PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mayse, Kathleen
TI  - It Wasn't Easy to Get Here
AID  - 10.17763/haer.79.2.p831407282652637
DP  - 2009 Jul 01
TA  - Harvard Educational Review
PG  - 301--306
VI  - 79
IP  - 2
4099  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/79/2/301.short
4100  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/79/2/301.full
SO  - herp2009 Jul 01; 79
AB  - Reflecting on her experiences as a teacher in Texas, Kathleen Mayse critiques the context of a super-testing culture and makes an appeal to President Obama to lead us in a new educational direction. She argues for an approach that embraces and utilizes the knowledge of the real experts in the field—teachers—and recognizes the importance of the relationships teachers build with their students. Through understanding the practices of master teachers, she tells us, we might learn how to actually leave no child behind.