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Title: Lessons of Hope

Subtitle: How to Fix Our Schools

Author: Joel Klein

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-15

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In 2002, New York City's newly elected mayor Michael Bloomberg made a historic announcement: His administration had won control of the city's school system in a first step toward reversing its precipitous decline. In a controversial move, he appointed Joel Klein, an accomplished lawyer from outside the education establishment, to lead this ambitious campaign. Lessons of Hope is Klein's inside account of his eight-year mission of improvement: demanding accountability, eliminating political favoritism, and battling a powerful teachers union that seemed determined to protect a status quo that didn't work for kids. Klein's initiatives resulted in more school choice, higher graduation rates, and improved test scores. The New York City model is now seen as a national standard for meaningful school reform. But the journey was not easy. Klein faced resistance and conflict at every turn.

Critic Reviews:

"Klein presents an honest rundown of the challenges he faced and is very forthright in his portrayals of everyone involved in the process." (Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

More about Klein than the work

Good read just more about author than the work! It did give great insight about school reform and the challenges.