Barry Garelick (RC Mathematics, 1971) has a new book due out next month, Out on Good Behavior: Teaching Math While Looking Over Your Shoulder (John Catt Educational). He says, “It’s about my experiences teaching math a two schools in California and like my other (self-published) books, shows a healthy disrespect for what passes as effective teaching practices as well as the education establishment which propagate such nonsense. To current/prospective teachers as well as former and current math students: It will never be required reading in any ed school course, which is reason no. 1 for reading it.”
Barry teaches math in middle school as a second career and is deeply involved in math education advocacy. He has written articles on math education for The Atlantic, Education Next, Education News, and Heartlander. Barry was a presenter at the 2016 ResearchED conference at Oxford University, which was devoted to math/science teaching. Barry and his wife live in Morro Bay, California.
