Work Hard. Be Nice.
How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America

My rating has to do with the writing, not the KIPP idea, although I will address that later. Mathews was all over the place, & there were chapters stuck in places that made no sense. He starts the book in the middle of Feinberg's class in 1995. Jump back to 1992, when Feinberg & Levin first met. No......more

Work Hard.Be Nice is an account of the founding of the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP), a nationwide network of charter schools that was first founded in Houston, and first expanded in the Bronx, New York. The author, Washington Post education writer Jay Mathews, has written a largely supportive a......more

this book was absolutely amazing. Seeing as how i am a kipp student and i know how the system works this book was a top notch book. I personally have met Mr.Feinberg and Mr. Levin and the story of how they got started is awesome. what they are doing makes so much of a difference and shows how Americ......more

Najdlhšie rozčítanú knihu v mojom "currently reading" zozname som konečne dočítal. Trvalo mi to len niečo cez 7 rokov. V roku 2015 som na ňu ešte nebol pripravený. Veľmi inšpiratívny príbeh o dvoch chlapíkoch, ktorí vďaka buldočej povahe nájdu spôsob, ako vzdelávať deti z prostredia silnej generačne......more

I always love to read about schools where kids do well. This is one such story. It’s the story of the KIPP program that began in Houston in 1995, started by two committed Teach for America teachers. Here’s a brutal fact: If poor children are going to learn at the same rate as affluent children, they......more