Title: Caught in the Middle
First published: January 18, 2001
Description: As one of the country's most outspoken critics of standards and testing, and a former inner-city teacher, Susan Ohanian is no stranger to the "f" word: failure. She often referred to it in her best-seller, One size fits few, to point out "the folly of educational standards." And now, in her follow-up book, Caught in the middle, it's the fulcrum upon which she dares to reveal what schools are really like when nonstandard kids and a standardized curriculum collide in the classroom. Although admitting to failure, Caught in the middle is not a downer. Hope shines through, and it comes, not from political initiatives or even from wonderful programs, but from individual interactions between teacher and students; it comes from matters of the heart. --From the publisher description.
Subjects: Lernpsychologie, Unterricht, Poor children, Reading (Middle school), Differenzierung, Children with social disabilities, Education, Language arts (Middle school), Reading (elementary), Language arts (elementary), Teaching - reading, Education - philosophy & social aspects, Teaching - language arts, Education - at-risk children, Elementary education