"For policymakers, parents and anyone concerned about the dismantling of one of our democracy's great institutions."
A noted education authority launches a stout defense of the public school system and a sharp attack on the so-called reformers out to wreck them.
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"Of tremendous importance to parents, educational reformers, and anyone concerned with the myriad failings of the present culture."
Johnny and Janie can't read, can't find the Pacific on a map, can't even think—all thanks to official censorship that "represents a systemic breakdown of our ability to educate the next generation."
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"An incisive examination of failed utopian schemes in the classroom."
Former Assistant Secretary of Education Ravitch (The Troubled Crusade, 1983) recounts a dispiriting record of pitched debates and failed reform attempts in the American educational system over the last century.
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