Getting schooled : the reeducation of an American teacher
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2014.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780805096439 (hardback), 0805096434 (hardback)
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Nonfiction
373 KEI
1 available
373 KEI
1 available
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Published
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780805096439 (hardback), 0805096434 (hardback)
Notes
Description
"In this powerful, eloquent story of his return to the classroom, a former teacher offers a rousing defense of his beleaguered vocation. Perhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching. The voices of the teachers themselves are conspicuously missing. Defying this trend, teacher and writer Garret Keizer takes us to school--literally--in this arresting account of his return to the same rural Vermont high school where he taught fourteen years ago. Much has changed since then--a former student is his principal, standardized testing is the reigning god, and smoking in the boys' room has been supplanted by texting in the boys' room. More familiar are the effects of poverty, the exuberance of youth, and the staggering workload that technology has done as much to increase as to lighten. Telling the story of Keizer's year in the classroom, Getting Schooled takes us everywhere a teacher might go: from field trips to school plays to town meetings, from a kid's eureka moment to a parent's dark night of the soul. At once fiercely critical and deeply contemplative, Keizer exposes the obstacles that teachers face daily--and along the way takes aim at some cherished cant: that public education is doomed, that the heroic teacher is the cure for all that ails education, that educational reform can serve as a cheap substitute for societal reformation. Angry, humorous, and always hopeful, Getting Schooled is as good an argument as we are likely to hear for a substantive reassessment of our schools and those who struggle in them"--,Provided by publisher.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Nonfiction | 373 KEI | Available |
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Hunterdon North County Branch - Adult Nonfiction | 371.1092 | Available |
Kinnelon Library - Adult Nonfiction | 373.11 KEIZER | Available |
Morris County Library - Adult Nonfiction | 373.11 KEI | Available |
Rockaway Township Library - Adult Nonfiction | 373.11 KEI | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Keizer, G. (2014). Getting schooled: the reeducation of an American teacher (First edition.). Metropolitan Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Keizer, Garret. 2014. Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher. Metropolitan Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Keizer, Garret. Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher Metropolitan Books, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Keizer, Garret. Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher First edition., Metropolitan Books, 2014.
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