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The Naked Children (Innovators in Education Series)
The Naked Children - Innovators in Education Series Author:Daniel Fader
These [children] and others developed a special formula for survival: "It's smart to play dumb!" Meet them and the man who taught and learned from them in one of the most inspiring books about ghetto life. — - Library Journal
Wentworth, who reads Born Free aloud to his friends, but pretends in school that he can't read--and... more » succeeds so well that his teachers consider him hopelessly illiterate . . . Cleo, the "bad girl" leader of a gang, who develops a rehabilitation program for a fourteen-year old alcoholic pool hustler . . . Snapper, bright and alert enough to rescue a student suffering an epileptic seizure, but who has difficulty responding to the simplest classroom questions. These are the naked children.« less