Author: Wade H. Morris

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2023-09-26

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1421447169

"This book tells the story of American education by examining this unique element of student life. The author shows the evolution of how teachers, students, parents, and administrators responded to report cards. Report cards, he shows, were more than just a means by which a school documented each student's deportment, academic standing, and attendance. They were a tool of control, a microcosm for the changing power dynamics between teachers, parents, and students"--