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Getting Schooled

By Garret Keizer

Getting Schooled book

Getting Schooled

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A New York Times Editors' Choice "Keizer writes eloquently and perceptively . . . More than just thoughtful, reasonable, carefully observed, elegantly written, and deeply humane, this book is also that rare thing, a work of genuine wisdom."-Chicago Tribune Perhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching. The voices of the teachers themselves, however, are conspicuously missing. Defying the trend, teacher and writer Garret Keizer takes us to school in this arresting chronicle of his return to the same rural Vermont high school where he taught fourteen years ago. Much has changed since then-a former student is his principal, standardized testing is the reigning god, and smoking in the boys' room has been supplanted by texting in the boys' room. More familiar are the effects of poverty, the exuberance of youth, and the staggering workload that technology has done as much to increase as to lighten. At once fiercely critical and deeply contemplative, Getting Schooled exposes the obstacles that teachers face daily-and along the way takes aim at some cherished cant: that public education is doomed, that the heroic teacher is the cure for all that ails education, that educational reform can serve as a cheap substitute for societal reform.
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
322
Release Date:
2015-07-28
Publication Date:
2015-07-28
Publisher:
St. Martins Press-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1250069386
ISBN13:
9781250069382
Weight:
443 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
19 cm

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