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Joe Cleffie
Jun 13, 2014, 12:33:47 PM6/13/14
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Hi all,
-- We've scheduled the book launch for another Haymarket title, Jose Vilson's This Is Not a Test. It's Monday, July 28, at 7 pm at Wooden Shoe. Please promote widely!
with José Luis Vilson, Chris Lehmann and other guests TBA!
Join a timely discussion on the joys and burdens of today’s education system, celebrating the release of his first book, This Is Not a Test, out now from Haymarket Books (http://bit.ly/1shqNoN)
A book signing will follow the discussion.
Graduating from Syracuse University with a degree in computer science, Jose Vilson left campus with no job and a few hundred dollars to his name, propelling him (eventually) to his calling: teaching middle school children math in a public school in Washington Heights/Inwood, Manhattan. From his own background as a boy growing up on the drug-tainted, community-centered projects of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, this book takes the reader on the coming-of-age story of a naïve young man struggling to mature through the first few years of his career, balancing the lows of murder, poverty, and academic failure to the highs of growth and eventual triumph.
His career takes a twist when he starts a blog with incisive commentary on the state of education on his eponymous blog TheJoseVilson.com, taking prominent figures and institutions like NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and The New York Times to task. (As of this letter, the site is banned from most NYC Department of Education computers, yet read by central offices.) In his collection of multifaceted essays, he provokes discussion on issues of race, gentrification, and the teaching profession from the eyes of a Black-Latino educator with a mix of research and first-hand experience.
This education book is not to be missed!
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José Luis Vilson is a math educator for a middle school in the Inwood/Washington Heights neighborhood of New York, NY. He writes for Edutopia, GOOD, and TransformED/Future of Teaching, and has written for CNN.com, Education Week, Huffington Post, and El Diario/La Prensa.
Chris Lehmann is the founding principal of the Science Leadership Academy, a progressive science and technology high school in Philadelphia, PA. Chris has spoken at conferences all over the world, and in June he was named Outstanding Leader of the Year by the International Society of Technology in Education.
Join a timely discussion on the joys and burdens of today’s education system, celebrating the release of his first book, This Is Not a Test, out now from Haymarket Books (http://bit.ly/1shqNoN)
A book signing will follow the discussion.
Graduating from Syracuse University with a degree in computer science, Jose Vilson left campus with no job and a few hundred dollars to his name, propelling him (eventually) to his calling: teaching middle school children math in a public school in Washington Heights/Inwood, Manhattan. From his own background as a boy growing up on the drug-tainted, community-centered projects of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, this book takes the reader on the coming-of-age story of a naïve young man struggling to mature through the first few years of his career, balancing the lows of murder, poverty, and academic failure to the highs of growth and eventual triumph.
His career takes a twist when he starts a blog with incisive commentary on the state of education on his eponymous blog TheJoseVilson.com, taking prominent figures and institutions like NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and The New York Times to task. (As of this letter, the site is banned from most NYC Department of Education computers, yet read by central offices.) In his collection of multifaceted essays, he provokes discussion on issues of race, gentrification, and the teaching profession from the eyes of a Black-Latino educator with a mix of research and first-hand experience.
This education book is not to be missed!
* * *
José Luis Vilson is a math educator for a middle school in the Inwood/Washington Heights neighborhood of New York, NY. He writes for Edutopia, GOOD, and TransformED/Future of Teaching, and has written for CNN.com, Education Week, Huffington Post, and El Diario/La Prensa.
Chris Lehmann is the founding principal of the Science Leadership Academy, a progressive science and technology high school in Philadelphia, PA. Chris has spoken at conferences all over the world, and in June he was named Outstanding Leader of the Year by the International Society of Technology in Education.
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