The Values of American Teachers: How Teachers' Values Help Stabilize Unsteady Democracy

by Robert Slater

Book Overview

Education today is increasingly focused on tests and testing. Teachers are being judged on how much they can increase test scores from one year to the next. These year-to-year gains in scores are part of a "value-added" approach to teacher evaluation, and value-added teacher assessment is all the rage now. A main point of this book is that while teachers do add value when they enable students to increase their performance on standardized tests, this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475800061
• ISBN13: 9781475800067
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: R & L Education
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"