Amy's Game: The Concealed Structure of Education

By Roger F. Bass

Amy's Game is a field manual for parents, teachers, and leaders who want to give our children the education they deserve. The author draws on over 30 years experience and hundreds of studies to expose education's hidden structure responsible for our schools' decline. Tactics for reversing that slide are given along with inexpensive, well-researched instructional methods that anyone-parent to professor-can use to improve our children's education.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419653474
• ISBN13: 9781419653476
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Must read!

This book is a must!! It shows step by step the systematic way of the education system in failing our kids, especially those who so much need this help. Education (not only in US) is unfortunately based on the slogan: "Don't confuse me with the facts".

What is wrong with US teaching; How to fix it!

ALL PARENTS, TEACHERS, TEACHER EDUCATORS, AND THERAPISTS SHOULD READ THIS INTRIGUING BOOK! I found it difficult to put down. In it, Roger Bass goes out on a limb to tell us what is wrong with education in the US, and how to fix it. As a teacher educator himself for over 30 years, he has witnessed the professionals in the schools who are caught up in a well-meaning system that uses short-lived fads (among other useless schemes) to try to improve education rather than science-driven, well-documented teaching strategies! Likewise as a teacher educator myself, I can vouch for his observations and the science we could use to improve our system. This book is an easy read for anyone who is interested in education. I can forgive Dr. Bass a few minor problems, because the most important thing is to forget about that and read the book. I will also forgive his omission of a few references to educational research programs with which I am very familiar, for the same reason. READ THIS BOOK AND TAKE UP THE CHALLENGE OF PRESSING FORWARD WITH EMPIRICALLY PROVEN TEACHING METHODS. INSIST THAT SCHOOLS EITHER USE THOSE OR DO RESEARCH ON THE METHODS THEY ESPOUSE THAT HAVE NEVER BEEN EXAMINED SCIENTIFICALLY! STUDY WHETHER OR NOT YOUR SCHOOL'S METHODOLOGY ACTUALLY TEACHES YOUR CHILD THE SKILLS THE SCHOOL SAYS ARE IMPORTANT.

A Must Read

Parents and teachers alike will appreciate this frank and well-researched book on the current state of education. The author's non-technical vocabulary and engaging style are woven around the real-life story of a child, Amy, who puts a human face on the larger issues raised. Those issues and concerns raised are matched with clear, affordable, common-sense solutions that are within the reach of those who care for and educate our children. Everyone with an interest in improving the quality of our children's education should read this book.