Teacher Wars A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

Name: Teacher Wars A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
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ISBN: 9780385536950

ISBN-10: 038553695X

ISBN-13: 9780385536950

Edition: 2014

Authors: Dana Goldstein

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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…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/2/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.44" wide x 9.53" long x 1.29" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English