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The battle for room 314 my year of hope and despair in a new york city high school. Boland writes a book filled with funny, startlingly real moments that will entertain and educate even as it sheds light on the problems. In a fit of idealism, ed boland left a twentyyear career as a nonprofit executive to teach in a tough new york city public high school. The battle for room 314 is ed bolands memoir of teaching in a tough nyc public school classroom. The battle for room 314 pima county public library overdrive. Room 314 is a memoir, not a policy guide, even though boland offers recommendations in the book s conclusion. My year of hope and despair in a new york city high.
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