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Loading... No Child Left Behind? The True Story of a Teacher's Questby Elizabeth Blake
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From shootings, gangs, drugs, teen pregnancies, and even some administrators, a science teacher at an inner city high school describes the challenges she faced as she tried to reach her at-risk students. She believes giving teachers and students the help they need, not more tests, is they only way to truly begin to leave no child behind. No library descriptions found. |
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The book may be in need, here and there, of a good editor's attention - it's a little rough around the edges in places - but what it lacks in polished writing is made up for in the content of her absorbing story. I constantly wanted to know what happened next.
I feel I should also point out that those who don't share Elizabeth's belief that a god (she spells it with a capital G) has a plan for every individual, might find her assertions in that area a little off-putting. But whatever a person's beliefs may be, there is no denying that Elizabeth's helped her not only deal with some very difficult situations at the time, but also enabled her to find a way to continue doing her utmost to ensure that no child she taught was left behind, even though, despite having sometimes gone an extra five miles, let alone one, she was not always successful.
Whatever else you may get from reading her book, Elizabeth's personal story shows that there is hope for humanity. ( )