Site moved to, redirecting in 1 second...  May 09, 2012   Out
from Doubleday on September 2, 2014! Available for pre-order
from Amazon and  A young scholar's history of 175 years of
teaching in America.  We often hear about how much more
prestigious the teaching profession is in other nations, like
Finland and South Korea. Dana Goldstein explains why this is the
case: Historically, American public school teaching developed as
an explicitly anti-intellectual, working class profession. Yet
at the same time that we paid public school teachers poorly,
policed their political activity, and prevented them from
influencing the curriculum, we asked them to eradicate poverty
and inequality—an impossible expectation.   In her lively,
character-driven history, Goldstein guides us through American
education's many passages, including the feminization of
teaching in the 1800s and the fateful growth of teachers unions,
and shows that the battles fought over nearly two centuries echo
the very dilemmas we confront today. The