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Blame Teachers

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Author : Steven P. Jones
language : en
Publisher: IAP
Release Date : 2015-08-01

Blame Teachers written by Steven P. Jones and has been published by IAP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-01 with Education categories.

There is a story going around about the public schools and the people who teach in them—a story about how awful our nation’s teachers are and why we should blame teachers for the poor state of our public schools. But is the story about teachers right or fair? Why do so many people point fingers at teachers and seem to resent them so much? Blame Teachers: The Emotional Reasons for Educational Reform examines why many people blame teachers for what they understand to be the poor state of our schools. Blame comes easily to many people when they read about poor student performance and how “protected” teachers are by teachers’ unions and tenure policies. And with blame comes resentment, and with resentment comes demands for all kinds of educational reform—calls for more standardized testing, merit pay, charter schools, and all the rest. And we expect teachers to like and accept all the reforms being proposed. Conceiving educational reform out of blame and resentment aimed at teachers does no good for teachers, students, or schools. Blame Teachers outlines many of the strange and unacceptable assumptions about teaching and the purposes of education contained in these educational reforms. Intended for teachers, teacher education students, policymakers and the larger public, Blame Teachers suggests much better and more productive conversations we can have with teachers—conversations much more likely to improve teaching and learning in classrooms. The book argues for conversations with teachers that don’t begin or end with blame and resentment. In this lively, personal meditation on what it means to be a teacher, Steven Jones demonstrates how an emotional, unreasoned ‘blame game’ directed at teachers by educational reformers today is undercutting the future of the nation’s children. It is doing so by threatening to deprive them of teachers as contrasted with by?the?numbers technicians. Today’s reformers neglect the philosopher Spinoza’s time honored insight, that a person in the grip of emotion is “in human bondage” and simply cannot see the truth of things. Can educators themselves, in tandem with knowledgeable members of the public, transform the reformers’ dogmatic, harmful narrative about our teachers? Jones’ thoughtful study will surely help in this much?needed effort. ~ David T. Hansen, Weinberg Professor in the Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education, Teachers College

Misplaced Blame

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Author : Bonnie Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-10-14

Misplaced Blame written by Bonnie Johnson and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-14 with Education categories.

Misplaced Blame: Decades of Failing Schools, Their Children and Their Teachers examines the underlying causes of why schools fail. The book describes the challenges that teachers and their pupils encounter in an environment that is dictated by poverty and harsh, unfunded mandates. The volume illustrates that school failure reflects a lack of opportunities—nothing more. The book also discusses the changing role of teachers over the years and teacher-led efforts to improve their students’ circumstances.

Blaming Teachers

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Author : Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2020-08-14

Blaming Teachers written by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-14 with Education categories.

Winner of the 2021 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Historically, Americans of all stripes have concurred that teachers were essential to the success of the public schools and nation. However, they have also concurred that public school teachers were to blame for the failures of the schools and identified professionalization as a panacea. In Blaming Teachers, Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz reveals that historical professionalization reforms subverted public school teachers’ professional legitimacy. Superficially, professionalism connotes authority, expertise, and status. Professionalization for teachers never unfolded this way; rather, it was a policy process fueled by blame where others identified teachers’ shortcomings. Policymakers, school leaders, and others understood professionalization measures for teachers as efficient ways to bolster the growing bureaucratic order of the public schools through regulation and standardization. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century with the rise of municipal public school systems and reaching into the 1980s, Blaming Teachers traces the history of professionalization policies and the discourses of blame that sustained them.

Bad Teacher How Blaming Teachers Distorts The Bigger Picture

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Author : Kevin K. Kumashiro
language : en
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Release Date : 2015-04-25

Bad Teacher How Blaming Teachers Distorts The Bigger Picture written by Kevin K. Kumashiro and has been published by Teachers College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-25 with Education categories.

