Hope Against Hope
Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America's Children
Bloomsbury · Print & ebook · March 25, 2014
Geraldlynn is a lively, astute 14-year-old.
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- Who it’s for
- Three lives bring the promises and pressures of post-Katrina education into vivid human focus.
- Themes
- Education reform, Post-Katrina recovery, Coming of age
- Genres
- Education Policy, Charter Schools, Southern U.S. History
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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.
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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.
Schools Under Strain
Three lives bring the promises and pressures of post-Katrina education into vivid human focus.
Come here for
- A close view of students, teachers, and school leaders
- Education reform seen through daily life in New Orleans
Expect
- Narrative nonfiction grounded in three distinct lives
- A sobering look at learning in a city reshaped by disaster
Where it sits
| Education Policy | 60% |
|---|---|
| Southern U.S. History | 36% |
| Charter Schools | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- School Safety
- Charter Schools
- Southern U.S. History
- Authors
- Sarah Carr
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Published
- March 25, 2014
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Education reform · Post-Katrina recovery · Coming of age
- Reading lane
- School Safety