Home
The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair a New York City High School
Barnes and Noble
The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair a New York City High School
Current price: $22.48
![The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair a New York City High School](https://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/9781455560615_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg)
![The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair a New York City High School](https://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/9781455560615_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg)
Barnes and Noble
The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair a New York City High School
Current price: $22.48
Size: Audiobook
Loading Inventory...
*Product information may vary - to confirm product availability, pricing, shipping and return information please contact Barnes and Noble
In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly collided headlong with the appalling reality of his students' lives and a hobbled education system unable to help them. Freddy runs a drug ring for his incarcerated brother; Nee-cole is homeschooled on the subway by her brilliant homeless mother; Byron's Ivy League dream is dashed because he is undocumented.
In the end, Boland isn't hoisted on his students' shoulders and no one passes AP anything. This is no urban fairy tale of at-risk kids saved by a Hollywood hero, but a searing indictment of schools that claim to be progressive but still fail their students.
Told with compassion, humor, and a keen eye, Boland's story is sure to ignite debate about the future of American education and attempts to reform it.