In his latest book, leading educator and author Kevin Kumashiro takes aim at the current debate on educational reform, paying particular attention to the ways that scapegoating public school teachers, teacher unions, and teacher educators masks the real, systemic problems. He convincingly demonstrates how current trends, like market-based reforms and fast-track teacher certification programs are creating overwhelming obstacles to achieving an equitable education for all children. Bad Teacher! highlights the common ways that both the public and influential leaders think about the problems and solutions for public education, and suggests ways to help us see the bigger picture and reframe the debate. Compelling, accessible, and grounded in current initiatives and debates, this book is important reading for a diverse audience of policymakers, school leaders, parents, and everyone who cares about education. Kevin K. Kumashiro is director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education and president-elect (2010–2012) of the National Association for Multicultural Education. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the author of The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America's Schools. Praise for Bad Teacher! “This book could be a springboard for teachers . . . to become more actively involved in advocating for a paradigm shift in our concept of education.” —Grace Lee Boggs, The Boggs Center “Kumashiro is a remarkable sleuth who … shows us how the deck is stacked, how the game is played, who gains, and who loses. Join him in a clarion call to build a Movement to reclaim public education.” —Robert P. Moses, The Algebra Project “Courageous, blunt, and hopeful, Bad Teacher! offers a democratic vision for true educational change.” —Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts at Amherst “Anyone seeking to understand why so many of the reforms we have pursued have failed will benefit from reading this book.” —Pedro A. Noguera, New York University “Kumashiro explains why we should think differently about the prescriptions that are now taken for granted—and wrong.” —Diane Ravitch, New York University, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education “Kumashiro expertly examines the many forces working against public education, and how and why these forces are at play.” —Dennis Van Roekel, President, National Education Association “Bad Teacher! is oh-so-smart and timely. . . . This book attacks head-on the ragged patchwork of ‘school reform’ that has left us without even the vocabulary to frame what’s gone wrong.” —Patricia J. Williams, Columbia Law School 2012 Must-read book about K–12 education in the U.S., Christian Science Monitor

You Can T Blame The Teachers

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Author : J. D. Whitford
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2011-03-30

You Can T Blame The Teachers written by J. D. Whitford and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-30 with Education categories.

Schools used to set standards, and students were expected to meet them. Today, teachers are told they must entertain the students. Students know that if they don't pay attention, the teacher will be blamed. Teachers are expected to pass students even when they refuse to work. If a student knows he will pass whether he works or not, he will not work. The school board and the administration set these standards, then blame teachers for the results. And the media, and the public have swallowed their excuses. American Universities are the envy of the world, yet our public schools are among the worst, because Universities demand the best from their students, while public schools have fallen prey to “new age” concepts that just don't work. Written by a teacher, You Can't Blame the Teachers is a lively and honest look at what's really behind the failure of American education. It captures the frustration, the absurdity, and the outright stupidity of daily life in American high schools. Visit our website at www.youcantblametheteachers.com

Don T Blame The Messenger

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Author : Lee Kronert
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2012-10-15

Don T Blame The Messenger written by Lee Kronert and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-15 with Fiction categories.

The public education system in New York is in turmoil. Is this because of leadership in Albany, the No Child Left Behind Act, parents who fail in their effort to raise children properly, or is it just the fault of kids who show little to no respect for authority, peers, or themselves? Or should we accept the most popular place of blame? The teacher is the problem. The former world, where teachers were revered, looked up to by children and parents, and respected because of the crucial role they played, is all but a forgotten memory. Today, parents and school administrators often demonize teachers and are openly critical of the tenure system, which protects their positions seemingly forever. Riverton School District has lots of issues. There is rampant bullying and peer intimidation. Some kids are even afraid to come to school. The disrespect and outrageous behavior runs not only unchecked, but leadership in Albany wants to see even less discipline and consequences for the young perpetrators. Brendan Moss teaches eighth-grade math at Riverton. As a widower and devoted father of three, he does his best to assist young people, but the school superintendent wants to use the veteran math teacher as a test case to overturn the right to lifetime tenure. Don’t Blame the Messenger addresses school policies, State Department of Education leadership, bullying, and why a teacher’s tenure should be maintained and viewed as something good for kids and the process of learning. The author works in the trenches, where truth and reality collide. Opinions on what is wrong with public education vary. Don’t Blame the Messenger is written by a teacher who knows how it really is.

