Teaching in America: The Slow RevolutionHarvard University Press, 30. juni 2009 - 288 sider If the essential acts of teaching are the same for schoolteachers and professors, why are they seen as members of quite separate professions? Would the nation's schools be better served if teachers shared more of the authority that professors have long enjoyed? Will a slow revolution be completed that enables schoolteachers to take charge of their practice--to shoulder more responsibility for hiring, mentoring, promoting, and, if necessary, firing their peers? This book explores these questions by analyzing the essential acts of teaching in a way that will help all teachers become more thoughtful practitioners. It presents portraits of teachers (most of them women) struggling to take control of their practice in a system dominated by an administrative elite (mostly male). The educational system, Gerald Grant and Christine Murray argue, will be saved not by better managers but by better teachers. And the only way to secure them is by attracting talented recruits, developing their skills, and instituting better means of assessing teachers' performance. Grant and Murray describe the evolution of the teaching profession over the last hundred years, and then focus in depth on recent experiments that gave teachers the power to shape their schools and mentor young educators. The authors conclude by analyzing three equally possible scenarios depicting the role of teachers in 2020. |
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... performance of some functions (saving lives or deciding how property claims will be litigated, for example) than others (repairing shoes). A rational society will therefore stratify and select more rigorously for some pursuits than for ...
... performance of some functions (saving lives or deciding how property claims will be litigated, for example) than others (repairing shoes). A rational society will therefore stratify and select more rigorously for some pursuits than for ...
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... performance of America's schools have been a staple of mass media coverage long before the Nation at Risk report was issued in 1983. But appraisals have had more political clout since the development of sophisticated international ...
... performance of America's schools have been a staple of mass media coverage long before the Nation at Risk report was issued in 1983. But appraisals have had more political clout since the development of sophisticated international ...
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... performance of American children varies greatly by subject and grade level. It is generally high in reading, average in geography and science, and low in math. The international comparisons have gotten most of the media play, but they ...
... performance of American children varies greatly by subject and grade level. It is generally high in reading, average in geography and science, and low in math. The international comparisons have gotten most of the media play, but they ...
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... performance.” Generally, students' ability to give adequate explanations of their reasoning process was limited. Only 22 percent of fourth-graders and 59 percent of eighth-graders were able to solve this problem about earning money for ...
... performance.” Generally, students' ability to give adequate explanations of their reasoning process was limited. Only 22 percent of fourth-graders and 59 percent of eighth-graders were able to solve this problem about earning money for ...
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... performance in history and literature showed that contemporary students scored about as well as their forebears. Moreover, as we have noted, most of the attention has focused on math scores, while the superior international performance ...
... performance in history and literature showed that contemporary students scored about as well as their forebears. Moreover, as we have noted, most of the attention has focused on math scores, while the superior international performance ...
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3 The Essential Acts of Teaching | 31 |
4 Three Questions Every Teacher Must Answer | 57 |
Florences Story 18901920 | 76 |
Andrenas Story 19601990 | 103 |
The Rochester Story 19871997 | 141 |
8 The Progress of the Slow Revolution throughout the Nation | 182 |
9 Teaching in 2020 | 213 |
Research Methods | 239 |
Acknowledgments | 269 |
Index | 271 |
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