What Educators Can Learn from Chris Zajac: Observations on "Among Schoolchildren.".

Horton, Lowell

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What Educators Can Learn from Chris Zajac: Observations on "Among Schoolchildren."

Horton, Lowell

Educational Leadership, v47 n8 p82-83 May 1990

Reviews Tracy Kidder's latest bestseller, an engaging account of the daily experiences of one fifth grade teacher and her students in a deteriorating neighborhood in a rustbelt community. Teacher Chris Zajac is a pragmatist with little time for esoteric learning theory. Although Chris is warm, caring, and skillful, her school is not meeting students' needs. (MLH)

Descriptors: Book Reviews, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Grade 5, Instructional Improvement, Teacher Characteristics

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