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- Book Title
- It's the Teacher, Stupid! Thoughts on Restructuring Education in
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Publisher
Trafford Publishing
ISBN-10
1553694961
ISBN-13
9781553694960
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2274747
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
162 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
It's the Teacher, Stupid! : Thoughts on Restructuring Education in the United States
Subject
General
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Education
Format
Trade Paperback
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Item Weight
9.1 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
370/.973
Synopsis
Imagine, if you will, a group of doctors trained in 1850 seeing for the first time a modern operating room. They would, of course, be overwhelmed - and not just with the equipment! Even the process of diagnosing the patient's problem would be totally alien. We can probably all agree that change for the sake of change, whether in education or elsewhere, is not necessarily desirable. In fact, Melcher's logic frequently takes us back to some of the successful structures and patterns of education which have been abandoned in a decades-long, discouraging parade of failure: our attempts at curriculum reform, the introduction of more and more social programs, the growing dominance of athletics and the ever-less-demanding levels of academic achievement. In the course of these observations he makes us realize that without substantial qualitative changes in the structure of the school "system(s)" themselves, the general quality of public education will continue its descent to ever-lower levels of mediocrity. And nothing of this accelerating process, which has been characterized by others as "the dumbing down of America," is as critical as the ever-shrinking pool of high quality teachers. Always in short supply, the number of bright and well-educated young people who graduate from college and enter the teaching profession is shrinking rapidly. Mostly because teaching salaries have never kept pace with the economic development in this country, a situation which in turn has been encouraged by the lack of professionalism projected by teacher unions, the young people who should be exercising their talents in the classroom are entering other businesses and professions where their efforts are more respected and better compensated. This is a book by a man who has worked with schools and school children for forty years, a man who appeals to our common sense to begin the painful process of necessary change., While politicians call for better standardized test scores, more security, The Ten Commandments in every classroom, compulsory classes in Patriotism, and other meaningless solutions to 21st century problems, the 19th century "system" of public education, which absorbs and then spits out all attempts to reform it, goes right on churning out its hapless graduates with meaningless diplomas. As in all huge bureaucracies, self-preservation has supplanted meaningful action and only systemic change of an overwhelming nature can once again bring it to serve our children in a time of blindingly fast economic and social metamorphosis.
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