The teacher wars : a history of America's most embattled profession
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- ISBN: 9780345803627
- ISBN: 0345803620
- ISBN: 038553695X
- ISBN: 9780385536950
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Physical Description:
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x, 351 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm - Edition: First Anchor books edition.
- Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, 2015.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-325) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | "Missionary teachers" : the common schools movement and the feminization of American teaching -- "Repressed indignation" : the feminist challenge to American education -- "No shirking, no skulking" : Black teachers and racial uplift after the Civil War -- "School ma'ams as lobbyists" : the birth of teachers unions and the battle between progressive pedagogy and school efficiency -- "An orgy of investigation" : witch hunts and social movement unionism during the wars -- "The only valid passport from poverty" : the great expectations of Great Society teachers -- "We both got militant" : union teachers versus Black Power during the era of community control -- "Very disillusioned" : how teacher accountability displaced desegregation and local control -- "Big, measurable goals" : a data-driven vision for millennial teaching -- "Let me use what I know" : reforming education by empowering teachers -- Epilogue: Lessons from history for improving teaching today. |
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Subject: | Education United States History Teachers Professional relationships United States History Public schools United States History Educational change United States History |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | LA 212 .G65 2015 | 30775305527039 | General Collection | Available | - |
The Teacher Wars : A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
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The Teacher Wars : A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education that brings the lessons of the past to bear on the dilemmas we face today--and brilliantly illuminates the path forward for public schools. "[A] lively account." -- New York Times Book Review In The Teacher Wars , a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been embattled for nearly two centuries. She uncovers the surprising roots of hot button issues, from teacher tenure to charter schools, and finds that recent popular ideas to improve schools--instituting merit pay, evaluating teachers by student test scores, ranking and firing veteran teachers, and recruiting "elite" graduates to teach--are all approaches that have been tried in the past without producing widespread change.