A career spent in classrooms
Vincent B. Troiano taught for the Old Bridge Township School System in New Jersey for 36 years. He spent nine years teaching grades 4–6 and 27 years in special education, beginning in self-contained classes with students then identified as Emotionally Disturbed.
That long classroom career is the foundation of The Silent Voice in Education: The Importance of Involving Classroom Teachers. Troiano’s central concern is the distance that can develop between policy decisions and the day-to-day judgment required to teach individual students.
His writing draws on decades of classroom experience and focuses on the practical consequences of education policy for teachers and students.
The Silent Voice in Education
Published by Rowman & Littlefield on November 27, 2018, the book covers the 1960s reform era, local leadership, special education, classroom management, teacher evaluation, IEPs, local control, and individual instruction.
Official book record: Paperback ISBN 9781475848458 · Hardback ISBN 9781475848441 · Ebook ISBN 9781475848465.
View the Rowman & Littlefield / Bloomsbury publisher page or buy the book.
Areas of focus
Teacher Voice & Education Reform
Who should shape classroom decisions, and how practitioner experience fits into policy.
Special EducationSpecial Education & Individual Instruction
IEPs, classroom management, bureaucracy, and the continuous judgments teachers make.
MathematicsNew Math & Arithmetic
Mid-century math reform, number facts, fluency, and algebra readiness.
Education HistoryHistory of American Education Reform
The broader historical setting for reforms discussed in the book and essays.
Recent essays
New Leadership in Education
Troiano’s perspective on how outside influences began reshaping elementary education in the 1950s and 1960s.
Education HistoryWhatever Happened to Arithmetic?
A teacher’s perspective on the rise of New Math and the decline of traditional arithmetic in elementary classrooms.