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The Resource The teacher wars : a history of America's most embattled profession, Dana Goldstein

The teacher wars : a history of America's most embattled profession, 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 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 shows that the battles fought over nearly two centuries echo the very dilemmas we cope with today. Goldstein shows that recent innovations like Teach for America, merit pay, and teacher evaluation via student testing are actually as old as public schools themselves. Goldstein argues that long-festering ambivalence about teachers--are they civil servants or academic professionals?--and unrealistic expectations that the schools alone should compensate for poverty's ills have driven the most ambitious people from becoming teachers and sticking with it. In America's past, and in local innovations that promote the professionalization of the teaching corps, Goldstein finds answers to an age-old problem"--
Language
eng
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Edition
First Anchor books edition.
Extent
x, 351 pages
Contents
  • "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
Isbn
9780345803627
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The teacher wars : a history of America's most embattled profession
Title
The teacher wars
Title remainder
a history of America's most embattled profession
Statement of responsibility
Dana Goldstein
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"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 shows that the battles fought over nearly two centuries echo the very dilemmas we cope with today. Goldstein shows that recent innovations like Teach for America, merit pay, and teacher evaluation via student testing are actually as old as public schools themselves. Goldstein argues that long-festering ambivalence about teachers--are they civil servants or academic professionals?--and unrealistic expectations that the schools alone should compensate for poverty's ills have driven the most ambitious people from becoming teachers and sticking with it. In America's past, and in local innovations that promote the professionalization of the teaching corps, Goldstein finds answers to an age-old problem"--
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Goldstein, Dana
Dewey number
371.1020973
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
LA212
LC item number
.G65 2015
Literary form
non fiction
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  • Education
  • Teachers
  • Public schools
  • Educational change
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The teacher wars : a history of America's most embattled profession, Dana Goldstein
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Publication
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-325) and index
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Contents
"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
Control code
ocn895117195
Dimensions
21 cm
Edition
First Anchor books edition.
Extent
x, 351 pages
Isbn
9780345803627
Lccn
2015295790
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)895117195
Label
The teacher wars : a history of America's most embattled profession, Dana Goldstein
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-325) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
"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
Control code
ocn895117195
Dimensions
21 cm
Edition
First Anchor books edition.
Extent
x, 351 pages
Isbn
9780345803627
Lccn
2015295790
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)895117195

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