Synopses & Reviews
Why teachers are so secretive, even protective, about the conditions in which they work is top on veteran teacher Susan Ohanian's list of concerns. There is nothing secretive about Ohanian. This collection of her writings, many of which were gleaned from leading publications such as
Phi Delta Kappan and
USA Today, attests to that. If you ask for permission to speak up, she says, you are doomed. But if you write about your classroom-about the texts and traditions, about the administrators who annoy you and the texts that block you, your public words will provide a protective shield. Based on Ohanian's twenty years as classroom teacher, consultant, journalist, and observer of the education scene in the U.S., the essays will anger, confirm, delight, and inspire.
Just about any teacher, regardless of grade level, will find familiar the scenarios, contretemps, ironies, and kids Ohanian details.
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Review
In this collection of provocative essays, longtime teacher and author Susan Ohanian takes on the educational establishment with such a disarming combination of fury, glee, and impishness that we're always engaged even if we sometimes disagree. She's an equal opportunity gadfly-educators on all sides of an issue get it between the eyes.Teacher Magazine
Synopsis
Why teachers are so secretive, even protective, about the conditions in which they work is top on veteran teacher Susan Ohanian's list of concerns.
About the Author
SUSAN OHANIAN is a longtime teacher and free-lance writer whose articles have appeared in periodicals ranging from the Atlantic and Washington Monthly to Phi Delta Kappan and Education Week. Visit www.susanohanian.org for a wealth of information on education issues and to learn more about Susan Ohanian. You'll find commentary, cartoons, letters, resources, quotes and a word of the day offering children a provocative way to increase their vocabulary. Her email address is:
[email protected].
Table of Contents
Teaching
Stacks of Letters
Love, Leslie
The Tantalizing Vagueness of Teaching
Collaboration, Silence, and Solitude
Notes on Japan from an American Schoolteacher
Learning
P. L. 94-142: Mainstream or Quicksand?
To "Pete," Who's Lost in the Mainstream
Question of the Day
Will You Recognize the Ready Moment?
Okay to Be Different
Curriculum Choices Tough and Easy
To Hell with Rip Van Winkle
Reading for What?
Smuggling Reading into the Reading Program
When the Reading Experts Gather, What's Their Real Agenda?
Beware the Rosy View!
How Today's Software Can Zap Kids' Desire to Read
Who's Afraid of Old Mother Hubbard?
Ruffles and Flourishes
A Plea for More Disorderliness
Literature Has No Uses
Hierarchies or Who's in Charge?
The Paper Chase
There's Only One True Technique for Good Discipline
"Yes, but Where Are Your Credits in Recess Management 101?"
Achievement Test Scores: Facts That Distort the Truth
Huffing and Puffing and Blowing Schools Excellent
On Stir-and-Serve Recipes for Teaching
'Just the Facts, Ma'am': Tests vs. Intuition
Not-So-Super Superintendents
What Makes Whittle Qualified to Do High School TV News?
Inside Classroom Structures
Behavioral Objective. Envoi: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Mastery Learning