Don T Blame Teachers

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Author : Justin Liu
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2009-02-01

Don T Blame Teachers written by Justin Liu and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-01 with Education categories.

50 years after the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, and 43 years after the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, the United States still cannot provide equal education to all. The urban public school education is no longer just in crisis but is a catastrophe. The graduation rates, city and state assessments results, and SAT scores all indicated that the city public schools are failing. The issues involved are not just the racial inequality. The ethnic compositions of our nation's urban and the suburban areas had undergone tremendous transformations. The United States soon will find her white population no longer the majority in schools. A segregation of another kind is now trapping millions of our nation's urban students in schools that cannot provide them with the equal opportunities that are available to the students in the more privileged and smaller communities. To improve the nation's education system, we must first bridge the gap between the city public school and suburban and private schools. The United States may be a superpower but in education is lagging behind. The high school graduates of this great nation have become less competitive in comparison with the high school graduates of many foreign countries. The overall student performance, judged by state assessments and SAT, has not improved much since the enacting of the "No Child Left Behind". Dr. Justin Liu, the writer of this book, after the extensive research and the actual working as a licensed chemistry teacher in a school of Boston Public School System describes the observation made for an entire school year as a teacher and reveals the following facts with statistics about the city public schools: Poor results of the State Assessments Equal facilities provide unequal education Alarmingly low SAT scores Forcing identical curriculums to all students Extremely low graduating rates Taking too much time from direct teaching Inflated grades to raise the graduation rate Lacking value and moral education Science education in a vacuum Lacking adequate mental health services Becoming incubators of crimes The obsolete and costly busing system Dr. Liu also has compared in details the Unites States public education system with those of five other countries. In this book, he had made specific proposals to the politicians and the school policy makers to reverse the failing trend of the current city public school education. Dr. Justin Liu, the author of three other books, is an international seminar organizer and speaker covering a wide varieties of financial and educational subjects. Holding a Ph.D. in chemistry, he is also a licensed independent real estate broker. For the purpose of writing this book, he fulfilled all the state requirements and actually worked as a teacher in a city public school for a full school year.

The Intellectual Bondage Of Our Children

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Author : Kent Swanson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-01-01

The Intellectual Bondage Of Our Children written by Kent Swanson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with categories.

Take a fresh look at our public school system. Look at how children learn from a new perspective. Consider commonsense solutions for solving our public schools problems that the main stream policy makers have not even considered. Be prepared to look at our children in a new light. Be prepared to do some soul searching. You will be surprised to find out who is responsible for the current public school system. You will be delighted to find out how simple it would be to release our children from their intellectual bondage.

The Ohio Educational Monthly And The National Teacher

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886

The Ohio Educational Monthly And The National Teacher written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Education categories.

Don T Blame The Messenger

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Author : Lee Kronert
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2012-10

The public education system in New York is in turmoil. Is this because of leadership in Albany, the No Child Left Behind Act, parents who fail in their effort to raise children properly, or is it just the fault of kids who show little to no respect for authority, peers, or themselves? Or should we accept the most popular place of blame? The teacher is the problem.The former world, where teachers were revered, looked up to by children and parents, and respected because of the crucial role they played, is all but a forgotten memory. Today, parents and school administrators often demonize teachers and are openly critical of the tenure system, which protects their positions seemingly forever.Riverton School District has lots of issues. There is rampant bullying and peer intimidation. Some kids are even afraid to come to school. The disrespect and outrageous behavior runs not only unchecked, but leadership in Albany wants to see even less discipline and consequences for the young perpetrators.Brendan Moss teaches eighth-grade math at Riverton. As a widower and devoted father of three, he does his best to assist young people, but the school superintendent wants to use the veteran math teacher as a test case to overturn the right to lifetime tenure. Don't Blame the Messenger addresses school policies, State Department of Education leadership, bullying, and why a teacher's tenure should be maintained and viewed as something good for kids and the process of learning.The author works in the trenches, where truth and reality collide. Opinions on what is wrong with public education vary. Don't Blame the Messenger is written by a teacher who knows how it really is.

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