{"product_id":"getting-schooled-paperback","title":"Getting Schooled - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGarret Keizer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Keizer writes eloquently and perceptively . . . More than just thoughtful, reasonable, carefully observed, elegantly written, and deeply humane, this book is also that rare thing, a work of genuine wisdom.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching. The voices of the teachers themselves, however, are conspicuously missing. Defying the trend, teacher and writer Garret Keizer takes us to school in this arresting chronicle of his return to the same rural Vermont high school where he taught fourteen years ago. \u003cbr\u003e Much has changed since then-a former student is his principal, standardized testing is the reigning god, and smoking in the boys' room has been supplanted by texting in the boys' room. More familiar are the effects of poverty, the exuberance of youth, and the staggering workload that technology has done as much to increase as to lighten. At once fiercely critical and deeply contemplative, \u003ci\u003eGetting Schooled\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the obstacles that teachers face daily-and along the way takes aim at some cherished cant: that public education is doomed, that the heroic teacher is the cure for all that ails education, that educational reform can serve as a cheap substitute for societal reform.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGarret Keizer\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of\u003ci\u003e Privacy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Unwanted Sound of Everything\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWe Want\u003c\/i\u003e. A contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and a former Guggenheim Fellow, he has written for \u003ci\u003eLapham's Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. He lives in Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 28, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42720409747519,"sku":"9781250069382","price":28.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/88d5c2b6988e859531038a4074e309ff.webp?v=1765089048","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/getting-schooled-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}