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Rundown, vermin-infested buildings. Rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems. Children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but also come to thrive? It can happen, and As Bad as They Say? tells the heroic stories of Janet Mayer’s students during her 33-year tenure as a Bronx high school teacher.

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"... A powerful book, precisely because it is rooted in the long classroom experience of a teach who worked beyond the boundaries of just her classroom or even her school." -Education Review "If you are thinking of teaching or are in teaching and need a book to inspire you, this is the one to read." -- -Elizabeth Willoughby University Press Books

As Bad as They Say

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    A Paperback / softback by Janet Grossbach Mayer

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 13/04/2011
      ISBN13: 9780823234172, 978-0823234172
      ISBN10: 0823234177

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Rundown, vermin-infested buildings. Rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems. Children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but also come to thrive? It can happen, and As Bad as They Say? tells the heroic stories of Janet Mayer’s students during her 33-year tenure as a Bronx high school teacher.

      Trade Review
      "... A powerful book, precisely because it is rooted in the long classroom experience of a teach who worked beyond the boundaries of just her classroom or even her school." -Education Review "If you are thinking of teaching or are in teaching and need a book to inspire you, this is the one to read." -- -Elizabeth Willoughby University Press Books

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