The teacher wars : a history of America's most embattled profession /
A history of 175 years of teaching in America demonstrates 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 childcare, health care, and job training. Here, schools are the who...
| Основен автор: | Goldstein, Dana, (Author) |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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New York :
Doubleday,
[2014]
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| Издание: | First edition. |
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Съдържание:
- "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.