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Description
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... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary.”
First Sentence
It's dangerous to think too much about public education.
Table of Contents
Prologue: The Boxer
1. Curtains
2. Who Are You?
3. Johnny Can't Read
4. I Won't Back Down
5. Running on Empty
6. The Heart of the Matter
7. On the Road to Find Out
8. A One-Story Town
9. A Touch of Gray
10. When Numbers Get Serious
11. One
12. Get Back in Line
13. Life on the Road
14. Heroes and Villains
Epilogue: I'm Still Standing
Authors & Contributors
- Rafe Esquith (Author)
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