“Dan Brown's heartfelt account of the thrills and frustrations of a first-year teacher grips like a novel. A must-read for anyone who has dreamed of a job that makes a difference.”
Anya Kamenetz, author of Generation Debt

 

“[Brown is] an appealing and sympathetic figure with a seemingly genuine talent for teaching… yet he finds himself in charge of a class that is always on the verge of chaos…”
Charles McGrath, The New York Times

 

“The book is not only a great read, it's a vivid portrait of the teacher retention challenge. Each student in Dan's class becomes someone the reader cares about—they all deserve the finest teachers and those teachers deserve a system that supports them...”
Susan Fuhrman, President, Teachers College, Columbia University

 

“ A riveting human drama full of heroes and villains, humor and tragedy. Brown is an exciting new talent and his writing is so clear and suspenseful that the pages turn themselves. I couldn’t put this book down.”
Clara Bingham, co-author of Class Action, basis of the Academy Award-nominated film North Country, and author of Women on the Hill: Challenging the Culture of Congress

 

“Powerful and moving . . . Dan Brown has a story that we need to hear—and respond to.”
Deborah Meier, editor of Many Children Left Behind and author of The Power of Their Ideas and In Schools We Trust

 

“Mr. Brown has written a compelling and engaging story full of the joys, sorrows, absurdities, terrors, and treasures of becoming a teacher.”
Jon Snyder, Dean, Graduate School, Bank Street College of Education

 

“A powerful, heart-breaking story that challenges our image of inner city schools and the children who populate them. Important and moving, The Great Expectations School grabs your attention from the first page and refuses to let go.”
Gilbert M. Gaul, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist

 

"A poignant portrait painted with skill . . . Read it and weep—and wonder no more about the human dimensions of the achievement gap."
Gene I. Maeroff, author of Building Blocks: Making Children Successful in the Early Years of School