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The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

✍ Scribed by Goldstein, Dana

Book ID: 108645581
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year: 2014
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 3 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780385536950

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✦ Synopsis

A brilliant young scholar's history of 175 years of teaching in America shows that teachers have always borne the brunt of shifting, often impossible expectations.

In other nations, public schools are one thread in a quilt that includes free universal child care, health care, and job training. Here, schools are the whole cloth. Today we look around the world at countries like Finland and South Korea, whose students consistently outscore Americans on standardized tests, and wonder what we are doing wrong. Dana Goldstein first asks the often-forgotten question: "How did we get here?" She argues that we must take the historical perspective, understanding the political and cultural baggage that is tied to teaching, if we have any hope of positive change. In her lively, character-driven history of public teaching, Goldstein guides us through American education's many passages, including the feminization of teaching in the 1800s and the fateful growth of unions, and...

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