What A Teacher's Memoir Teaches Us

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Sun, 09/21/2014 - 6:12am

Garret Keizer's new memoir Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher should be required reading for anyone with a child in an American public school. It should also be on the required list for anyone in school administration, anyone who will eventually have a child in public school, and anyone who has wondered why schools are so different today than they were 20 years ago.

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