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Letters to a Young Teacher
by Jonathan Kozol
Kozol writes to a first-year teacher about joy, testing, poverty, and keeping heart in the classroom. Tender and political.
Read it if…
you teach and are losing heart.
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Skip it if…
you want classroom technique.
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Three things you will actually use
- Keep joy in the room.
- Children before metrics.
- Stay.
Do this first
Read the first letter.
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Kozol's letters.
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