Böcker av Clair Berube

Examines American societal structures and institutions, beginning and ending with public education, and exposes how dysfunction and the investment in this dysfunction is a political agenda. The book focuses on the capitalization, privatization and dismantling of public education, and how other social systems are all co-dependent and symbiotic.

Educators are ideologically in one of two camps: those who see American education as heading in the right direction, and those who fear that it has gone astray. This book was born of a science teacher's frustration brought on by the standardized testing movement's reliance on high-stakes tests as the sole measurement tool to measure achievement.

Uncovers the aspects of teaching that are so hard to measure and quantify, and explores why some teachers have that ""X"" factor. This is achieved by interviewing people who are either current or retired teachers, or who were positively affected by a teacher.