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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House USA Inc
ISBN-139780345803627
eBay Product ID (ePID)214515528
Product Key Features
Number of Pages384 Pages
Publication NameThe Teacher Wars: a History of America's Most Embattled Profession
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEducation, Strategy, History, Teaching
Publication Year2015
TypeTextbook
AuthorDana Goldstein
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height203 mm
Item Weight357 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorDana Goldstein