From Public Agenda, a report on Teaching for a Living: How Teachers See the Profession Today. Who needs mathematicians for math, anyway? The ed schools' pedagogy adds up to trouble. Skewed perspective: What we know about teacher preparation at elite education schools. Grade the teachers: A way to improve schools, one instructor at a time. From CT, a review of Homeschool: An American History by Milton Gaither; a review of Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik by Chester E. Finn, Jr.; The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need — And What We Can Do About It by Tony Wagner; and The Street Stops Here: A Year at a Catholic High School in Harlem by Patrick McCloskey. From Education Review, a review of So Much Reform, So Little

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