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The teacher wars : a history of America's most embattled profession

text The teacher wars : a history of America's most embattled profession

Summary
A history of 175 years of teaching in America demonstrates 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, hea... Read more
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 W... Read more
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349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher
Doubleday 2014

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 371.1 GOL in Adult Non-fiction Available

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