Mount Pleasant : my journey from creating a billion-dollar company to teaching at a struggling public high school /

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur takes on the challenge of a lifetime: teaching in one of California's toughest high schools. Entrepreneur Steve Poizner had run a billion-dollar company, but the greatest challenge of his life was the year he spent teaching twelfth graders at San Jose's Mt. Pl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Poizner, Steve, 1957-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Portfolio, 2010.
Subjects:	Poizner, Steve, > 1957- Businessmen > California > Biography. Politicians > California > Biography. Volunteer workers in education > California > San Jose > Biography. Mount Pleasant High School (San Jose, Calif.) San Jose (Calif.) > Social conditions. Educational change > California. California > Social policy. California > Politics and government > 1951-

Table of Contents:

Prologue: Why are you here?
Entrepreneur or bust
A foot in the classroom door
Square peg
Will the kids buy it?
Killer material
Turnaround strategies meet the classroom
What can I do?
They all deserve better
Graduation day arrives
Epilogue: Just getting started.