This book is about passion, advocacy, and the willingness of parents to go against the grain. It's about Hawai'i professionals choosing public education for their children in a state that adheres to a commonly held belief that public schools are failing and private schools are succeeding. University of Hawai'i education professor Ann Bayer interviewed fifty-one parents, including five who chose private schools. Physicians, professors, attorneys, military officers, teachers, legislators, business executives and entrepreneurs, bankers, and administrators of both genders and from a wide range...

This book is about passion, advocacy, and the willingness of parents to go against the grain. It's about Hawai'i professionals choosing public education for their children in a state that adheres to a commonly held belief that public schools are failing and private schools are succeeding. University of Hawai'i education professor Ann Bayer interviewed fifty-one parents, including five who chose private schools. Physicians, professors, attorneys, military officers, teachers, legislators, business executives and entrepreneurs, bankers, and administrators of both genders and from a wide range...