The Teaching Gap Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom
- List Price: $24.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publish date: 08/01/1999
The Teaching Gap is a bold challenge to prevailing views of educational reform, which previously have focused on everything except how well or poorly teachers actually teach. Taking us inside dozens of randomly selected eighth grade classrooms in the U.S., Japan, and Germany, the authors reveal the unfulfilled promise of American teaching and document exactly how other countries have consistently stayed ahead of the teaching and learning curve. Nothing less than a "best practices" for teachers, the authors offer proof that how teachers teach is far more important than increased spending, state-of-the art facilities, mandatory homework, or special education. Until this message is heard, America cannot expect nor hope for an improvement in its children's school performance.
