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Arthur Levine is determined to see the teaching profession become stronger than ever. He is a firm believer in the training of teachers in a way that helps them in the classroom, practical methods of improving their abilities in communicating and instructing the students rather than having them toon meer take school administration-type courses. Levine was born on June 16, 1948, in New York City, the son of Meyer and Katherine (Kalman) Levine. He received his B.A. in Biology from Brandeis University in 1970 and then served as director of the Center for Undergraduate Curriculum Evaluation there and as a Boston public school substitute teacher. Lecture work at the State University of New York at Buffalo followed, along with a Ph.D. in 1976 from the same school. After finishing his education, Arthur Levine headed to the West Coast, serving as a senior fellow of the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education at the University of California-Berkeley for five years, followed by a two-year stint as senior fellow with the Carnegie Foundation. Levine moved full-scale into educational administration next, serving seven years as president of Bradford College in Massachusetts. Five years of serving as chair of the Institution of Education Management at Harvard University led to a post as president of Teachers College in New York City. Levine has found time throughout his education career to write such books as Why Innovation Fails (1980), Shaping Higher Education's Future (1989), and Higher Learning in America (1993). He married lawyer Linda C. Fentiman on August 18, 1974 and they raised two children, Jamie Sloan Fentiman and Rachel Elizabeth Fentiman. Arthur Levine finds writing tough but rewarding, and enjoys such activities as tennis and movies. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Officiële naam: Levine, Arthur E.
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten: 1948-06-16
Geslacht: male
Opleiding: Brandeis University (BA)
State University of New York, Buffalo (PhD)

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Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today's… door Arthur Levine

I gave this book two stars not because it was bad but because a lot of it is redundant. If you work in education, and you have been doing so for a while, you probably already know a lot of what has been written in this book. When I started reading it, my initial reaction was, "do we really need another book on the Millenial students and how different they are and how they have to be treated with kids' gloves because they have been coddled all their lives? How clueless can administrators and educators be on a topic that, to be honest, has been tossed around and dissected for a while now?" So, unless you have been living under a rock for a while, you can safely skim this book for the few good insights it has and move on to other things.

At times they can't even get their generational labels right, such as what is commonly agreed to be Generation X versus Generation Y for example (at least the sources they use for their definitions do not seem to be the best based on all the others I have seen and read, and I have read a lot in my line of work). I think at that point the authors were just grasping at labels to make the point that a generation is hard to label. Yes, we get it.

I did take some notes because I often found myself arguing with the authors or just plain wondering about some things. I will likely post those to my blog soon. However, for now, I will say the book is ok, but it is not great. The authors are drawing on a more recent study of undergraduates that covers them after the Great Recession of 2008, but again, it is stuff that we have heard before. A lot of it has already been on the news even. So, unless you really need a primer on this topic, you can probably skip this book. However if you do need a reminder, this may be a book for you.
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