{"product_id":"9780615876344","title":"Teaching Lessons: Creating a Cultural Infrastructure for Great Schools","description":"America's Future Hinges on What We Do with Our Classrooms Today\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTomorrow's global economy belongs to innovators who can devise cutting-edge solutions for the needs of a complex, ever-changing world. Our children will not be among those bright minds—unless our educational system transforms its approach to learning. What will it take to create world-class schools whose graduates can compete at the vanguard of the worldwide market?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on his thirty-five years as a classroom teacher, Joseph Willis shows why our nation's schools are failing and why current educational reform is the problem, not the answer. There is an answer: We must change our cultural infrastructure to make learning and teaching a primary value. Teaching Lessons offers a fundamental change in how we view knowledge and learning in our society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeaching Lessons reveals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• how standardized testing ruins real, vital learning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• why educational policy and politics are a disastrous mix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• why we must refocus on the classroom as the hope for our children's—and our nation's—future\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf this book's insights disturb you, the solutions it proposes offer hope. There is a way forward. Our teachers have known it all along. So can you—and take steps to make it happen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Willis, Joseph A.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016295170288,"sku":"9780615876344","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780615876344_p0.jpg?v=1763600047","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780615876344","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}