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Testing Education
- Author
- Kathy Greeley
- Narrator
- Suzie Althens
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 8 April 2024
- Run Time
- 14 hours 57 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In Testing Education, Kathy Greeley recounts the impact of education reform from a teacher's point of view. Based on a teaching career ranging nearly forty years, Greeley details how schools went from learning communities infused with excitement, intellectual stimulation, and joy to sterile spaces of stress, intimidation, and fear. In this ultimately hopeful memoir, Greeley asks us to learn from the past to reimagine the future of public education.
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- Author
- Kathy Greeley
- Narrator
- Suzie Althens
- Duration
- 14 hours 57 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 April 2024
- ISBN
- 9798855529463
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Biography: general, Education, Curriculum planning and development, Educational strategies and policy
Synopsis
Since the 2002 implementation of No Child Left Behind, the American public education system has been fundamentally changed. Excessive testing, standardized curriculums, destructive demands on children, corporate-style evaluations, and top-down mandates have become the norm. In response, record numbers of demoralized educators have quit, and millions of students have been left educationally impoverished. This troubling transformation has been exhaustively critiqued by scholars and commentators. Yet one crucial voice has been missing.In Testing Education, Kathy Greeley recounts the impact of education reform from a teacher's point of view. Based on a teaching career ranging nearly forty years, Greeley details how schools went from learning communities infused with excitement, intellectual stimulation, and joy to sterile spaces of stress, intimidation, and fear. In this ultimately hopeful memoir, Greeley asks us to learn from the past to reimagine the future of public education.
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