John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018)
Forfatter af Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Om forfatteren
John Taylor Gatto is a renowned speaker who lectures widely all over the world on school reform. He taught for 30 years in public schools before resigning on the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal during the year he was named New York State's official Teacher of the Year. His previous book, vis mere Dumbing Us Down has sold over 100,000 copies. vis mindre
Værker af John Taylor Gatto
The Underground History of American Education: A School Teacher's Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of… (2001) 481 eksemplarer
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling (2008) 413 eksemplarer
Educating Your Child in Modern Times: How to Raise an Intelligent, Sovereign & Ethical Human Being (2003) 26 eksemplarer
Emburrecimento Programado - O Curriculo Oculto Da Escolarizacao Obrigatoria (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2019) 11 eksemplarer
Beyond Schooling: Building Communities Where Learning Really Matters — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
Against Schools & The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling 2 eksemplarer
Oružja za masovno poučavanje : putovanje nastavnika kroz mračni svijet obveznog školovanja (2010) 2 eksemplarer
CD Do You Really Need to Go to College? 1 eksemplar
The Hall of Mirrors 1 eksemplar
Armas de instrucción masiva : el viaje de un profesor de escuela por el proceloso mundo de la enseñanza… (2016) 1 eksemplar
Aptallaştıran Eğitim 1 eksemplar
A Schooling is Not an Education (Cassette) 1 eksemplar
Passion-Driven Education: How to Use Your Child's Interests to Ignite a Lifelong Love of Learning 1 eksemplar
Keeping Appointments With Ourselves (Cassettes) 1 eksemplar
Absolute Absolution (Cassette) 1 eksemplar
What's Really Wrong With Our Schools? 1 eksemplar
Against School!!! 1 eksemplar
The Origins of Compulsory Education 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (2002) — Bidragyder — 978 eksemplarer
Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- Gatto, John Taylor
- Fødselsdato
- 1935-12-15
- Dødsdag
- 2018-10-25
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Monongahela, Pennsylvania, USA
- Dødssted
- New York City, New York, USA
- Bopæl
- Oxford, New York, USA
- Uddannelse
- Cornell University
University of Pittsburgh
Yeshiva University
Hunter College
Reed College
University of California, Berkeley
Medlemmer
Anmeldelser
Lister
Hæderspriser
Måske også interessante?
Associated Authors
Statistikker
- Værker
- 31
- Also by
- 1
- Medlemmer
- 2,835
- Popularitet
- #9,047
- Vurdering
- 4.0
- Anmeldelser
- 45
- ISBN
- 40
- Sprog
- 5
- Udvalgt
- 11
Here's one amazing fact:
"By 1940, literacy as a national number stood at 96 percent for whites, 80 percent for blacks. Four of five blacks were literate in spite of all disadvantages. Yet, six decades later, the Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress reported a 40 percent illiteracy rate among blacks -- doubling the earlier deficiency -- and a 17 percent rate for whites, more than quadrupling it. Yet money spent on schooling in real terms had grown 350 percent."
And don't blame the system on teachers:
"How many schoolteachers were aware of what they were actually a part of? Surely a number close to zero."
… (mere)