We Don't Need Another Hero: Struggle, Hope, and Possibility in the Age of High-Stakes Schooling

by Gregory Michie

Book Overview

In his latest book, bestselling author Gregory Michie critiques high-stakes schooling and provides a powerful alternative vision of teaching as a humanistic enterprise, students as multidimensional beings, and schools as spaces where young people can imagine and become, not just "achieve." Drawing on his experiences over the past two decades as a classroom teacher, community volunteer, researcher, and teacher educator in Chicago's public schools,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807753505
• ISBN13: 9780807753507
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"