" I generally don't enjoy books written by people who feel the need to plaster their face all over the book. Ron Clark loves putting his face on everything (front cover, back cover, countless photos, etc.). While I think Mr. Clark is probably a great educator and doing wonderful things for the students at RCA in Harlem, I find his books a bit frustrating. This book contains "101 extraordinary solutions" to get "our kids unstuck" from boring, problematic classrooms/educators/parents. My primary beef with this (and his previous "55 essentials") is that these numbered solutions are often very vague and obvious. Teachers (like myself) who desperately strive to continually improve don't need this guy to state the obvious ("push yourself to be innovative", "listen", etc.) or recount tales of extraordinary students in extraordinary situations with super amazing teachers in unique schools. I want concrete details explaining specific steps I can literally take each day to impact my students and enable them to succeed. This is a quick feel good read, but won't really help me when I get into my classroom. I wish he would spend more time really examining his school and teachers to locate/understand what they are doing and how those skills can be replicated. "
— Joe, 2/11/2014