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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Agroundbreaking history of175 years of American education thatbrings the lessons of the past to bear on the dilemmas we face todayand brilliantly illuminates the path forward for public schools
A lively accountNew York Times Book Review
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 schoolsinstituting merit pay evaluating teachers by student test scores ranking and firing veteran teachers and recruiting elite graduates to teachare all approaches that have been tried in the past without producing widespread change
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