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They Always Test Us on Things We Havent Read: Teen Laments and Lessons Learned

They Always Test Us on Things We Havent Read: Teen Laments and Lessons Learned


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About the Book

This eminently readable book, poignant and humorous, quickly draws the reader into the scholastic world of high school students. Based on classroom observation and over 100 interviews, this study is a fascinating look at the challenges in getting middle-class adolescents to engage with their high school education.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Feeling Their Way Chapter 4 Coerced Chapter 5 Bothered Chapter 6 Bewildered Chapter 7 Two Pathogenic As-Ifs Chapter 8 Engaging the Disengaged (the requirement of recall, remediations) Chapter 9 Notes on Methodology (observations, interviews, analysis) Chapter 10 Afterword

About the Author :
Kathleen Waldron Gershman is Professor of Educational Foundations and Research at the University of North Dakota. Professor Gershman holds an Ed.D in Teaching, Curriculum, and Learning Environments from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Review :
[Gershman's ] observations have as much resonance for urban education as for the well-supported, orderly, 'beet field' schools of North Dakota...Gershman's book is well worth reading...She emphasizes a goal that many well-intentioned reformers often overlook-America's high schools should help children, not just measure them. -- Teachers College Record [Gershman's ] observations have as much resonance for urban education as for the well-supported, orderly, 'beet field' schools of North Dakota...Gershman's book is well worth reading...She emphasizes a goal that many well-intentioned reformers often overlook-America's high schools should help children, not just measure them. -- Teachers College Record


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780761829317
  • Publisher: University Press of America
  • Publisher Imprint: Hamilton Books
  • Height: 228 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Teen Laments and Lessons Learned
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0761829318
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 267 gr


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