How to Walk to School Download

Author: Jacqueline Edelberg
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1442200014

How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood School Renaissance

When two gutsy moms ventured inside Nettelhorst, their neighborhood's underutilized and struggling public elementary school, the new principal asked what it would take for them to enroll their children. Download How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood School Renaissance from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Stunned by her candor, they returned the next day armed with an extensive wish list. The principal read their list and said "Well, let's get started, girls! It's going to be a busy year . . . "

How to Walk to School is the story-from the highs to the lows-of motivated neighborhood parents galvanizing and then organizing an entire community to take a leap of faith, transforming a challenged urban school into one of Chicago's best, virtually overnight.

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