Passionate Teaching in Troubled Times: Lessons for Today's Classroom

“A deeply felt meditation on the vital role of passion in good teaching”-with useful samples, interviews, and advice (Anthony Rotundo, The Washington Post)

Every teacher can be a passionate teacher-one who engages young people in the excitement of learning and ideas-if teaching is not undermined by the ways we "do business" in schools. In this book, a professor draws on the voices and firsthand accounts of teachers in urban, rural, and suburban classrooms to provide educators everywhere wit...