Earlier this year, former Joplin, Missouri classroom teacher Randy
Turner struck a chord with teachers across the United States in a
Huffington Post essay in which he recommended that young people not
become classroom teachers. That essay, which received more than
180,000 Facebook likes and was shared more than 50,000 times, is
included in Let Teachers Teach, a collection of Turner's essays on
today's education, his own teaching, and colleagues and students
who have touched his life. In Let Teachers Teach, Turner, a former
newspaper reporter and editor, offers his first collection of
essays detailing the problems in American education and most of
those problems, he says, start with those who are needlessly trying
to reform it. Turner addresses the attacks made on teachers, the
billionaire reformers, teaching to the test, and the lies that are
told to make discipline statistics look better. The book also
features Turner's essays on a former student's suicide, tributes to
a fired principal and an inspirational teacher, and his writing on
the May 22, 2011, Joplin Tornado and its effect and on his school
and his teaching. The collection also includes Turner's updates on
several of the essays. The book is Turner's sixth non-fiction work,
following The Turner Report, Newspaper Days, 5:41: Stories from the
Joplin Tornado, Spirit of Hope: The Year After the Joplin Tornado,
and Scars from the Tornado: One Year at Joplin East Middle School.
He has also written three novels.
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