The teacher wars : a history of America's most embattled profession / Dana Goldstein.
The teacher wars : a history of America's most embattled profession / Dana Goldstein.
The teacher wars : a history of America's most embattled profession / Dana Goldstein.
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Publisher
New York : Doubleday, [2014]
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G 2015/1474
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Language
English
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Physical content
349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
"Missionary teachers": The common schools movement and the feminization of American teaching -- "Repressed indignation": The feminist challenge to American education -- "No shirking, no skulking": Black teachers and racial uplift after the Civil War -- "School ma'ams as lobbyists": The birth of teac...
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Publisher
New York : Doubleday, [2014]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2014]
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Summary
"A brilliant young scholar's history of 175 years of teaching in America shows that teachers have always borne the brunt of shifting, often impossible expectations. In other nations, public schools are one thread in a quilt that includes free universal childcare, health care, and job training. Here, schools are the whole cloth. Today we look around...
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The teacher wars : a history of America's most embattled profession / Dana Goldstein.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-323) and index.
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G 2015/1474
Record Identifier
74VKO06wzyAg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKO06wzyAg
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ISBN
038553695X (hardback)
9780385536950 (hardback)
DDC
371.1020973
MMS ID
991022627279702626
