Who's Teaching Your Children?: Why the Teacher Crisis Is Worse Than You Think and What Can Be Done About It
By Vivian Troen, Katherine C. Boles
Categories: Education & Teaching
Who's Teaching Your Children? (Yale University Press, 2003) by Vivian Troen and Katherine C. Boles argues that America's shortage of qualified teachers is getting worse. The authors, both classroom teachers, show how teachers are recruited from a weak candidate pool, poorly prepared and left isolated without mentoring, support or incentives, so that half quit within five years. They critique teacher training and propose the Millennium School, a model that restructures teachers' work to make teaching a true profession.
Recommended by 1 person
- Bill Gates: “Read (Aug 2011).”