The Values of American Teachers

How Teachers’ Values Help Stabilize Unsteady Democracy

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Robert Slater

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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 is neither the only nor the most important value they add. An analysis of 40 years of data on teachers suggests that an equally if not more important value added is their contribution to the stability of our increasingly unsteady democracy. Teachers help steady modern democracy by teaching children the limits of liberty and by cultivating the social virtues--trust, cooperation, helpfulness, and the like--upon which civil society depends. We need not only to recognize this but also to avoid education policies that undermine their willingness and ability to do so.

Author Biography:

Robert Slater holds a Master's degree from Harvard University and a PhD from the University of Chicago. A Senior Fulbright Scholar to Peru in 1996, and again to Bolivia 2010, his teaching, research and writing focuses on education and the vicissitudes of democracy. He is Professor of Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he directs the doctoral program in educational leadership and coordinates research development for the Cecil J. Picard Center.

Release date NZ

October 29th, 2013

Author

Robert Slater

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

138

Dimensions

158x239x15

ISBN-13

9781475800067

Product ID

21517651

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