{"product_id":"empty-curriculum-sandra-stotsky-9781475815665","title":"Empty Curriculum: The Need to Reform Teacher Licensing Regulations and Tests","description":"Teachers cannot teach what they do not know. This country has tolerated a weak licensing system for prospective teachers for decades. This weak system has been accompanied by an increasingly emptier curriculum for most students, depriving them of the knowledge and skills needed for self-government. \u003cbr\u003eAn Empty Curriculum: How Teacher Licensure Tests Lead to Empty Student Minds makes the case that the complete revision of the licensing system for prospective and veteran teachers in Massachusetts in 2000 and the construction of new or more demanding teacher licensing tests contributed significantly to the Massachusetts \"education miracle.\" That \"miracle\" consisted of enduring gains in achievement for students in all demographic groups and in all regional vocational\/technical high schools since 2005--gains confirmed by tests independent of Massachusetts policy makers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sandra Stotsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1475815662\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781475815665\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Sandra Stotsky","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065623556351,"sku":"9781475815665","price":74.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ebfeb84e-9f44-4970-8a6c-e379b21477ed.jpg?v=1768676205","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/empty-curriculum-sandra-stotsky-9781475815665","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}