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050	0	0	_aLA212 _b.G65 2014
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100	1		_aGoldstein, Dana, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe teacher wars : _ba history of America's most embattled profession / _cDana Goldstein.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bDoubleday, _c[2014]
300			_a349 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 317-323) and index.
505	0		_a"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.
520			_aA 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 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.
650		0	_aEducation _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aTeachers _xProfessional relationships _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aPublic schools _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aEducational change _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		7	_aEDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aEDUCATION / History. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aEDUCATION / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aEducational change. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00903371
650		7	_aPublic schools. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01082942
650		7	_aTeachers _xProfessional relationships. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01767821
650		7	_aTeaching. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01144565
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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