Building a Better Teacher : How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone) (CD-Audio)

from rivkat

This is a book at war with itself. It wants to believe that charter schools are committed to improving education (and not to dumping students who don't do well with their formats, as public schools can't do, and to producing investor returns), but its own story is about how the basic thrust of th...

from benuathanasia

Disappointing. It spends hours (I read the audiobook) building up a particular education style as being the end-all be-all in educational perfection, only to tear it apart at the last moment without offering too much on how to improve upon it. The Japanese style/culture of education is the only o...

from Susan.Macura

As a future teacher I mistakenly thought this book could offer some insights into how teaching works and how everyone could learn to be a better teacher. After all, this is how the book was promoted - see its cover. I read it, but wish I had not wasted my time. I got nothing out of it.

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A clear, readable history of US teaching reform since the mid-20th century. A candid look at efforts such as charter schools, TFA, accountability, No Child Left Behind, and Common Core. A discussion of the Japanese jugyokenkyu process, and the way that the Japanese made the American reform of NCT...