What's Gone Wrong in America's Classrooms?

Essays in this volume identify key failures in modern American education and then show how parents, policymakers, and teachers can make changes that will raise the level of student performance. This book makes the case for content-rich education and explicit teaching.

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Eight papers selected from a February 1997 conference at the Hoover Institution identify key failures in modern American education. They make a case for content-rich education and explicit teaching and show how parents, policymakers, and teachers can make changes that will raise the level of student performance. Topics include the roots of current school reform ideas, why some children don't read, how to teach reading and spelling successfully, how current American attitudes towards learning block achievement in math and science, and the perils and pitfalls of testing student achievement. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.