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The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Book by Dana Goldstein
In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious pr…
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Originally publishedJanuary 1, 2014
Author Dana Goldstein
GenreEducation · Nonfiction · History · Teaching · Politics · School · American History · Sociology · Social Justice · American
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This is a fascinating book - it provides a history of American education and the complex role that 'being a teacher' ha…
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This is a fascinating book - it provides a history of American education and the complex role that 'being a teacher' has often involved. One of the problems with histories is that it is all too easy to see parallels - you know the old saying, those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it - but I think something else I read about history is truer than that, that history doesn't repeat, but rather rhymes. So, when you read that female teachers were encouraged into education and that this was partly due to them being cheaper to pay while (since they had so few other options) were also generally smarter than their male counterparts, it isn't too much of a stretch to hear rhymes with some of the problems faced in education today.It hadn't occurred to me that school teachers might be among the most unionised of all workers in the US - when you think about unionised labour, I assume 'school teachers' aren't the occupation that comes more readily to mind. However, this is also true here in Australia (80-85% unionised). What is interesting is that the level of unionisation has been something that has focused attention on teachers and been used against them. The assumption is that strong unionisation means that it is impossible to get rid of bad teachers - I worked as a union organiser for nearly 20 years, although in a different industry, but I still doubt this would be the case. Teachers love kids, they want to see them educated. The union would not have the support of the teachers in a school if they ensured truly awful teachers could not be dismissed. So, while films like 'Waiting for Superman' imply that America can sack its way to a great education system, I think this sounds more like a neoliberal wet-dream than anything with even a skerrick of merit.America is an interesting case, and not least …
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This book’s title might connote a tense battlefield, with ruler-brandishing teachers firmly entrenched against the remo…
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This book’s title might connote a tense battlefield, with ruler-brandishing teachers firmly entrenched against the remonstrations of an angry citizenry. But, like any serious student of history, author Dana Goldstein knows such simplistic images belie the messy truth about wars, which is that they are rife with broken borders, double crossings, unexpected victories, and crushing defeats. So it has been with America’s public education system.The Teacher Wars is a fascinating, much needed historical account of public teaching in America over the last two centuries. It contains a host of well written, nuanced narratives about important figures in American education, each of which adds a particular flavor to the nation’s complex dialogue about what public schools are for and how best to run them. Goldstein is careful not to lionize or condemn any single individual or point of view, aiming instead for a rich portrait of perspectives that eschews dichotomous or naive interpretations of educational goals and challenges. As an in-depth look at the history of the American teacher, this book is an excellent resource. Unfortunately, it fails to address the full scope of pressing problems facing today’s public schools, many of which are downplayed or omitted entirely.The most useful historical lesson here is that America’s past is peppered with precedents for today’s educational difficulties. From the very start, public educators have debated issues of teacher pay and tenure, school funding, the place of morality in curriculum, racial discrimination, vocational versus intellectual tracks, the role of parents in educating their kids, and the question of how much exhaustion and stress teachers should take on trying to teach impoverished students. Rather than the occasional flareup …
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This book gives us a good history of how teaching evolved in the United States, in particular how women came to play …
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This book gives us a good history of how teaching evolved in the United States, in particular how women came to play a primary role in the profession. It became a career acceptable to women, but only for single women. Also, women were paid less than man, a considerable savings to those like small outlying communities, paying the salaries.Unions became involved with teachers in the early twentieth century. To some extent this led later to a downgrading of the teaching profession due to “tenure” which meant that a teacher could not be dismissed after receiving tenure after two years of teaching. There was job security in teaching which did not exist in other lines of work. As parents became more embroiled in schools and the curriculum, they came to realize that although some teachers were excellent and highly motivated, others were less so. It is now possible to fire tenured teachers. Perhaps this sounds harsh, but it is the children who pay the price for an entire school semester when a teacher is lacklustre.The author also discusses the various forms of evaluation that have changed over the years for teachers. During the First World War teachers were forced to take a loyalty oath – a good reason for union action. In the last forty years there have been multiple ways of accessing how effective teachers are – by using endless testing of students, of having motivated experienced teachers placed in the classrooms of poorly evaluated teachers, of constantly monitoring classrooms… From all these methods I would gather that the principals and vice-principals would need to devote their entire day to shuttling between classrooms to do evaluations. Or a full-staff would be required to do the auditing and then reporting on teacher performance. All this in an …
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