Peter Sacks

Auteur de Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America

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Peter Sacks is an author and social Critic who writes and speaks extensively on education and American culture. He is author of standardized Minds: The High price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change It and generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in afficher plus postmodern America. His essays have appeared in the Nation, the Los Angeles times, the New York Times, and other Publications. afficher moins

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Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America (1999) 76 exemplaires

Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change It (2000) 75 exemplaires

Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education (2007) 35 exemplaires

Promised Lands (1990) 14 exemplaires

Natal Command (Phoenix Poets Series) (1997) 10 exemplaires

O Wheel: Poems (2000) 8 exemplaires

Necessity: Poems (2002) 4 exemplaires

Peter Sacks. Paintings. October 29 - December 12 (2009) 2 exemplaires

"You Only Guide Me by Surprise": Poetry and the Dolphin's Turn (The Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lecture on the… (2010) 1 exemplaire

Peter Sacks, New Works, April 5 - May 6, 2017 1 exemplaire

Peter Sacks: Works / Oeuvres, 2003 - 2006 1 exemplaire

Resistance (2022) 1 exemplaire

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Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account… par Peter Sacks

journalist takes up community college teaching, discovers students who expect easy grades and entrtainment. Ties to post modernism

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ritaer | Jun 8, 2021 |

Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide… par Peter Sacks

The book uses interviews, vivid portraits, and statistics to analyze the ways public schools advantage the already advantaged and do a disservice to working and lower class students; moreover, it tells us a lot about the students who attend our college. Alexis N.

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SFCC | Jun 2, 2010 |

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