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Nearby: 'Bad Teacher' John Owens at the Book Revue

Author to talk about what's wrong with public education.

By Pam Robinson

John Owens, author of "Confessions of a Bad Teacher: The Shocking Truth from the Front Lines of American Public Education," will speak at the Book Revue Tuesday.

Owens, who left a career in publishing to teach at a public school in the Bronx, told USA Today last week, "America has become so obsessed with test scores and other data that we believe we should focus only on academic subjects and "cut the fat." That's made so many schools just test-prep factories that are nothing like the public schools most of us attended."

His talk and book signing are scheduled for 7 p.m. 


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