Jonathan Starr It Takes A School
Feb 15, 2017 ·
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‘IT TAKES A SCHOOL: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World’s #1 Failed State’ By Jonathan Starr: A Former Hedge Fund Manager and the School He Founded...
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‘IT TAKES A SCHOOL: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World’s #1 Failed State’ By Jonathan Starr: A Former Hedge Fund Manager and the School He Founded in Somaliland Offer Valuable Lessons for Our Own Education System and Immigration Policies
In 2009, success was unlikely at best. IT TAKES A SCHOOL: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World's #1 Failed State (Henry Holt and Company) details how Jonathan Starr, once a cutthroat hedge fund manager, and his staff struggled with profound cultural differences, broken promises, opportunists seeking to exploit the project’s many difficulties, and threats to their safety to create a unique school in Somaliland whose students, against all odds, have come to achieve success beyond anyone’s wildest dreams!!
They founded ABAARSO, a secondary school in Somaliland.
The team labored to earn the trust of a skeptical and clan-based community and endeavored to trust in return. They worked with children, parents, neighbors to break down the cultural and physical barriers to school enrollment. Starr clashed with the NGO community—pushing against ineffective models and ideologies—and learned to lean on his own business experience to move forward.
This endeavour seemed crazy to even his closest friends. “Why,” they wondered, “would he turn down a life of relative luxury to relocate to an armed compound in a breakaway region of the world’s #1 failed state?”
IT TAKES A SCHOOL tells how Starr’s abstract vision became a transformative reality, and how a school built in one of the most impoverished regions on earth prepared its children to compete anywhere in the world. Ultimately, it prompts the question, “If it can happen there, why can’t it happen here?”
It is the story of a skeptical and clan-based society learning to give way to trust. And it’s the story of the students themselves, including a boy from a family of nomads who took off on his own in search of an education and a girl who waged a hunger strike in order to convince her strict parents to send her to Abaarso.
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In 2009, success was unlikely at best. IT TAKES A SCHOOL: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World's #1 Failed State (Henry Holt and Company) details how Jonathan Starr, once a cutthroat hedge fund manager, and his staff struggled with profound cultural differences, broken promises, opportunists seeking to exploit the project’s many difficulties, and threats to their safety to create a unique school in Somaliland whose students, against all odds, have come to achieve success beyond anyone’s wildest dreams!!
They founded ABAARSO, a secondary school in Somaliland.
The team labored to earn the trust of a skeptical and clan-based community and endeavored to trust in return. They worked with children, parents, neighbors to break down the cultural and physical barriers to school enrollment. Starr clashed with the NGO community—pushing against ineffective models and ideologies—and learned to lean on his own business experience to move forward.
This endeavour seemed crazy to even his closest friends. “Why,” they wondered, “would he turn down a life of relative luxury to relocate to an armed compound in a breakaway region of the world’s #1 failed state?”
IT TAKES A SCHOOL tells how Starr’s abstract vision became a transformative reality, and how a school built in one of the most impoverished regions on earth prepared its children to compete anywhere in the world. Ultimately, it prompts the question, “If it can happen there, why can’t it happen here?”
It is the story of a skeptical and clan-based society learning to give way to trust. And it’s the story of the students themselves, including a boy from a family of nomads who took off on his own in search of an education and a girl who waged a hunger strike in order to convince her strict parents to send her to Abaarso.
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