Letters to a Young Teacher - on playaway Author:Jonathan Kozol Playaway is the easiest way to listen to a book on the go. An all-in-one format, the player and content are combined in one 2 ounce unit and it comes with everything you need to start listening immediately. No separate player needed, no CDs, no downloads just press play! — "In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first-grade teacher at an ... more »inner-city school in Boston, educator Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca's likably irreverent questioning, he also reveals his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools.
Letters to a Young Teacher reignites a number of the controversial issues Jonathan has powerfully addressed in recent years: the mania of high-stakes testing that turns many classrooms into test-prep factories, the invasion of our public schools by predatory private corporations, and the inequalities of urban schools that are once again almost as segregated as they were a century ago.
Most of all, these letters are rich with the happiness of teaching children, the curiosity and jubilant excitement children bring into the classroom at an early age, and their ability to overcome their insecurities when they are in the hands of an adoring and hard-working teacher.
Jonathan Kozol is the author of Death at an Early Age, The Shame of the Nation, and Savage Inequalities. He has been working with children in inner-city schools for more than forty years.
David Drummond has made his living as an actor for over twenty years, primarily in voice-overs. He won an AudioFile Earphones Award for his first audiobook, Love 'Em or Lose 'Em, by Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans, and has also narrated Conquering Gotham by Jill Jonnes."« less