Dumbing us down : the hidden curriculum of compulsory schooling / John Taylor Gatto.
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- ISBN: 0865718547 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780865718548 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xxii, 121 pages : illustration
- Edition: 25th anniversary edition.
- Publisher: Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
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Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 14.99 |
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John Gatto was a schoolteacher for 30 years. He resigned in the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times upon receiving the New York State Teacher of the Year award. He has been a fierce advocate for self-directed "guerrilla" education for decades, and is also the author of Weapons of Mass Instruction and The Underground History of American Education .
Zachary Slayback is an entrepreneur, Ivy League dropout, and communicator, focusing on issues of education, innovation, and social change. He's the author of The End of School (2016) and a founding team member at Praxis, an apprenticeship program for young people looking for a real-world education.