Lessons of Hope: How to Fix Our Schools

In 2002, New York City's newly elected mayor, Michael Bloomberg, made a historic announcement: his administration had won control of the city's school system in a first step toward reversing its precipitous decline. In a controversial move, he appointed Joel Klein, an accomplished lawyer from outside the education establishment, to lead this ambitious campaign.




Lessons of Hope is Klein's inside account of his eight-year mission of improvement: demanding accountability, eliminating political ...