Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780060920876)

Small Victories is Samuel Freedman's remarkable story of life on the front lines in the sort of high school that seems like a disaster with walls--old, urban, overcrowded, and overwhelmingly minority. Seaward Park High School, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, has been ranked among the worst 10 percent of high schools in the state--yet 92 percent of its graduates go on to higher education. The reason is dedicated teachers, one of whom, English instructor Jessica Siegel, is the subject of Freedman's unforgettably dramatic humanization of the education crisis. Following Siegel through the 1987-88 academic year, Freedman not only saw a master at work but learned from the inside just how a school functions against impossible odds. Small Victories alternates Jessica's experiences with those of others at Seaward Park, and as we cone to know intimately a number of the astonishing students and staff, Small Victories reveals itself as a book that has the power to change the way we see our world.

Author: Samuel G. Freedman
ISBN-10: 0060920874
ISBN-13: 9780060920876
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: English
Published: 05/23/1991
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.33w x 1.11d
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/12/1991