{"product_id":"testing-education-a-teachers-memoir-9781625347831","title":"Testing Education: A Teacher's Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e Since the 2002 implementation of No Child Left Behind, the American public education system has been fundamentally changed. Excessive testing, standardized curriculums, destructive demands on children, corporate-­style evaluations, and top-­down mandates have become the norm. In response, record numbers of demoralized educators have quit, and millions of students have been left educationally impoverished. This troubling transformation has been exhaustively critiqued by scholars and commentators. Yet one crucial voice has been missing, until now. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eTesting Education\u003c\/i\u003e, Kathy Greeley recounts the impact of education reform from a teacher's point of view. Based on a teaching career spanning nearly forty years, Greeley details how schools went from learning communities infused with excitement, intellectual stimulation, and joy to sterile spaces of stress, intimidation, and fear. In this ultimately hopeful memoir, Greeley asks us to learn from the past to reimagine the future of public education. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e KATHY GREELEY is a retired educator from Cambridge and Boston public schools. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641308188946,"sku":"9781625347831","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_85af164f-530c-48b1-ad00-397c396cd70b.jpg?v=1733010937","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/testing-education-a-teachers-memoir-9781625347831","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}