Description: In Blaming Teachers, Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz reveals that historical professionalization reforms subverted public school teachers' professional legitimacy. Policymakers and school leaders understood teacher professionalization initiatives as efficient ways to bolster the bureaucratic order of the schools rather than as means to amplify teachers' authority and credibility.
Review Quotes: "There is a lot of life to this book, which is full of many terrific narratives that are engaging, often astounding, and some almost comical. It's easy to 'blame teachers' and this excellently researched book offers a way to work through that problem."--Kate Rousmaniere "author of The Principal's Office: A Social History of the American School Principal"