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

by Goldstein, Dana
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ISBN: 9780345803627
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A New York Times Bestseller

In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.

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. The Teacher Wars upends the conversation about American education by bringing the lessons of history to bear on the dilemmas we confront today. By asking "How did we get here?" Dana Goldstein brilliantly illuminates the path forward.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Goldstein, Dana
  • ISBN: 9780345803627
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.00 x 0.90
  • Number Of Pages: 384
  • Publication Year: 2015

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