Confessions of a bad teacher: the shocking truth from the front lines of American public education

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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Good-Bye Too Soon; Chapter 2: The Almighty Principal; Chapter 3: Meet the Teachers; Chapter 4: My Students and Me; Chapter 5: The Rules; Chapter 6: Classroom Management; Chapter 7: What Has Four Wheels and Flies?; Chapter 8: Not High School as You Remember It; Chapter 9: Teaching, Step by Step; Chapter 10: Bad Moves; Chapter 11: Judgment Daze; Chapter 12: Cheaters' Paradise; Chapter 13: What I Learned; Chapter 14: What We Can Do; Epilogue; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Back Cover.;An explosive new look at the pressures on today's teachers and a call-to-action for real education reform When John Owens left a lucrative publishing job to teach English at a public school in New York City's South Bronx, he thought he could do some good. Instead, he found an educational maelstrom that robs students of real learning to improve the school's statistics at any cost, even demonizing its own support system: the teachers. Using first-hand accounts from teachers across the U.S., Confessions of a Bad Teacher is an eye-opening look at the dire state.