Politics Aside: Our Children and Their Teachers in Score-Driven Times

This book is a "must read" for parents and teachers who are concerned about our current education policies and how they affect our youngest students. Lesley Koplow brings the experience of being a young child, a young child's parent, or a teacher of young children to life in an era when public elementary schools are besieged by pressure to "win the race". Anyone who wonders what happened to nurturing early childhood and early grade classrooms that stimulate the young child's curiosity, crea...