IMPROBABLE SCHOLARS: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools. This item is unavailable.IMPROBABLE SCHOLARS: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools

An inspiring blueprint showing how to create not just a single exemplary school or a handful of high-flying charter schools, but a superb inner city school system.

David L. Kirp, a nationally-known education expert, is James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. In seventeen books and scores of articles in newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, American Prospect, and the Atlantic, as well as in leading academic journals, he has covered the education waterfront from cradle to college. After the 2008 election, he served on President Obama's Transition Team.