No Child Left Alive - Softcover

Turner, Randy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1490388036 ISBN 13: 9781490388038

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

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If the shooter doesn't get them, the system will. That proved to be the case for author Randy Turner, as the veteran teacher was fired from his teaching job in Joplin, Missouri, for writing this book. No Child Left Alive tells the story of one year at dysfunctional Franklin Heights High School, where the teachers battle administrators seeking to pad their resumes at the expense of the students' education and find themselves at the mercy of a criminal element that has been lured back into the school in a misguided effort to increase graduation rates. At the center of the storm is Assistant Superintendent Abigail Saucier, who after being passed over for the top job after the death of the former superintendent (and Abigail's lover) is determined to make Franklin Heights a model of innovation through a series of new programs that confound and frustrate the faculty. Abigail also has to deal with a deadbeat husband, a promiscuous daughter, and a growing attraction to her daughter's boyfriend, drug-dealing gang leader Rico Salazar. Opposing Abigail's plans to remake education at Franklin Heights is Teacher of the Year Walter Tollivar, who has his own problems- a crippling case of claustrophobia, and an attraction to a younger teacher, who five years earlier had been one of his students, and who is now so afraid of her own students that she has begun carrying a gun. As the teachers battle to hold on to their sanity, a bullied student plans a revenge designed to make everyone forget Columbine. No Child Left Alive is a satirical, yet frightening, view of education in Obama's America- a wasteland where test scores and statistics are everything, and teachers are cannon fodder for glory-hungry administrators and clueless politicians.

Biografía del autor:

Randy Turner is a veteran English teacher and spent two decades as a reporter/editor for various newspapers, winning more than 100 awards, including 30 for investigative reporting. He writes about educational issues and politics for the Huffington Post and Daily Kos. No Child Left Alive is his third novel, following Small Town News and Devil's Messenger. Turner has also written six non-fiction books, including three: 5:41: Stories from the Joplin Tornado, Spirit of Hope: The Year After the Joplin Tornado, and Scars from the Tornado: One Year at Joplin East Middle School, about the May 22, 2011, natural disaster that destroyed one-third of Joplin and killed 161 people. Turner's other non-fiction books are The Turner Report, Newspaper Days, and Let Teachers Teach. Turner is the author of the popular Missouri blog, The Turner Report.

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1490388036
• ISBN 13: 9781490388038
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 186