Teachbad’s Secret Project | Mr. Teachbad

Teachbad’s Secret Project | Mr. Teachbad:

Teachbad’s Secret Project

by teachbad

For all the right rea­sons, I am try­ing to write a book about teach­ing in the mod­ern era. I’ve been work­ing on it for a long time and now it’s get­ting a lit­tle more seri­ous. I don’t have any­thing to post because I’ve been work­ing on that, so I’m going to give you a lit­tle taste of the book proposal.

This is the first page; where I must grab a publisher’s atten­tion so com­pletely that she is com­pelled to read the sec­ond page. See what you think. (Maybe add a com­ment about what a great idea this book is and how you know at least 10,000 peo­ple who you’re sure would buy it.)

Teach­bad Book Pro­posal: Page One

Teach­ing and edu­ca­tion are under­go­ing a series of rad­i­cal, poorly-implemented and log­i­cally inco­her­ent struc­tural reforms. Well-intentioned, but hav­ing failed on all counts and by their own mea­sures, more than a decade of reforms are now sus­tained by polit­i­cal power, cor­po­rate money, wish­ful think­ing and iner­tia. Intended to fix edu­ca­tion, they are harm­ing both stu­dents and teach­ers; two groups whose fates are inter­twined and together make or break