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The Teachers: A Year Inside America’s Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
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81/100Scholars
Author:
Alexandra Robbins
Publisher:
Dutton
Date:
March 14, 2023
A year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what's really going on behind school doors.
What The Reviewers Say
Anyone contemplating going into teaching might be dissuaded after reading Alexandra Robbins’s latest work, The Teachers: A Year Inside America’s Most Vulnerable, Important Profession. That is not a disparagement of her book but rather a testament to its scope, accuracy and unflinching honesty. Never before have I read any work that so clearly depicts the current realities of teaching in America’s public schools, a subject I have followed closely as a recently retired teacher with 22 years of experience.
Robbins...dove deep into the lives of teachers and exposed the many flaws that have been hurting the teaching profession — even before the pandemic — and how it's gotten worse. The Teachers is engaging and impeccably researched, but it's also hard to read because it shows just how bad it's been for a while.
The Teachers is a call to action that as a nation, as communities, we owe our teachers much more than we are giving..
A deep dive.
