shows that, starting in earliest grades, a culture of attention to the task, a strong shared-knowledge curriculum, supplemented by persistent support at home will give disadvantaged children an equal chance to fulfill the American dream. Our idea of giving each child an equal chance in life through first-rate early education is NOT a myth after all! The myth has been the counter claim that it’s impossible. That myth was caused by the further myth that early schooling should follow “nature” rather than what empirical science says about human learning: namely that a culture of attention, ample time-on-task, with tasks that are intelligently-conceived, will do the trick! Culture not nature turns out to e is the true goddess of early education!

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