Why Is American Teaching So Bad?

In the NYRB one finds again a very interesting review about some books on Teaching in the US:

Why Is American Teaching So Bad?
Jonathan Zimmerman, NYRB, December 4, 2014 Issue

• The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession
  by Dana Goldstein
  Doubleday, 349 pp., $26.95
• Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone)
  by Elizabeth Green
  Norton, 372 pp., $27.95
• Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher
  by Garret Keizer
  Metropolitan, 302 pp., $27.00