The Beautiful Tree (Record no. 294872)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780670083732
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 371.9091724 TOO-B
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name James Tooley
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Beautiful Tree
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin India
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2009
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 320p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The Beautiful Tree movingly uncovers the efforts of poor communities in education, and finds competent, committed entrepreneurs who have started schools catering to slum children. He discovers young, engaged teachers, passionate entrepreneurs, and teaching models that work to ensure that students are engaged and learning. He finds that even among the unrecognized private schools, average teacher attendance, and English and maths proficiency surpass the apathetic government school system.This is a passionate and engaging account of the children, parents, teachers, and entrepreneurs who Tooley encounters in the face of staunch government denial that these schools actually exist. They taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts-they are building their own schools and learning to save themselves.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Tooley, James -- Travel -- Developing countries. Poor -- Education -- Developing countries. People with social disabilities -- Education -- Developing countries.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 01/09/2015   371.9091724 TOO-B DCB1524 01/09/2015 19/07/2019 Book