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Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe about Our Schools--And Why It Isn't So
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Product Description
How can we fix America's floundering public schools? Conventional wisdom says that schools and teachers need a lot more money, that poor and immigrant children can't do as well as most American kids, that high-stakes tests just produce teaching to the test, and that vouchers do little to help students while undermining our democracy. But what if the conventional wisdom is wrong? Jay Greene provocatively shows that much of what people believe about education policy is little more than a series of myths advanced by the special interest groups dominating public education.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3314541 in Books
- Published on: 2006-08-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .1 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 273 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
This timely, plain-spoken, myth-demolishing book unmasks the self-interest, naivete and well-intended gullibility that lead Americans to embrace eighteen seductive assumptions about education that turn out to be false-and that block the promising reforms that our schools and children urgently need.--Finn, Chester E. Jr.
