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Hugging the Middle--How Teachers Teach in an Era of Testing and Accountability
Contributor(s): Cuban, Larry (Author)
ISBN: 0807749354     ISBN-13: 9780807749357
Publisher: Teachers College Press
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Published: January 2009
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Annotation: Larry Cubans How Teachers Taught has been widely acclaimed as a pathbreaking text on the history and evolution of classroom teaching. Now Cuban brings his great experience as a classroom teacher, superintendent, and researcher to this highly anticipated follow-up to his groundbreaking work. Focusing on three diverse school districts (Arlington, Virginia; Denver, Colorado; Oakland, California), Hugging the Middle offers an incisive portrayal of how teachers teach now. It is a revealing look at a range of current, workable pedagogical options educators are using to engage students while satisfying parents and policymakersoptions that succeed by creating hybrid practices that combine both teacher-centered approaches (e.g., mostly direct instruction, textbooks, lectures) with student-centered ones (e.g., team projects on real-world problems, independent learning, small-groupwork). This book serves as a state-of-the-profession assessment in an era of top-down educational policy.
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - General
- Education | Testing & Measurement
- Education | Educational Policy & Reform
Dewey: 371.1
LCCN: 2008041076
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.1" W x 8.8" (0.35 lbs) 112 pages
 
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Larry Cuban's How Teachers Taught has been widely acclaimed as a pathbreaking text on the history and evolution of classroom teaching. Now Cuban brings his great experience as a classroom teacher, superintendent, and researcher to this highly anticipated follow-up. Focusing on three diverse school districts (Arlington, Virginia; Denver, Colorado; Oakland, California), Hugging the Middle offers an incisive portrayal of how teachers teach now. It is a revealing look at a range of current, workable pedagogical options educators are using to engage students while satisfying parents and policymakers--options that succeed by creating hybrid practices that combine both teacher-centered approaches (e.g., mostly direct instruction, textbooks, lectures) with student-centered ones (e.g., team projects on real-world problems, independent learning, small-group work).

A state-of-the-profession assessment in this era of top-down educational policy, Hugging the Middle:

  • Brings Larry Cuban's years of experience and keen historian's eye to an analysis of teaching today.
  • Looks at teachers' continuing adaptations to standards-based education reform and the No Child Left Behind Act.
  • Compares classroom practices in a cross section of U.S. urban schools.
  • Gauges the impact of technology (or lack thereof) in the contemporary classroom.

Praise for Larry Cuban's classic How Teachers Taught :

How Teachers Taught is one of the most important books on educational history in years and one that has considerable implications for improving the practice of teaching. --Michael W. Sedlak, Book Review, The Elementary School Journal, Vol. 86, No. 2 (Nov., 1985)