Bruce J. Gevirtzman

Audacious Cures for America's Ailing Schools (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The problems in our nation's schools, and the cures for those problems, have been mired in confusion, innuendo, and deception. It is time someone separated the truths about our schools from the lies. Now retired from education, and finally free to speak up, veteran high school teacher Bruce J. Gevirtzman reveals his shocking ideas for fixing our public schools. Providing an in-depth analysis of the causes of problems in our schools, Gevirtzman uncovers information that most of our leaders and many of our educators don't want you to know about, and here he tells all. What's more, he proposes a number of suggestions supported by both empirical and academic research to solve these problems, even though many educators and politicians continue to be ignorant of their potential. Sometimes disconcerting, often funny, and always enlightening, Audacious Cures for America's Ailing Schools takes us on a journey to education reform that works.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610484169
• Artikelnr.: 37959180

Autorenporträt

Bruce J. Gevirtzman has been in public education as an English teacher, theater director, and high school baseball coach for nearly four decades. The last ten years he has taught public speaking at California State University Fullerton. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, Shaking Hands with Aliens: An Intimate Understanding of America's Teenagers

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Waiting For Scooper Man: Fall Guys, Scapegoats, and Truths
Chapter 1. Children in Purgatory
Chapter 2. The Devil's Contract
Chapter 3. Joel Gray's Anatomy
Chapter 4. Putting Their Money Where Our Mouths Are
Chapter 5. Breathing: The Lost Art
Chapter 6. Solving Suffocation
Chapter 7. Those Who Can't Do Teach-and Those Who Can't Teach Shouldn't
Teach
Chapter 8. Giveth Gelt, Taketh Tenure
Chapter 9. They Baby-Sit Our Children, Don't They?
Chapter 10. Doing What Schools Do
Chapter 11. My God! These Children Are Going to Breed!
Chapter 12. Walking Like a Duck and Quacking Like a Duck No More
Chapter 13. From Nine to Three-Not the Drink For Me
Chapter 14. Bryan's Bong
Chapter 15. No Child's Tanned Behind
Chapter 16. Like Dirty Harry
Chapter 17. Gorilla!
Chapter 18. Resting Their Middle Fingers