Books: Inside The $4B Substitute Teaching Industry
Want to know what education is really about? Hint: it's not innovation, or policy, or even curriculum. Most days in most places it's about getting through the day, which means class coverage, which means absent teachers and robo-called substitutes -- complete strangers-- coming into your building every day teaching everything from chemistry to PE (if you still have PE).
With that in mind, here's a relatively new education book I hadn't heard of before (and maybe you hadn't either): Sub Culture, in which Carolyn Bucior examines the life of a substitute teacher and the 500,000 person / $4B per year substitute teaching industry: "A quirky profession where many employees receive no training, are given enormous responsibilities,
