John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018)
Autore di Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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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, mostra altro Dumbing Us Down has sold over 100,000 copies. mostra meno
Opere di John Taylor Gatto
The Underground History of American Education: A School Teacher's Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of… (2001) 482 copie
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling (2008) 415 copie
Educating Your Child in Modern Times: How to Raise an Intelligent, Sovereign & Ethical Human Being (2003) 26 copie
Emburrecimento Programado - O Curriculo Oculto Da Escolarizacao Obrigatoria (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2019) 11 copie
Beyond Schooling: Building Communities Where Learning Really Matters — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Oružja za masovno poučavanje : putovanje nastavnika kroz mračni svijet obveznog školovanja (2010) 2 copie
The Hall of Mirrors 1 copia
Armas de instrucción masiva : el viaje de un profesor de escuela por el proceloso mundo de la enseñanza… (2016) 1 copia
Aptallaştıran Eğitim 1 copia
Passion-Driven Education: How to Use Your Child's Interests to Ignite a Lifelong Love of Learning 1 copia
Absolute Absolution (Cassette) 1 copia
Against School!!! 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Gatto, John Taylor
- Data di nascita
- 1935-12-15
- Data di morte
- 2018-10-25
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Monongahela, Pennsylvania, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York City, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Oxford, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Cornell University
University of Pittsburgh
Yeshiva University
Hunter College
Reed College
University of California, Berkeley
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 31
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 2,844
- Popolarità
- #9,023
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 45
- ISBN
- 40
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 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."
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