As Bad as They Say? – Three Decades of Teaching in the Bronx
Autor Janet Grossbach Mayeren Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 apr 2011
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780823234165
ISBN-10: 0823234169
Pagini: 194
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Wiley
ISBN-10: 0823234169
Pagini: 194
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Wiley
Recenzii
Janet Mayer's book is a page-turner about real life in urban classrooms today.-Diane Ravitch
Janet Mayer's As Bad As They Say is a brilliant and badly need answer to business minded 'educational reformers' who think that nothing good happened in American education before they took over. The story of a teacher who spent forty years of her life in Bronx public schools, it shows that the love of teachers for their students is the true transformative force in American education, not mindless imposition of standardized tests. Mayer turns her Bronx students, who learn under the most daunting conditions, into heroes, but in the process reminds us that great teachers are motivated by compassion as well as a love of learning. Signficantly, the book ends with a powerful, carefully documented attack on 'No Child Left Behind' a piece of legislation that seeks to render great teachers like Mayer irrelevant and invisible.-Mark Naison
"Bravo for Janet Mayer for asking the obvious, but unasked, question and providing us with a different way of answering it. We dare not abandon our public schools on the basis of scare tactics, but need to build on the stories she tells, to learn from them what it is that mattered."-Deborah Meier, author of Playing for Keeps: Life and Learning on a Public School Playground
"As Bad As They Say? Is a timely and important book. Janet Mayer's critical take on No Child Left Behind and the testing mania it's brought into our schools is right on target and is badly needed. But it's the stories of her students in the Bronx, whose gifts and talents were suppressed under the rigidity of the federal law--and the ways in which she tried to bring those gifts to life amidst the tough conditions almost all those children faced--that make this book so moving and so powerful."-Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
"An eloquent reflection on a career in teaching. Mayer's experiences and the lessons she
Janet Mayer's As Bad As They Say is a brilliant and badly need answer to business minded 'educational reformers' who think that nothing good happened in American education before they took over. The story of a teacher who spent forty years of her life in Bronx public schools, it shows that the love of teachers for their students is the true transformative force in American education, not mindless imposition of standardized tests. Mayer turns her Bronx students, who learn under the most daunting conditions, into heroes, but in the process reminds us that great teachers are motivated by compassion as well as a love of learning. Signficantly, the book ends with a powerful, carefully documented attack on 'No Child Left Behind' a piece of legislation that seeks to render great teachers like Mayer irrelevant and invisible.-Mark Naison
"Bravo for Janet Mayer for asking the obvious, but unasked, question and providing us with a different way of answering it. We dare not abandon our public schools on the basis of scare tactics, but need to build on the stories she tells, to learn from them what it is that mattered."-Deborah Meier, author of Playing for Keeps: Life and Learning on a Public School Playground
"As Bad As They Say? Is a timely and important book. Janet Mayer's critical take on No Child Left Behind and the testing mania it's brought into our schools is right on target and is badly needed. But it's the stories of her students in the Bronx, whose gifts and talents were suppressed under the rigidity of the federal law--and the ways in which she tried to bring those gifts to life amidst the tough conditions almost all those children faced--that make this book so moving and so powerful."-Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
"An eloquent reflection on a career in teaching. Mayer's experiences and the lessons she