Books by Tony Wagner and Complete Book Reviews
Tony Wagner, Author, Theodore Sizer, Foreword by Beacon Press (MA) $25 (291p) ISBN 978-0-8070-3108-7
This study of the ninth grade in three Boston-area high schools--two public, one private--presents an objective, behind-the-scenes view of the process of educational change. Much has been written about the need for reform of American pedogogy and...
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Tony Wagner, Author, Thomas Vander Ark, Foreword by . Routledge $22.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-415-92769-7
Decades of school reform efforts have led only to the consensus that American education needs improvement. The problem, Wagner argues, is that people are confused about what's really wrong with public schools. Worse, many of the accountability...
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Tony Wagner. Viking, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-56187-3
In this earnest memoir, Wagner (Creating Innovators) shares the school experiences that compelled him to teach high school. Wagner writes of being expelled from high school and dropping out of two colleges in the early 1960s before enrolling in the...
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