Minimum Competency - A Novel about Education, Testing, Life, and Death in Upstate New York - Bog af Jim Mortensen - Hardback

Minimum Competency - A Novel about Education, Testing, Life, and Death in Upstate New York - Jim Mortensen

In Snyder's Corners, a small dot on the western rim of New York's Catskill Mountains, life is tough. Jobs are scarce, money is tight, and the best part of education is the state-ranked basketball team.Jimmy Kalid, a ninth-grade English teacher at Kaaterskill Central School in the area's centralized district, realizes something's amiss. Despite impressive test scores, his students can barely read. Then his new girlfriend, Phyllis Nielsen, while substituting for the eighth-grade English teacher, makes..