Alexandra Robbins
Autore di Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities
Sull'Autore
Alexandra Robbins is on the staff of The New Yorker and has written for numerous magazines and newspapers. A Yale graduate, she lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
Opere di Alexandra Robbins
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School (2011) 571 copie
Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power (2002) 329 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1976-05-23
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Istruzione
- Yale University (1998)
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 9
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 3,320
- Popolarità
- #7,707
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 106
- ISBN
- 51
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 1
Truly, this book has my heart. With my husband being a now-school librarian and a former English teacher, and having studied education, student taught, and tutored for quite some years myself, I see how teachers are consistently undermined and undervalued in their profession. This book speaks to those experiences but also shows just how dedicated most teachers are.
I love the combination of personal stories from Robbins’s correspondence to other teachers and data from studies and surveys. It provides a nice touch to show the human, emotional side of what the data represents. She goes through the school year, following three teachers in three different areas of the country. I fell in love with them and their stories. I cried when I read about the impossible situations they sometimes found themselves in.
Teaching is a tough job, made tougher by lack of administrative support and funding in many places. Robbins doesn’t shy away from the tough parts–where administration keeps painting over mold in a classroom, despite inherent health risks–where a special education teacher’s classes are overloaded with students, creating an unsafe environment. These are common situations many teachers find themselves in and often they don’t feel comfortable fighting against it because they don’t want to lose their jobs.
But Robbins also shows the rewarding part–the moment when you see a concept click with a kid–when a shy student feels safe and comfortable enough to come out of their shell–those wonderful times when a student calls you their favorite teacher and is so excited to see you and learn with you every day. It’s these moments that keep teachers going and that makes the profession so special. I love that she captured part of that.
I really loved this book for its honesty and its efforts to show a true glimpse of teaching. I think this is a great book to read for people who aren’t in the classroom every day to get a glimpse of just what is happening in education and be better informed as to what to advocate for when it comes to public education.… (altro)