Lessons of Hope, Joel Klein
Lessons of Hope, Joel Klein
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Lessons of Hope
How to Fix Our Schools

Author: Joel Klein

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/06/2015

Synopsis

In 2002, New York City's newly elected mayor, Michael Bloomberg, made a historic announcement: his administration had won control of the city's school system in a first step toward reversing its precipitous decline. In a controversial move, he appointed Joel Klein, an accomplished lawyer from outside the education establishment, to lead this ambitious campaign.

Lessons of Hope is Klein's inside account of his eight-year mission of improvement: demanding accountability, eliminating political favoritism, and battling a powerful teachers union that seemed determined to protect a status quo that didn't work for kids. Klein's initiatives resulted in more school choice, higher graduation rates, and improved test scores. The New York City model is now seen as a national standard for meaningful school reform. But the journey was not easy. Klein faced resistance and conflict at every turn.

About Joel Klein

Joel Klein served as chancellor of the New York City Department of Education from 2002 to 2011. Earlier in his career, he served as U.S. assistant attorney general in charge of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, deputy White House counsel during the Clinton administration, and CEO of the U.S. arm of Bertelsmann. He currently serves as executive vice president at News Corporation and CEO of its education division, Amplify. Joel lives in New York City with his wife, Nicole Seligman.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heidi on August 05, 2017

The first part of this book didn't mesmerize me, because I had already learned a lot of the information by reading "Class Warfare". But when Joel Klein gets to the techniques they used and the changes they made, I was riveted. Practically every page was turned down to bookmark some paragraph I had r......more

Goodreads review by Marc on November 14, 2015

While I appreciated this inside look into the NYC school reform movement, I couldn't get over Klein's self-serving prose and defensive missives. For every admission he made of wrongdoing or imperfection as chancellor, there seemed like 4 potshots at his detractors and/or extended quotes from his pro......more

Goodreads review by Meiroz on August 25, 2015

Not being a New Yorker, nor an American, I can appreciate this book from a public management point of view. And I have to say that I had never read anything like this before. It is a first person account of what it is like to reform an educational system, from a practioner's point of view. Yes, some......more

Goodreads review by Katie on May 22, 2018

Informative and interesting read about the public school reform in NYC......more

Goodreads review by Darian on May 09, 2015

More about Klein than reform but powerful none the less. Unfortunately the forces in ed reform do not understand the devastating affects of poverty and the systems in education that perpeptuate inequities based on race, Klein like most can speak on it from a theoretical perspective but struggle to a......more

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