I our classrooms or twenty years ago. Neither can I explain why troubled student seem to turn frequently to violence. Experts from all fields seem to disagree when they discuss these concerns. In what for me has become a troubling point, some people are quick to lay the blame on teachers. But I can say with a great deal of personal confidence that the fault does not lay with American teachers.
Teachers are overworked and underpaid, and they often are under appreciated.
But they are not the problem in education. If anything, they will become the solution. As a student, teacher, and administrator, I have been involved with American education in public and private institutions for more than forty years. Today I am a college teacher, but I spend a great deal of time in elementary and secondary classrooms as part of my work in history education. My wife is a second-grade teacher.