{"product_id":"fear-and-learning-in-americabad-data-good-teachers-and-the-attack-on-public-education_9780807772775","title":"Fear and Learning in America—Bad Data, Good Teachers, and the Attack on Public Education","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“John Kuhn’s book is packed with more wisdom than any 10 books that I have read about American education. It is the wisdom born of experience. It is the wisdom of a man who cares about children, families, and community.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—From the Foreword by Diane Ravitch, author of Reign of Error \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this moving account, “America’s Superintendent” John Kuhn lays bare the scare tactics at the root of the modern school “reform” movement. Kuhn conveys a deeply held passion for the mission and promise of public education through his own experience as a school administrator in Texas. When his “Alamo Letter” first appeared in the Washington Post, it galvanized the educational community in a call to action that was impossible to ignore. This powerful book requires us to question whether the current education crisis will be judged by history as a legitimate national emergency or an agenda-driven panic, spurred on by a media that is, for the most part, uninterested in anything but useless soundbites. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEssential reading for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and everyone concerned with public education, Fear and Learning in America:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnalyzes school reform from the perspective of a practicing school administrator who isn’t sold on the corporate reform package. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlaces school reform in the historical context of similar episodes of national hand-wringing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffers encouragement and appreciation to classroom teachers who are exhausted by the vilification that modern school reform has served up.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapters:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. An Unlikely Activist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Scaring America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Standardized Junk Science\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Superteachers, Miracles, and Destructive Idealism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. The Educational Dark Ages I: Ignorance \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. The Educational Dark Ages II: Mendacity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Why We Don’t Fix Things\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Compounding Poverty with Inequity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. The Prescription has Failed\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Kuhn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43037253763174,"sku":"9780807772775","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/4051\/5174\/files\/9780807772775.jpg?v=1771505082","url":"https:\/\/www.tcpress.com\/products\/fear-and-learning-in-americabad-data-good-teachers-and-the-attack-on-public-education_9780807772775","provider":"Teachers College Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}