The Education of Eva Moskowitz - A Memoir

From Eva Moskowitz, the outspoken founder and CEO of the charter school Success Academy, comes a frank, feisty memoir about the rough-and-tumble battles to reform America's education system. Eva Moskowitz is a fighter with a reputation for having "sharp elbows"-- if that's a synonym for getting the job done, she'll take it. A born and bred New Yorker, former City Councilmember, and "charter czarina," Moskowitz has taken on powerful unions and politicians to establish and grow her astonishingly effective and popular charter school program in four of the city's five boroughs. In this unabashedly candid memoir, Moskowitz tells of how she became a forward-thinking education entrepreneur and her fight to establish nearly three dozen schools--activism that has made her into one of the most polarizing figures in New York City and beyond. Now, having established a remarkable, even unprecedented, track record for guiding the city's most disadvantaged children to high academic performance, Moskowitz addresses the battles she has won and lost, writing candidly about the people who seek to undermine her work--most notably New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio--and celebrating the powerful allies who have aided her cause, including former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor Andrew Cuomo. Moskowitz's insightful memoir is a deeply felt personal story and an impassioned call to action that bluntly identifies failing policies and the alarmingly powerful forces arrayed against improving an education system that is both deeply dysfunctional and prejudiced. The Education of Eva Moskowitz is sure to galvanize supporters, enrage her opponents, generate headlines, and urgently impact the national conversation on education.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Eva Moskowitz
• Edition: Harper Collins Usa
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780062449788
• ISBN: 978-0-06-244978-8
• Pages: 400
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Correspondance, journaux intimes; Littérature spécialisée > Politique, société, économie > Biographies, autobiographies; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SCIENCE / History, Philosophy, Memoirs, social and political philosophy, History of Science, Public Administration, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, The Americas, Political science and theory, Gender studies: women and girls, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Women in Politics, SOCIOLOGY: EDUCATION, EDUCATION: ISSUES IN EDUCATION, SOCIOLOGY: SOCIAL POLICY, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Public Affairs & Administration, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, Sociology / Social Policy, Issues in Education, Sociology / Education