{"product_id":"9781250069382","title":"Getting Schooled : The Reeducation of an American Teacher","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eGetting Schooled\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Garret Keizer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Beautiful.\u003cbr\u003e” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Keizer is one curmudgeon who can't be easily written off . . . \u003ci\u003eGetting Schooled\u003c\/i\u003e prickles with many sharp-toothed observations. This is one of those books in which you find yourself underlining something on nearly every page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e” —\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A graceful essayist . . . Keizer deflates the absurd  assumption of the accountability movement, which is that any  student-like any teacher-can succeed, if the correct  incentives are in place. . . . a fine book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“So much of what Keizer experienced in rural Vermont resonated with my own urban experiences. Every teacher will immediately recognize and enjoy his story. And all who wonder what reforms are needed should start by reading this book.” —\u003ci\u003eDeborah Meier, author of The Power of Their Ideas and In Schools We Trust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As thoughtful, honest, eloquent, humane, entertaining and useful an account of the complexities of teaching as anything I have seen in years.  Though Garret Keizer has wowed us in the past, this is, for my money, his best book.  It deserves to become a classic in the literature of American education.” —\u003ci\u003ePhillip Lopate, author of Being With Children\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most vital, beautiful, and human documents I have come across in years, from the finest essayist writing today--a book about the true depths of ordinary days and all that is at stake within our schools. But also about work and youth and advancing age, about resistance and pride and defeat and wit and good intentions. In short, everything, brilliantly knitted into the diary of a schoolteacher in a small northern town.” —\u003ci\u003eJeff Sharlet, author of Sweet Heaven When I Die\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“At once a sympathetic portrait of a school, a searing indictment of a culture that uses working-class children as cannon fodder, and, unexpectedly, a page-turner . . . Jonathan Kozol fans will have a new favorite.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Magnificent . . . The book's chief appeal is an overarching surfeit of wisdom and keen perspective . . . Required reading for anyone even remotely involved in education and those who love them.” —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal, (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Keizer is a sometimes-sardonic, sometimes-maudlin, always entertaining guide to contemporary high school atmospherics . . . A well-written, yearlong chronicle packed with humor, pathos and valued insights on nearly every page.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews, (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong-listed Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year (2014)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250069382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40627976634574,"sku":"9781250069382","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_9985e82c-db81-4bc3-b0f6-8c3ef3b425bd.jpg?v=1638753227","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250069382","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}