The Influence of Teachers: Reflections on Teaching and Leadership
"Anyone seriously interested in school reform should read this book."--Christopher Cerf, co-creator, Between the Lions (PBS), & 2010 McGraw Prize in Education recipient"'Must' reading for policymakers and practitioners alike." --Tony Wagner, Innovation Education Fellow, Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, and author of The Global Achievement Gap"A stunningly balanced and penetrating analysis of our schools and the challenges we face in fixing them."--John Seely Brown, author of A New Culture of Learning & former Director of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)"A truly interesting and thought-provoking book that raises all the important questions and also points to some answers."  --Dorothy Stoneman, Founder of Youthbuild"No one has tracked [public education's] decline and the struggle to reverse it with more zeal or a clearer mind than John Merrow." --Robert MacNeil, author of Wordstruck & former anchor, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour