Joanne Jacobs will be reading from her book, Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea and the School That Beat the Odds at Philadelphia's Russell Byers Charter School, 1911 Arch St., on Wednesday, May 17 at 5:30 pm.

Joanne's book has gotten excellent reviews--Washington Post columnist Jay Mathews calls it "a ground-breaking book about the most interesting, and potentially important, change in American schooling in the last 15 years"--and looks like it is making a big and timely mark on debates about what does and does not work in American high schools. Be there if you can.

Sounds good.

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