About this Event
About the Book
Since the 2002 implementation of No Child Left Behind, the American public education system has been fundamentally changed. Excessive testing, standardized curriculums, destructive demands on children, corporate-style evaluations, and top-down mandates have become the norm. In response, record numbers of demoralized educators have quit, and millions of students have been left educationally impoverished. This troubling transformation has been exhaustively critiqued by scholars and commentators. Yet one crucial voice has been missing, until now.
In Testing Education, Kathy Greeley recounts the impact of education reform from a teacher’s point of view. Based on a teaching career spanning nearly forty years, Greeley details how schools went from learning communities infused with excitement, intellectual stimulation, and joy to sterile spaces of stress, intimidation, and fear. In this ultimately hopeful memoir, Greeley asks us to learn from the past to reimagine the future of public education.
About the Author
Kathy Greeley is a retired educator from the Cambridge and Boston Public Schools. She worked for many years as a middle school humanities teacher, then as a district staff developer, a school-based administrator, and a literacy coach. She is also the author of two books: Why Fly That Way: Linking Community and Achievement (Teachers College Press, 2000) and the just released Testing Education: A Teacher's Memoir (University of Massachusetts, 2024). An active member of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, she serves on the Retired Members Committee and is deeply committed to maintaining our democracy and its foundation, public education. She lives in Cambridge, MA.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College Street, South Hadley, United States
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