Peter Sacks

Author of Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change It

About the Author

Peter Sacks is an author and social Critic who writes and speaks extensively on education and American culture. He is author of standardized Minds: The High price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change It and generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in show more postmodern America. His essays have appeared in the Nation, the Los Angeles times, the New York Times, and other Publications. show less

Works by Peter Sacks

Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America (1999) 77 copies, 1 review

Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education (2007) 39 copies, 1 review

Promised Lands (1990) 17 copies

Natal Command (Phoenix Poets Series) (1997) 11 copies

O Wheel: Poems (2000) 8 copies

Peter Sacks. Paintings. October 29 - December 12 (2009) 6 copies

Necessity: Poems (2003) 4 copies

"You Only Guide Me by Surprise": Poetry and the Dolphin's Turn (The Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lecture on the Teaching of Poetry) (2010) 3 copies

Libertyland (2024) 2 copies

Peter Sacks, New Works, April 5 - May 6, 2017 1 copy

Peter Sacks: Works / Oeuvres, 2003 - 2006 1 copy

Resistance (2022) 1 copy

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Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contributor — 157 copies, 2 reviews

Poems of Edward Thomas (1997) — Editor — 39 copies, 2 reviews

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Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education by Peter Sacks

The book uses interviews, vivid portraits, and statistics to analyze the ways public schools advantage the already advantaged and do a disservice to working and lower class students; moreover, it tells us a lot about the students who attend our college. Alexis N.

Jun 2, 2010

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Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America by Peter Sacks