Inda Schaenen

A St. Louis resident since 1991, Inda Schaenen is a writer, journalist, professor, and certified English language arts teacher in the Normandy School District. She is the author of Speaking of Fourth Grade: What Listening to Kids Tells Us About School in America (The New Press), four young adult novels, and a parenting guide, The 7 O’Clock Bedtime. Her columns and essays have appeared in Salon, the St. Louis Beacon, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the anthology Mommy Wars.

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News and Reviews

Education Week

A piece by author Inda Schaenen in Education Week

Foreword Reviews

A review of Speaking of Fourth Grade in Foreword Reviews

Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly calls Speaking of Fourth Grade "an outlet for voices often overlooked in the debate about education in America."

Books by Inda Schaenen

Speaking of Fourth Grade
What Listening to Kids Tells Us About School in America

Inda Schaenen