Russakoff, Dale, author.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The pact — Seduction in Sun Valley — The view from Avon Avenue — Engaging the community — The rise of the anti-Booker candidacy — Searching for Newark’s superman — Hi, I’m Cami — District school, charter school — Transformational change meets the political sausage factory — Alif rising — The leading men move on — One Newark, whose Newark? — No excuses — Appendix I. Where the $200 million went — Appendix II. Newark schools by the numbers.
- Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker were ready to reform our failing schools. They got an education. When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools — and to solve the education crisis in every city in America — it looked like a huge win for then-mayor Cory Booker and governor Chris Christie. But their plans soon ran into a constituency not so easily moved — Newark’s key education players, fiercely protective of their billion-dollar-per-annum system. It’s a prize that, for generations, has enriched seemingly everyone, except Newark’s students. Expert journalist Dale Russakoff delivers a story of high ideals and hubris, good intentions and greed, celebrity and street smarts — as reformers face off against entrenched unions, skeptical parents, and bewildered students. The growth of charters forces the hand of Newark’s superintendent Cami Anderson, who closes, consolidates, or redesigns more than a third of the city’s schools — a scenario on the horizon for many urban districts across America. Most moving are Russakoff’s portraits from inside the district’s schools, of home-grown principals and teachers, long stuck in a hopeless system — and often the only real hope for the children of Newark. The Prize is a portrait of a titanic struggle over the future of education for the poorest kids, and a cautionary tale for those who care about the shape of America’s schools. — Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
- Educational change — New Jersey — Newark.
- Public schools — New Jersey — Newark.
- Education — Political aspects — New Jersey — Newark.
- Education and state — New Jersey.
- Zuckerberg, Mark, 1984-
- Booker, Cory.
- Christie, Chris.
Requested by Kurpiers, R.