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  • Published: 16 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9780807036679
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240
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"You Can't Fire the Bad Ones!"

And 18 Other Myths about Teachers, Teachers Unions, and Public Education




Overturns common misconceptions about charter schools, school "choice," standardized tests, common core curriculum, and teacher evaluations.

Three distinguished educators, scholars, and activists flip the script on many enduring and popular myths about teachers, teachers' unions, and education that permeate our culture. By unpacking these myths, and underscoring the necessity of strong and vital public schools as a common good, the authors challenge readers--whether parents, community members, policy makers, union activists, or educators themselves--to rethink their assumptions.

  • Published: 16 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9780807036679
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240
Categories:

About the authors

Bill Ayers

A longtime radical activist, BILL AYERS is a retired professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, formerly having held the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar. He is the founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society. Ayers is co-editor of Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiqués of the Weather Underground 1970-1974, and the author of fifteen books on teaching and children’s rights, as well the recent memoir Fugitive Days.