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The Kids Don't Stand a Chance

Growing Up in Teach for America

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The Kids Don't Stand a Chance

By: Harris Sockel
Narrated by: Jacob York
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As a 22-year-old teacher with Teach For America - a program that puts college grads in front of the country's poorest children - Harris Sockel grew up in the same room as his students. From spending exorbitant amounts of money on neon-colored card stock to watching parents pull their kids from his class because he looked too young to teach, he saw the baffling, bleak, and very human side of the way we approach poverty in school. The Kids Don't Stand a Chance is an honest story about class, premature adulthood, and pretending to know the right answers.

©2015 Harris Sockel (P)2016 Audible, Inc. Biographies & Memoirs
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You felt as if you were right alongside the teacher... kept me captivated. If only we could truly solve the education disparity.

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Great book about teaching Job and how hard to find information and inspiration to keep going

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