Among Schoolchildren
Among Schoolchildren spent nine months following Mrs. Zajac's fifth-grade classroom in a depressed area of Holyoke, Massachusetts. Mrs. Zajac is feisty, funny, and tough. She likes to call herself an "old-lady teacher." (She is thirty-four.) Around Kelly School, she is infamous for her discipline: "She is mean, bro," says one of her students. But children love her. Living among the twenty schoolchildren and their indomitable teacher, Tracy Kidder shared their joys, catastrophes, and small but essential triumphs. His resulting account is a revelatory and remarkably poignant examination of an inner-city school and a close-up look at what is wrong—and right—with education in America.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- HMH
- Year
- 1989
- ISBN-13
- 9780547524061
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Topics
- Education in AmericaElementary school teachingInner-city schools
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1989)
Other awarded books from Tracy Kidder
- The Soul of a New Machine
- House
- Strength in What Remains
- Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
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