Stupidity and Tears: Teaching and Learning in Troubled Times

by Kohl, Herbert R.
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ISBN: 9781565848511
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In Stupidity and Tears, renowned educator and National Book Award winner Herbert Kohl offers us a thoughtful and ultimately optimistic meditation on the forces that conspire to keep teachers and students "stupid"--i.e., frustrated and unable to excel in an education system that is clearly failing them.

Among the topics explored by Kohl are the pressures of standards based assessments and harrowing sink-or-swim policies, the pain teachers feel when asked to teach against their pedagogical conscience, the development of a capacity to sense how students perceive the world, and the importance of hope and creativity in strengthening the social imagination of students and teachers.

A rousing call for common sense in the face of dwindling budgets, crippling state mandates, and injudicious politics, Stupidity and Tears is "vintage Kohl--incisive, funny, reflective, profound . . . a provocation to educators to better teach all our children" (Norman Fruchter, NYU Institute of Education and Social Policy).


  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Kohl, Herbert R.
  • ISBN: 9781565848511
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.26 x 0.74
  • Number Of Pages: 160
  • Publication Year: 2004

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