Weblogger’s Book Tour Comes to Milwaukee
Former columnist and long-time weblogger Joanne Jacobs’ book Our School is out in paperback. She’ll be promoting it in Milwaukee later this month. On Friday, March 23 Joanne will be speaking at Marquette’s Soup and Substance lunch at noon at Alumni Memorial Union, 1442 W. Wisconsin Ave., in room 163. The lunch is open to the public. She’ll also do a reading at Schwartz Bookshop, 2262 S. Kinnickinnic Ave at 7 pm. I won’t be able to make the lunch but I’ll gun for the evening reading.
Here’s a little about Our School from Jacobs’ website:
Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea and the Charter School That Beat the Odds (Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 29, 2005) tells the saga of a San Jose charter high school that prepares underachievers — most from Mexican immigrant families — to succeed at four-year colleges. Buy the book in hardcover or paperback.
Downtown College Prep teachers don’t tell D and F students they’re wonderful. They tell them they’re capable of improving. And they are: The school now boasts one of the highest pass rates in San Jose on the state graduation exam. All graduates go on to college.
Self-proclaimed “grumpy optimists” Greg Lippman and Jennifer Andaluz recruited students who were “failing, but not in jail,” and promised them a chance to go to college.
[...] By the way, thanks to Sean Hackbarth for mentioning the visit on The American Mind. [...]