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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education that brings the lessons of the past to bear on the dilemmas we face today - and brilliantly illuminates the path forward for public schools. "[A] lively account." - New York Times Book ReviewIn The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been embattled for nearly two centuries. She uncovers the surprising roots of hot button issues, from teacher tenure to charter schools, and finds that recent popular ideas to improve schools - instituting merit pay, evaluating teachers by student test scores, ranking and firing veteran teachers, and recruiting "elite" graduates to teach - are all approaches that have been tried in the past without producing widespread change.
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Dana Goldstein is a journalist and the author of the New York Times bestseller "The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession." She contributes to The Marshall Project, Slate, The New Republic, The Atlantic, the Times, and many other publications. She has received a Schwartz fellowship from the New America Foundation, a Spencer Foundation fellowship from Columbia University, and a Puffin fellowship from the Nation Institute. She is a two-time finalist for the Livingston Award, which honors outstanding reporting by journalists under the age of 35. She lives in New York City. More at danagoldstein.com.
