David Laboree, professor of Education at Stanford, speaking about new book "The Trouble with Ed Schools"

Tuesday, January 25 @ 6PM - Stanford Bookstore Art Alcove

"The Trouble with Ed Schools" by David Laboree

American schools of education get little respect. They are portrayed as intellectual wastelands, as impractical and irrelevant, as the root cause of bad teaching and inadequate learning. In this book, a sociologist and historian of education examines the historical developments and contemporary factors that have resulted in the unenviable status of ed schools, offering valuable insights into the problems of these beleaguered institutions.

Throughout these discussions, Labaree maintains an ambivalent position about education schools-admiring their dedication and critiquing their mediocrity, their romantic rhetoric, and their compliant attitudes.

Labaree is a professor in the School of Education at Stanford University.