What Only Teachers Know about Education

Keen Babbage has been involved in education for 24 years as a teacher and administrator at the middle school and high school levels. He has also taught graduate school classes and written 8 other books about education.

• Chapter 1 The Classroom Reality: Listen to TeachersChapter 2 The Issue: I don't See How You Do ThatChapter 3 The Frustrations of Reform After Reform After ReformChapter 4 The Partial DivideChapter 5 The Massive DivideChapter 6 Today's Reality: Have You Been in a Classroom Recently?Chapter 7 What Is To Be Done?Chapter 8 Lessons Learned

We can always count on Dr. Keen Babbage to distill complex, often perplexing notions about education reform into the simplest of denominators. In his latest book, Dr. Babbage begs us simply to "Listen to teachers." He supports this charge with example after example of common sense, practical ideas and concerns shared by today's teachers - our voices from the classroom. Every school administrator should hear and then commit to act upon the messages that teachers have to share. We need to develop a system that relies on teacher input, along with input from our students, their families, and the larger community. When taken holistically, with supporting data, those messages inform our practice better than virtually any other measure.