The Beautiful Tree - Tooley, James
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Upon its first release several years ago, The Beautiful Tree was instantly embraced and praised by individuals and organizations across the globe. James Tooley's extraordinary ability to braid together personal experience, community action, individual courage, and family devotion, brought readers to the very heart, in all respects, of education. "This is a book that is filled with hope," noted the London Review of Books, "and one cannot but feel moved by the struggle of poor parents and their children doing their best to get into education for all the right reasons."

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Upon its first release several years ago, The Beautiful Tree was instantly embraced and praised by individuals and organizations across the globe. James Tooley's extraordinary ability to braid together personal experience, community action, individual courage, and family devotion, brought readers to the very heart, in all respects, of education. "This is a book that is filled with hope," noted the London Review of Books, "and one cannot but feel moved by the struggle of poor parents and their children doing their best to get into education for all the right reasons."
Autorenporträt
James Tooley is a professor of education policy at Newcastle University. There he is the director of the E. G. West Centre, which is dedicated to choice, competition, and entrepreneurship in education. An award-winning scholar featured in PBS and BBC documentaries, he has written several books, and his work has been covered in Newsweek, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. He was a professor in leading universities in England, Canada, and South Africa, and also lived in Hyderabad, India, where he worked with the entrepreneurs and teachers who inspired this book.