It's Your Fault: An Insider's Guide to Learning and Teaching in City Schools - Softcover

Brown, Rexford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807743798 ISBN 13: 9780807743799

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2003

Synopsis

It’s Your Fault! is a personal, humorous, and often irreverent portrait of urban schooling by a prominent writer and policy analyst who quit his cushy job to create and teach in an inner-city middle/high school. Rex Brown’s searing collection of personal essays gets to the very heart of what it’s really like inside urban schools in America. Packed with good ideas, interesting insights, and serious surprises, each essay spotlights a different topic and is narrated in a different voice:

• “Annie” follows the experiences of a developmentally disabled student and her parents as they struggle with schools, the medical community, and the special education system.
• “Full Moon Over Middle School” captures all the craziness of an urban middle school as if it happened in a single day.
• “Serving Time” examines the uses and misuses of time, including practical ideas to help schools and teachers become more effective at helping kids learn.
• “It’s Your Fault!” is a no-holds-barred scolding of everyone involved in schooling, including parents, students, teachers, and administrators.
• “On Leading, Misleading, and Unleading” is a personal look at the perils and satisfactions of visionary leadership in an age of great ambivalence toward leaders.

About this title

About the Author

Rexford G. Brown is a retired teacher, principal, founding Executive Director, and Chairman Emeritus of Urban Learning Communities, Inc./P.S. 1 Charter School in Colorado and a former education policy analyst, education researcher, and Senior Fellow at The Education Commission of the States.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807743798
• ISBN 13: 9780807743799
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168