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Tracy Kidder, Among Schoolchildren Kidder spent a year at the Kelly School in Holyoke, Mass., a city in which the elevation of the houses corresponds to the socioeconomic status of their residents, and the divisions between races and classes are deep and strong. Kidder spends his days in Chris Zajac's 5th-grade classroom, watching as Zajac, a Holyoke native, learns to balance being a teacher with being, at times, a lawyer, a psychologist and a social worker. Her students have problems more far-reaching than she can dig, and her time with them is limited. Yet Kidder concludes that Zajac is someone "who can never fully know the good [she] has done." |
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