Addicted To Reform A Twelve-Step Program To Rescue Public Education: A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education - Hardcover

Merrow, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1620972417 ISBN 13: 9781620972410

Publisher: The New Press, 2017

Synopsis

During his four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on topics including America's obsession with standardized testing, the low standards of many teacher-training institutions, how corporate greed created an epidemic of attention deficit disorder, and Michelle Rhee's indifference to cheating in Washington, D.C. Along the way, he taught in high school, a historically black college, and a federal penitentiary. Now, the revered education correspondent of PBS NewsHour distills his best thinking on American public education into a 'twelve-step' approach to fixing a K-12 system that Merrow describes as being 'addicted to reform' but unwilling to address the real issue: schools that are inappropriate for the twenty-first century. Covering topics from how to turn digital natives into digital citizens to why it should be harder to become a teacher but easier to be one, the twelve smart chapters in this book - inc

About this title

About the Author

John Merrow recently retired as education correspondent for the PBS NewsHour. He founded and until 2015 was the president of Learning Matters, a nonprofit media company. In 2012 Merrow became the first journalist to win the prestigious McGraw Prize in Education. He lives with his wife in New York City and his books include Addicted to Reform (The New Press), Choosing Excellence, Declining by Degrees, and The Influence of Teachers.

Edition details

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1620972417
• ISBN 13: 9781620972410
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224