Stupidity And Tears

A call to action against troubled public education systems cites practices that victimize students and teachers, assessing current methods that enforce "sink-or-swim" mentalities, force teachers to work against their consciences, and compromise creativity and intellectual development, in a meditative analysis that addresses specific challenges within such areas as educational budgets, state standards, and injudicious politics. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

A call to arms against the increasingly hostile climate of public education, hailed by Bill Ayers as "a wise and measured handbook for the struggle ahead." In Stupidity and Tears, renowned educator and National Book Award winner Herbert Kohl offers us a thoughtful and ultimately optimistic meditation on the forces that conspire to keep teachers and students "stupid"i.e., frustrated and unable to excel in an education system that is clearly failing them. Among the topics explored by Kohl are the pressures of standards-based assessments and harrowing sink-or-swim policies, the pain teachers feel when asked to teach against their pedagogical conscience, the development of a capacity to sense how students perceive the world, and the importance of hope and creativity in strengthening the social imagination of students and teachers. A rousing call for common sense in the face of dwindling budgets, crippling state mandates, and injudicious politics, Stupidity and Tears is "vintage Kohlincisive, funny, reflective, profound...a provocation to educators to better teach all our children" (Norman Fruchter, NYU Institute of Education and Social Policy).

General

ISBN		9781565849822
Fiction/Non-Fiction		Non-Fiction
Publisher		New Pr
Pages		160
List Price		$14.95
Author		Kohl, Herbert R.
Publication Date		08/01/2005
Release Status		In Print
Format		Paperback
Language		English
Measurements		Height: 8 Inches (US) Width: 5.5 Inches (US) Thickness: 0.5 Inches (US) Unit Weight: 0.5 Pounds (US)