Rexford Brown

Broschiertes Buch

It's Your Fault

An Insider's Guide to Learning and Teaching in City Schools

Beschreibung

It's Your Fault! is a personal, humorous, and often irreverent portrait of urban schooling by a prominent writer and policy analyst who quit his cushy job to create and teach in an inner-city middle/high school. Rex Brown's searing collection of personal essays gets to the very heart of what it's really like inside urban schools in America. Packed with good ideas, interesting insights, and serious surprises, each essay spotlights a different topic and is narrated in a different voice: * "Annie" follows the experiences of a developmentally disabled student and her parents as they struggle with schools, the medical community, and the special education system. * "Full Moon Over Middle School" captures all the craziness of an urban middle school as if it happened in a single day. * "Serving Time" examines the uses and misuses of time, including practical ideas to help schools and teachers become more effective at helping kids learn. * "It's Your Fault!" is a no-holds-barred scolding of everyone involved in schooling, including parents, students, teachers, and administrators. * "On Leading, Misleading, and Unleading" is a personal look at the perils and satisfactions of visionary leadership in an age of great ambivalence toward leaders.

Autor

Rexford G. Brown is a retired teacher, principal, founding Executive Director, and Chairman Emeritus of Urban Learning Communities, Inc./P.S. 1 Charter School in Colorado and a former education policy analyst, education researcher, and Senior Fellow at The Education Commission of the States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Teachers College Press
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780807743799
• ISBN-10: 0807743798
• Artikelnr.: 21185468